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Employment & Training . Phil Miles, Director of Regeneration & Communities . Cymorth Cymru, 17 th November 2011. Affinity Sutton Community Investment programme Employment & Training Some key lessons Where we’re going Work Programme . Community Investment.
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Employment & Training Phil Miles, Director of Regeneration & Communities Cymorth Cymru, 17th November 2011
Affinity Sutton • Community Investment programme • Employment & Training • Some key lessons • Where we’re going • Work Programme
Community Investment • Supporting residents into employment & training – ‘Work & Enterprise’ team • Tackling financial exclusion – ‘Financial Inclusion’ • Supporting Communities – ‘Neighbourhood Investment’ • Overseen by Community Foundation • £5m pa, 50 staff • 300 projects
Work & Enterprise – what we do • Support - engagement, 1-1 support, employability workshops, job clubs, training, volunteering • Find and provide jobs – apprenticeships, employer engagement, job brokerage, work placements • ‘GuideLine’ • External funding contracts
Work & Enterprise • Volunteering – ‘growing our own’ • Grants • Business start-up • 3200 supported, 1210 into work and training • 25 staff
External contracts • ‘Stepping Up’ 1 & 2 - homeless families • ‘Pathways4Cray’ – Gypsy Travellers • ‘Affinity Futures’ – single parents • ‘Personal Best’ – volunteering at the Olympics • FJF • Work Programme
Training • IT • Gardening • Nail & beauty • Fashion • Football coaching • DIY • H&S • First Aid • Food Hygiene • ‘Growing our own’ • Debt & Employment Advisor courses
Lessons • leadership & commitment • decide on level of intervention – deliver? signpost? provide a niche service? fund partners to do it? • recruit people with the right background • start small and build up • work with partners • use accreditation to improve
Lessons • provide travel/childcare/welfare benefits advice • fund yourself if possible - external funding comes with strings • use frontline to market and refer • leverage your own HR and supply chain • do it by stealth eg. ‘Passion4fashion’
What we’re currently doing • Setting up a core funded national service • More apprenticeships • Looking at our graduate programme and entry level posts • Bursaries for young people • Expanding volunteering • Using our hubs • Work Programme
Work Programme • 8 year programme starting June 11 • Expected to result in reduction in welfare bill • Mandatory – severe sanctions for non-engagement • Payments by results with emphasis on sustainment • Bigger rewards for the most difficult cases • Freedom to do what you want • Have to work with the ‘Prime’ contractor in your area
Considerations • HA’s well placed & your residents will be going through this anyway • Level of involvement depends on your experience, stock profile and appetite for risk • Can sub-contract or deliver a niche area of support or simply sign-post • Potential rewards but also big risks – volumes, performance & cashflow • Are there enough jobs out there? • Impact of welfare reform and affordable rent regime
Reduce your risk eg. consortia’s, negotiate more up front, deliver niche element (eg. mental health) • Find out who your local ‘Prime’ is and meet with them • Ask how you can support provision eg. provide premises, marketing • Encourage your suppliers to provide placements • Support and inform your residents • Its early days