the Worklessness Collaborative
Information about the Worklessness Collaborative.From the NELC website…
Commissioned directly by the Change Board and launched in July 2009, a 14-month Worklessness Collaborative Pilot was established. The collaborative focus is currently being developed in two areas of Grimsby – South and East Marsh wards – with a planned extension to other areas if the pilot proves to be successful.
The Worklessness Collaborative programme centres on the development of community teams and builds on the success of the Care Trust Plus Early Presentation of Cancer Symptoms, Older People’s Health and Wellbeing and the ‘Falls’ programmes. Local residents and service providers are working through a training programme with the aim of then being able to use their new skills to:
- inspire other individuals to achieve personal changes,
- enabling them to access appropriate work,
- reduce dependence on benefits and increase the overall profitability in the two wards
Visit the page on the NELC website here.
The Worklessness Collaborative is being piloted in East Marsh and South Wards of Grimsby. Read about the Collaborative from the East Marsh Involve perspective here:
The Worklessness Collaborative is being piloted in the East Marsh and South Wards of Grimsby. The aim of the programme is to reduce child poverty, improve worklessness statisics and increase economic well being and the profitability of the two wards. It also aims to raise awareness of what excisting help is already available for people to access ensuring no duplication takes place.
The collaborative model has begun to work by engaging groups of local residents who have an interest in improving employability within the two areas. Up to now teams consisting of both local residents and service providers have been holding meetings, attending workshops and beginning to take the message out into the community with the aim of:
-Increasing engagement/interaction with the programme
-Increasing the availibility of new jobs
-Demonstrating partnership working by working with other agencies to develop new employment oppertunities
-Increasing referrals to the key workers programme
-Increasing utilisation of other framework programmes
-Increasing confidence in individuals to access what is in excistance for them
-Increasing the number in regular volunteering roles
-Increasing publicity for the programme by using media oppertunities in a proactive manner
For further details contact Alan Burley on 07862277435
Reread this article here and visit the East Marsh Involve website here.
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