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Delivering change: What Housing Associations can tell us about employment and skills
By
Maire Williams
| 2 June 2015
Delivering change: What Housing Associations can tell us about employment and skills
By
Maire Williams
| 2 June 2015
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Executive Summary
Introduction
The skills and unemployment challenges facing cities
Box Figure 1: Unemployment rate and proportion of working age population with no qualifications, 2013
Box Box 2: Level 1 qualifications significantly reduce the likelihood of unemployment
The skills and unemployment challenge within cities
Box Figure 3: Share of population with no qualifications and share living in social housing in urban Medium Super Output Areas (MSOA), 2011
Box Figure 4: Unemployment and the share of the population in social housing in urban Medium Super Output Areas (MSOA), 2011
Instability of the skills and employment landscape
Box Box 3: Key areas of recent skills policy change
Housing associations and skills provision
Box Generating demand for workers is vital – cities can use their networks to create and fund job and training opportunities
Box Case study 1: A2domionon, London and the South East
Box Case study 2: Wakefield District Housing (WDH)
Box Long-term relationships and local delivery allow for tailored individual support to help participants move into employment and for continued support to be given to help people remain and progress in work
Box Case study 3: Wolverhampton Homes
Box Case study 4: The Bromford Group
Box Case study 5: The Guinness Partnership (East Midlands and the North of England)
Box Case study 6: Great Places, Manchester
Box Data sharing and robust evaluation of projects are needed to implement successful programmes
Box Case study 7: Hyde Plus, South East, the East of England and the East Midlands
Box Case study 8: Jobs-Plus (America)
Conclusions
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1: Primary Urban Area (PUAs) and Key Cities
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