North Wales agency looks to get people back into work

A TRAINING and employment specialist has been awarded the Economically Inactive Families contact from the Big Lottery Fund.
In order to deliver the contract, A4e is recruiting six new personal career coaches to support the success of the scheme.
The contract will be delivered in Wrexham and Rhyl and will run over three years.
A4e will work with families for 12 months and it is anticipated that there will be 367 participants throughout the course.
Julie Dyer, operations manager for A4e Wales, said: “By working with families as a whole we hope to build support systems and break the economic inactivity cycle for future generations.”
Success of the delivery will be measured by a range of key performance indicators (KPIs). These include encouraging 17% of participants to gain an NVQ level 1, 2 above, 18% of participants to take part in further learning and working with participants to ensure that over half gain basic skills qualifications

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The Careers Information Advice and Guidance project will assist unemployed people, offering specialist, tailored advice that helps them get new jobs and climb the employment ladder.
Led by Careers Wales, the project is backed with £2.4m from the Convergence European Social Fund through the Welsh Assembly Government.
Among the services it will offer is support with identifying skills, writing CVs, job searches, career development, job interview techniques and job application form workshops.

Source:- WAG

Coming soon ……..Bus project to support the Economically Inactive

In recognition that no one agency can deliver services in isolation South West Rhyl Communities First in partnership with a number of welfare to work agencies intend to develop an inclusive flexible multi agency, mobile one stop shop that will address economic inactivity in both Rhyl South West, Rhyl West and Communities First areas in Conwy where it has been identified that some of the communities may benefit from such a service.

Making the service mobile is key in that it will be accessed by residents in the proposed areas close to their homes

Partner collaboration and local joint activity is the key feature of the programme bringing together a package of support for workless people and people on low incomes

It will provide an information and advice service to residents and work towards reducing the number of unemployed and economically inactive in the areas and will address in part service delivery improvements by bringing services to the people as opposed to the current system of people who may have multiple barriers to accessing several service providers scattered around the towns of Denbighshire & Conwy.

One member of staff will be employed to manage and deliver the project and sustainability of the project will be achieved by generating income from hire when the bus is not in use.
SWRCF has been successful in securing funding from Conwy & Denbighshire Community Cohesion funds and Strategic Regeneration funding to purchase the bus and have it refurbished and are submitting an outcomes fund application.

Debbie Holmes – Development Officer at SWRCF said “ The project arose as a need from consultation with residents and has taken sometime to develop and to get buy in from agencies but believes that the resource will be a valuable source of information and advice for residents and help those that are economically inactive to gain the skills and tools they need for entering or re-entering the workplace. Partnership working and programme bending with Denbighshire County Council has enabled SWRCF to purchase and refurbish the bus.”