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Employment & Training

Phil Miles, Director of Regeneration & Communities at Cymorth Cymru, highlights key lessons and strategies from Affinity Sutton's Community Investment Programme. The program focuses on empowering residents through employment and training initiatives, financial inclusion efforts, and neighborhood investment. With £5 million annual funding, the Work & Enterprise team has overseen 300 projects, providing vital support such as employability workshops, job brokerage, and apprenticeships. This presentation outlines the program's evolution, challenges, and future directions in fostering community resilience and economic opportunity.

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Employment & Training

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  1. Employment & Training Phil Miles, Director of Regeneration & Communities Cymorth Cymru, 17th November 2011

  2. Affinity Sutton • Community Investment programme • Employment & Training • Some key lessons • Where we’re going • Work Programme

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Work & Enterprise • Volunteering – ‘growing our own’ • Grants • Business start-up • 3200 supported, 1210 into work and training • 25 staff

  6. External contracts • ‘Stepping Up’ 1 & 2 - homeless families • ‘Pathways4Cray’ – Gypsy Travellers • ‘Affinity Futures’ – single parents • ‘Personal Best’ – volunteering at the Olympics • FJF • Work Programme

  7. Training • IT • Gardening • Nail & beauty • Fashion • Football coaching • DIY • H&S • First Aid • Food Hygiene • ‘Growing our own’ • Debt & Employment Advisor courses

  8. 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

  9. 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’

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

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