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General Needs Housing Employment Compact
Training December 2009
Why is the Compact being put in place?
Housing organisations have a unique position to engage with their tenants (and families) to encourage them to move towards employment
Raising incomes can also: - widen people’s housing choices- increase confidence and reduce isolation - improve mental health- reduce domestic violence and other forms of abuse - create safer and more stable communities - increase input into houses and flats
Costs of unemployment are felt by individuals, council tax payers, city council, and government
Unemployment in Newcastle
Newcastle residents at end of 2008: 27.4% of people of working age were
economically inactive - 21.2% in the country as a whole
8.9% were unemployed - 5.7% across the whole country
Council tenants in Newcastle at Sept 09 9.9% are unemployed
Unemployment amongst social housing tenants
55% of working age social housing tenants are economically inactive – compared to 21.1% of general population (Sept 09)
Social housing tenants are 15% of working age population but 30% of workless
The worklessness rate in social housing is twice that in the owner occupied sector
People unemployed in 1994 were more than twice as likely to still be unemployed ten years later if they were social tenants
Newcastle’s Local Area Agreement
National Indicator 152: To reduce the proportion of residents of
working age who are on out-of-work benefits to 14.9% by March 2011
Baseline is 16.3% in 2007
Newcastle’s Employability Action Plan 2008-2011
Priorities are: Engagement at all stages along the pathway
– priority groups are harder-to-reach groups (including homeless), young people, lone parents, people from BME groups, and people in Incapacity Benefit
Progression sustained Holistic 1-1 support
Other drivers
Welfare reform – people will need to be able to demonstrate that they are moving towards work – or face reduced benefit
Adding value to the other work of housing providers
Building links with other agencies
Our aims
1. Developing clear progression pathways towards employment for social housing (and supported ) residents:- engagement - training- education- employment
2. Same minimum level of help regardless of which landlord or support provider
Our aims
3. Ensure housing staff know how and where to refer residents to
4. Ensure opportunities offered within the housing sector are available to all
5. Be able to demonstrate the outcomes from the offer of help from housing providers
The client journey
ENGAGEMENT DIAGNOSTICS
Employer Involvement
EMPLOYABILITY SERVICES
JOB PLACEMENT RETENTION
Pre - engagement
Stability Phase
The offer for social housing residents
Ask all unemployed tenants in first 6 weeks if they want help to get involved in education, training or employment
Use other opportunities to introduce the idea of moving towards work
Help people to overcome barriers to work, and to develop their skills, confidence, and motivation
Make referrals to Newcastle Futures or other services Display information about access to employment and
skills provision Monitor outcomes – so we know if the approach is
helping
Our partners Tackling worklessness: Newcastle Futures –
employment support agency targeting most disadvantaged and hardest to reach, and strategic co-ordination role
Supporting people into independence: Supporting People – fulfilling government expectations
Housing providers JobCentre Plus and Connexions Welfare Rights Service