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Partnership information

Description

Hotel day imageAims

Covering the Thames Valley area, the i-work DP aimed to promote life long learning and inclusive work practices which provide positive support to non-traditional marginalised learners and low-skilled groups. i-work developed tools and methods to help disadvantaged groups into sustainable employment and tackle the barriers to learning, employment, motivation and self esteem.

Objectives

The DP operated on four key objectives:
  • Raising awareness of the benefits of social responsibility among employers

  • Developing a social recruitment company

  • Encouraging the development of Job rotation for the upskilling of low skilled workers

  • Developing career focusing/soft skill learning material.
Background

Although unemployment in the Thames Valley region was generally low at the time of the DP forming, there were wards in all the major towns with significantly higher levels of unemployment. Some of these areas are in the 5% most deprived wards in the EU. The DP was formed as a response to some transnational research about how to tackle unemployment in these circumstances. The DP was formed to look at those who were most difficult to place into employment.

Round

1

Lead partner

Reading Borough Council
www.reading.gov.uk

Core partners

3 L Research Ltd, Association of Councils in the Thames Valley (High Wycombe), Aylesbury Vale District Council, Berkshire Employment Service, Berkshire Learning and Skills Council, Buckinghamshire County Council, Buckinghamshire Learning and Skills Council, Business in the Community Spotlight on Bletchley, Business Link Berkshire and Wiltshire, CDI Group, Central Berkshire Education Business Partnership, CFBT (Berkshire Careers Service), Fortis Bank, Milton Keynes Council, Milton Keynes Women and Work, MK Snap, Moorplace Hotel, Oxford City Council, Oxford Community Development Agency, Oxfordshire County Council, Parkside Hotel, Reading College, Reading Commission for Racial Equality, Reading Community Development Agency, Reading Lifelong Learning Partnership, Resource Mental Health Project, Southern Tourist Board, Thames Valley Social Enterprise Hub, Tourism Better Business Scheme, Training Employment and Advice Shop

Transnational partnerships

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Contact

Anne Pearce, Reading Borough Council,

End-dates

Action 2: 16 September 2005
Action 3: 14 November 2005

Equal theme

Lifelong learning and inclusive working practices

Beneficiaries

16-17-year-olds in danger of exclusion from school, Jobseekers with low basic skills, People from disadvantaged areas (top 10% most deprived wards)
Total beneficiaries: The DP had an original aim of 390 beneficiaries, but achieved over 1400.

Achievements

The project impacted in the following areas:
  • Looking at new ways to engage non traditional learners into learning , eg. Work relevant training, embedded soft and basic skills
  • Breaking barriers to employers working with Corporate Social Responsibility enabling the recruitment and retention of non traditional groups
  • Interagency working and seamless provision

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Connections

Connections

Activities and products

Activity
DIRECT - Work Placement in the Hotels and Catering Industry DIRECT - Work Placement in the Hotels and Catering Industry.Expand/collapse Products (3)
Activity
GRAFT Graft is a partnership of local organisations providing information and support to employers regarding employing disabled people, as well as to disabled candidates looking for work.Expand/collapse Products (1)
Activity
Horticultural Project West Berkshire Council in partnership with Newbury College and West Berkshire Mencap are developing a horticultural training project based at Cottismore Park where we have a use of a large commercial sized greenhouse.Expand/collapse Products (2)
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Interagency Protocol The aim of this project was to help and assist agencies working together to create and develop positive interagency interaction, all with a view to offering a more quality driven and coordinated approach to working with those on the margins in society: drug users, homeless, offenders and asylum seekers.Expand/collapse Products (1)
Activity
Job CarvingA challenge for employers today is how to increase business competitiveness in some areas and strengthen their workforce.Expand/collapse Products (3)
Activity
Lamda CATThe Lamda CAT is a computerised programme tool that graphically illustrates the differences between two nominated sets of responses to a set of 25 randomly delivered questions.Expand/collapse Products (3)
Activity
Rose Tinted Productions, Morpheus TheatreThat inclusiveness breeds diversity and that as theatre non-professionals, volunteers, and audience members, we are innovators and explorers...
Activity
SOL - Self Organised Learning Self-Organised Learning empowers individuals teams and organisations to take responsibility for their own learning and to put this learning into successful action.Expand/collapse Products (6)
Activity
STEPS Gardening Project There was a need for a centre which would take care of people who had suffered from a mental illness and wanted to return to every-day life.Expand/collapse Products (3)
Activity
The Challenge Often clients would arrive at Lamda3 lacking energy and therefore the ability to concentrate during training sessions.Expand/collapse Products (3)
DVD
The Hotel Experience DVD The Hotel Experience DVD shows how barriers to employment can be broken down by running an event that brings disabled people and employers together to demonstrate the benefits of promoting diversity.Expand/collapse Products (3)
Activity
The Learning Workout The learning workout is a 4 week programme designed to exercise the mind of beneficiaries , increase motivation and help them into employment. It was recognized that many clients lacked the essential tools that will make them more attractive to a potential employer.Expand/collapse Products (7)
Activity
Tower Revived Café Generally, people with various kind of disabilities tend to have limited control over their own lives which results in limited life experience and opportunities, living in institutional care setting and attending Day Centres.Expand/collapse Products (2)
Print
CSR Employers ToolkitCSR Employers Toolkit.
CD-ROM
Making a differencei-work conference presentation, September 2005.
DVD
Untapped WorkforceWhat is the true business potential of recruiting disabled employees? I-work produced the Untapped Workforce DVD where employers and employees with real experience discuss the benefits of promoting diversity.
Website
Virtual School Web siteLearning Repository for tools developed under the Sapiens Transnational partnership. Virtual School Web site is a transnational partnership
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