More about Economy
We are promoting the financial inclusion of all residents and encouraging working households to stay in the city. This workstream is about analysing the levels of worklessness and looking at causes and potential solutions.
Key issues
Our key issues are:
We will provide appropriate and timely information, intelligence and performance-monitoring on worklessness, and strategic activities to tackle it.
We will review organisational health indicators to reflect workforce diversity and local recruitment from target groups such as unemployed people, Incapacity Benefit claimants, lone parents, people over 50, and people from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities.
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Influencing the supply chain
Registered providers are significant procurers of goods and services. We can use our own procurement criteria to ‘grow our own’ and extend workforce diversity and recruitment. The public sector includes many unskilled workers. By skilling-up workers we can improve our own organisations and encourage by employee recruitment, progression and retention.
The transfer of council estates to new not-for-profit companies is bringing local employment benefits. See IMPACT Manchester and GM Procure for example.
We will review other housing providers’ practices to develop local training and employment initiatives through the Social Housing Local Employment Partnership.
Co-ordinating Future Job Fund trainee placements with registered providers will create employment and training for local people who would contribute to the community. For example the Environmental Team in Cheetham Hill is supported by eight providers, co-ordinated by the Groundwork Trust.