Transcript Supported Housing Employment Compact

Supported Housing
Employment Compact
Training December 2009
Why is the Compact
being put in place?
 Helping homeless people to increase their
incomes by getting into work prevents
homelessness for the long term
 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
 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
Short term supported housing residents in 08-09:
 44% job seekers
 24% not looking for work
 22% sick or disabled
Homelessness and
worklessness
Unemployment rate has got much worse for
homeless people over last 20 years:
 Around 85% of single homeless not in
work
 In temp. accom: 65% homeless families,
57% under 18s out of work (2005 figures)
 Six out of ten homeless people have low
or no qualifications
Public Sector Agreements
 PSA 16: to increase the proportion of
socially excluded adults in settled
accommodation and employment,
education or training
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
Places of Change programme
 Places of help to make changes: help
people to make the changes needed to be
able to live independently
 Physical changes: £8.5m investment in
hostel redevelopment in the city
 Changes in approach: Overcome
barriers to housing and to work; and get
involved in meaningful activities
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
supported housing providers in addressing
worklessness
 Building links with other agencies
Our aims
1. Developing clear progression pathways
towards employment for supported
housing (and social) 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
Stability Phase
Pre engagement
ENGAGEMENT
DIAGNOSTICS
EMPLOYABILITY
SERVICES
JOB
PLACEMENT
RETENTION
Employer Involvement
The offer for supported housing
residents (homeless sector)
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Ask all supported housing customers if they want help
to get involved in education, training or employment
Use the Support Plan to help people to identify their
goals, strength and weaknesses
Help people to overcome barriers to work, and to
develop their skills, confidence, and motivation – and
to get involved in meaningful activities
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
 Supported housing providers
 JobCentre Plus and Connexions
 Welfare Rights Service