Transcript Supported Housing Employment Compact

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
Stability Phase
Pre engagement
ENGAGEMENT
DIAGNOSTICS
EMPLOYABILITY
SERVICES
JOB
PLACEMENT
RETENTION
Employer Involvement
The offer for social housing
residents
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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