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Employment and Housing Alliance Project in West London for Social Housing Tenants

The Employment and Housing Alliance Project aims to address worklessness and low skills among social housing tenants in West London. Through referrals and training, the project supports individuals in gaining employment and accessing housing services.

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Employment and Housing Alliance Project in West London for Social Housing Tenants

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  1. Background • Came out of finding of Hills Report: ie a high level of worklessness and low level of skills among social housing tenants and that social housing can become reason for people remaining on benefits. In TA, high rents are a barrier to mobility and aspiration • Links worklessness and homelessness by training frontline staff to refer customers into Information, Advice and Guidance, (IAG) provision

  2. First EHO Trailblazer and focuses on TA, those with a housing need and latterly social housing • Funded by CLG: initially a 2-year pilot to September ’09. Received EHO Kickstart funding Apr 09 from CLG to embed culture change. Will run to Mar ’11 • Is essentially a change management project • Works across 7 West London boroughs; Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, RBKC • Has good links with West London Working

  3. Features • Staff raise conversation about employment and training aspirations and make a referral to identified IAG provider with client present • Web-based database to refer clients and track and monitor progressions and outcomes. Sits on Locata server; records Yes’ and the Nos’ and client journey. Is a case management and information management tool • IAG providers support clients eg: CV, Job search, refer to training, interview technique, employability skills or refer on

  4. Outcomes to date: • 2658 people have said Yes to referral to training and employment • 1911 have said No • 65 into training • 763 lone parents referred have said yes • 27 lone parents in work

  5. Promoting in work and back- to-work benefits • Arranging training in use of JCP ‘Better-Off-Calculator’ for IAG advisors, frontline staff in local authorities and RSLs • Seeks to influence allocations policies across the sub-region via steering groups. • 36 lone parents in LBHF have been transferred to permanent properties through gaining employment

  6. Other developments • Steering groups established in all boroughs: Family Information Services represented • Links with other sub-regional projects made • HELP is linking with other EHO London boroughs and EHO projects nationally • Yr 1 Evaluation report published • CLG monitoring project closely for possible roll-out

  7. Contact: Billy Seago Seagob@ealing.gov.uk Tel: 020 88225 5142 Mob: 07985161735

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