HELP: Tackling worklessness and homelessness
The Housing Employment Link Project (HELP) is funded by Communities and Local Government until March 2009. The project works across seven West London boroughs: Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
HELP will work with West London’s Housing Needs Officers to equip them with the skills to signpost customers in housing need and those living in temporary accommodation into training and employment opportunities. Utilising their contact time with a traditionally hard-to-help client group, Housing Needs Officers will discuss employment and training aspirations with their customers, linking them to local training and Information, Advice and Guidance, (IAG) providers.
The project will also work with staff from Housing Associations and private sector managing agents that manage temporary accommodation to signpost their tenants to employment and training provision.
In addition, HELP will work with identified training providers to raise awareness of the barriers faced by those living in temporary accommodation in accessing employment and training. By adopting this innovative approach, it is hoped that residents living in
temporary accommodation or otherwise in housing need, will access skills and employability training and support and move into sustainable employment.
For further information please email HELP Project Manager, Billy Seago,SeagoB@ealing.gov.uk. Tel: 020 8825 5142
HELP database
Last updated: 17 October 2008