How do we do ‘it’?

Lessons learnt

Achievements to date

Sense of Place

Trainee’s post GM Procure

Success essentials

Improving Community Benefits

+ =Labour value Trainees Training NVQ Level 2

How do we do it?

+ =Labour value Trainees Training NVQ Level 2

FJF – six months prior

Added Volume and Diversity

Based on skills assessment

NVQ Level 3

Consultancy

Start/Complete NVQ Level 3

Lessons learnt

GM Procure is committed to re-investing volume cost savings directly back into local businesses, employment and training

2 trainees per £m labour value and 35% from a non-traditional background

Every year we will help create and support 2 community enterprise Sense of Place projects – 1:3 leverage

Achievements to date

Integrators

153 new trainee jobs – 58 new opportunities this year.

High audited retention

43% distant from the labour market

Trainees

Social Enterprise

Top 50 prolific offenders

Assessment centre

Interview

Risk assessment

Day trial

3 week work placement

Employment and Training

Ongoing support

Move on

Partnerships & Process

Small Business Support

Targets: Sustainable Communities• Support investments in our neighbourhoods• Improve local community involvement• Increase community safety• Reduce anti-social behaviour issues • Improve personal safety• Raise pride in our neighbourhoods

Collaboration : look for the added value

Tender process

• local businesses• college course requirements • probation service• ILM’s• work experience opportunity

Sense of Place update

16 successful bids

Total value projects £1,800,000

Sense of Place support £398k

Each project demonstrating how it: impacts on GM Procure regeneration aims meets community priorities

Increasing community safety,

reducing ASB issues

Supports existing investment in our neighbourhoods

Reducing ASB

Designated parking areas have been created where previously the open area was a ‘hot spot’

The local school children have designed colourful paving that will be used to enhance the communal areas

Local community involvement

Personal safety

Raising pride in our neighbourhoods

Tenant Led

Opened June 2009

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90 people engaged with skills development process, undertaking 82 activities.

95% receiving ongoing support

Trainee’s post GM Procure

Professional skills development

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Skills Development for existing professional construction employees

Skills Development is NOT about ‘pestering’ an employer to put someone on a course to tick the box

Skills development means protecting the employer’s investment in existing staff

This is achieved:Through promoting the Professional Review, Professional Membership, and Continuing Professional Development, the exemplar for existing professional staffBy offering bespoke research service to identify training to address specific needs of the role

Tenant Involvement Panel Represented on Working groups TIP COG GMP Board Tenant Inspectors Reader Panel Tenant Training Tenant Annual Conference New OJEU process

Key To SuccessMaterials sourced nationally – best possible choice

Local contractors – supporting local economy and communities

Working in partnership

Thank You