HELIOS DP

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HELIOS DP

• Hammers Thongs

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DP Members

• Triax (Lead Organisation)
• DEL
• NWIFHE
• Business in the Community
• Women in Enterprise
• Bogside Brandywell Initiative
• Creggan Neighbourhood Partnership

• West Bank Initiative
• Bogside Brandywell Womens Group
• Derry City Council
• Gasyard Wall Feile
• Social Security Agency
• CITB
• INGAGE
• Equality Commission

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Issue Equal Opportunities

• Construction trades and skills are
  predominantly male dominated. The non-integration
  of women in skilled trades serves to maintain
  skill shortages and reinforce the gender gap in
  earnings.
• NI figures clearly indicate the lack of female
  participation in trade occupations, and their
  earnings differentials.

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HELIOS DP

• Helios Development Partnership (DP) will promote
  efforts to overcome barriers to womens equal
  participation in such gender-segregated jobs.
• We intend this project to work towards enhancing
  and modifying the approach taken to attracting
  women onto training programmes for
  non-traditional trades.
• We envisage that the programme could have the
  potential to influence policy and add value to
  existing practices regarding apprenticeship/traine
  eship policy and work placements.

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DP Objectives

• Equal Opportunities Empowerment are core to
  ethos, principles and practice of all members of
  the Project
• Review, and develop enhanced appreciation of,
  policies and practice
• Review, and develop enhanced awareness of,
  barriers
• Provide an innovative supported training
  programme for women considering further training
  and eventual employment in construction trades
• Provide a gender specific Equal Opportunities
  awareness programme for tutors

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DP Objectives

• Develop practical lessons of what works (or
  doesnt) and disseminate learning
• Develop and propose policy and practice
  improvements
• Work with DEL and other related organisations to
  review, and add value to, any Government policies
  regarding modern apprenticeship/ traineeship
  requirements and frameworks
• Seek to establish more effective pathways to
  reduce existing barriers experienced by women
  attempting entry to non-traditional trades.

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ACTION 1

• During Action 1 Helios will be developed as an
  inclusive, open and transparent Equal
  Opportunities DP, undertaking actions such as
• develop strategic/ delivery plans
• research local labour market consult and involve
  potential beneficiaries in planning and design
• prepare to recruit beneficiaries
• undertake Equality Training through the Equality
  Commission
• devise Equal Opportunities policy/strategy and an
  EO attitudinal survey for trainers
• identify meet Transnational partners to develop
  a Transnational Co-operation Agreement.

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Action 2

• Training
• Enrolling 24 women, aged 18, in training
• Year 1 comprising 3 x 12 week construction trade
  samplers
• In Year 2 participants concentrate for 36 weeks
  on a chosen trade specialism.
• Support Guidance
• Training needs assessment of all
  participant/trainers
• Continual support for participants while on the
  programme
• Benefits advice for participants
• Careers guidance for participants
• Guidance on self-employment.

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Action 2

• Face-to-Face Forum
• 4 meetings per year monitoring progress to shape
  future actions
• Raise confidence and abilities of participants
• Develop Action 3 activities dissemination/mainst
  reaming of lessons learned from training
  programme.
• Awareness Training for Trainers
• Attitudinal survey applied to trainers at
  beginning and end of project
• Targeted training for tutors on issues of
  equality,
• discrimination and gender.

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Action 2

• Digital Diary Room
• Allowing both participants and tutors to express
  their views on process and the training
  experience
• Production of 3 DVDs to highlight the issues that
  impede womens entry into training for, and
  employment in, construction trades.
• Helios comprises a number of organisations that
  have wide experience of supporting individuals
  and groups. There are two target groups that will
  be supported women participants and NWIFHE
  tutors who are all men with a background in the
  construction industry.

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Action 3

• Research and develop a focused Learning Report
• Disseminate results and use as a lobbying tool to
  effect policy change where appropriate
• Meet with decision-makers and key influencers
  regarding findings and implications
• Complete evaluation of Action 3
• Development of a final DVD to raise awareness of
  issues affecting women entering training for
  non-traditional trades.

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Contact Details
Helios DP Administration Block Iona
Enterprises Southway Derry BT48 9LH Tel No 028
7136 1419
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