Northside Partnership

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Northside Partnership

• Tesco Clarehall
• Regeneration Programme

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Tesco Clare Hall Regeneration Programme

• Initial point of contact with Tesco 1997
• Planning approved in 1999
• Partnership approached by Tesco in 2002 regarding
  an employment regeneration programme for the area

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Tesco Clare Hall Regeneration Programme

• Tesco committed to recruiting up to 100 long-term
  unemployed from Partnership area
• Partnership established Project Strategy Group
  and brought FAS Mandate Trade Union on broad as
  key project partners

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Tesco Clare Hall Regeneration Programme

• Role of Strategy group was to agree the resources
  and structure required to deliver the programme
• It was agreed that 24 week programme would be
  delivered to accommodate 80 participants

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Tesco Clare Hall Regeneration Programme

• NSP appointed member of staff to Co-ordinate and
  Manage the programme on a fulltime basis
• This was critical in ensuring
• Co-ordination of services from partner
  organisations
• NSP clients were targeted for participation
• Continuity of service delivery quality

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Tesco Clare Hall Regeneration Programme

• Operations Group Established
• NSP Project Manager/Local Employment Service
• FAS Curriculum Development Training Services
• Mandate Trade Union
• Independent Chair
• Tesco project co-ordinator

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Tesco Clare Hall Regeneration Programme

• Recruitment Co-ordinated by NSP
• 34,000 leaflet drop
• Advertising in local newspaper
• Local Employment Service referrals
• Dept of Social Family Affairs
• 2 meetings of Community Groups and organisations
• 12 information sessions

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Tesco Clare Hall Regeneration Programme

• Recruitment results
• 237 enquiries
• 160 attending 12 information workshops
• 148 sat aptitude testing (literacy numeracy)
• 144 were offered places

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Tesco Clare Hall Regeneration Programme

• Client Profile by Length of time unemployed
• 86 unemployed for up to 5 years
• 12 unemployed between 5-10 years
• 2 unemployed between 10-15 years

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Tesco Clare Hall Regeneration Programme

• Client profile by unemployment status
• 38 in receipt of Unemployment Assistance (long
  term unemployed)
• 23 in receipt of Unemployment Benefit
• 11 in receipt of One Parent Family Payment
• 11 referred from labour market intervention
  programmes
• 14 signing for credits (women returners)
• 3 in receipt of disability allowance

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Tesco Clare Hall Regeneration Programme

• NSP has 9 priority district areas
• Investment and resources prioritised into these
  areas
• 54 of participants from priority areas

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PARTICIPANT BY AGE PROFILE
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Tesco Clare Hall Regeneration Programme

• Training
• 4 weeks Integration Skills Training
• Interview followed completion of this phase
• Acceptance onto 20 week traineeship
• Traineeship comprised of 5 weeks workshop based
  training, 5 weeks in-company, 5 weeks workshop
  based training and finally 5 weeks in-company
• If client successfully completed these stages the
  original
• conditional letter of offer transferred to an
  offer of
• employment within the TESCO store.

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Tesco Clare Hall Regeneration Programme

• Integration Skills training included
• Understanding Tesco values
• Personal motivational STEPS programme
• Communication Skills
• Manual Handling
• Interview Skills

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Tesco Clare Hall Regeneration Programme

• Retail Sales Traineeship
• Retail Sales support skills
• Sales techniques
• Hygiene, safety and security
• Customer relations
• Each of the 4 stages required the participant to
  sit and pass an examination for certification
  (FETAC)

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Tesco Clare Hall Regeneration Programme

• In-company Training
• Complete work based training manuals
• Supported from trained Tesco staff coaches
• Manuals signed off and used as part of
  certification process

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Tesco Clare Hall Regeneration Programme

• Ongoing support
• Intensive one to one support provided by Local
  Employment Service mediators throughout the
  process
• Weekly meetings between NSP Project Co-ordinator,
  course tutors and service providers
• Weekly one to one meetings with tutors and NSP
  Project Co-ordinator

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Tesco Clare Hall Regeneration Programme

• Programme Outputs
• 80 clients participated in Training
• 59 completed the 24 week training programme
• 53 took up offer of employment with Tesco
• Of the 287 working in Tesco Clare Hall, 161 are
  from the Northside Partnership catchment area
  (56 of the total staff complement)

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CLAREHALL, MALAHIDE ROAD