Social Inclusion and Economic Wellbeing Hartlepool Case Studies

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Targeted Recruitment and Training Process To
Practice

• Social Inclusion and Economic WellbeingHartlepoo
  l Case Studies

• Diane Martin
• Hartlepool Borough Council

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Hartlepool Borough CouncilTargeted Recruitment
andTraining Charter

• Targeted Recruitment and Training Charter
• Adopted alongside the Councils Procurement
  Strategy in 2007
• Strategic Drivers
• Local Policy Framework Hartlepool Partnerships
  Community Strategy
• HBC Procurement Strategy
• Legal Policy Framework Planning and
  Development
• Control
• Section 1 Jobs and Economy
• Develop a local economythat will attract
  investment.and create more employment
  opportunities for local people.
• To support local people in gaining maximum
  benefit from the economic regeneration of the
  town..
• Government
• Best Value
• Regional Skills Partnerships.
• Local Area Agreements.
• City Strategies
• MAA

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Legal Policy Framework Planning Development
Control

• Targeted Recruitment and Training (TRT) meets
  three tests
• - Meets planning purposes
• - Related to the site
• - Reasonable
• Targeted Recruitment and Training related to
  the development can meet the three tests
• Planning Purpose is established because of the
  contribution TRT makes to a key planning purpose
  namely Sustainable Development ( high and stable
  levels of economic growth and employment,
  achieving social progress, recognising the needs
  of everyone).
• TRT supports sustainable development by ensuring
  the number of people in the local labour market
  increases in line with job creating investment,
  by supporting existing businesses and by reducing
  car-based commuting and the associated
  environmental damage.

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Case Study 1 Housing Hartlepool

• TRT Charter in place
• Contractual clause and method statement
  targets/outcomes agreed.
• Monitoring process, support service and
  reporting structures in place.
• (through Hartlepool Borough Council Economic
  Development function)
• Five year Strategic partnership with Wates
  Construction, Gus Robinson and Hartlepool Borough
  Council
• Targets
• 120 people employed
  over lifetime of agreement
• 60 Apprenticeships
• 60 LTU to be given employment
  opportunity opportunity to upskill
• placement opportunity
• Achievements to June 2008
• Employed to date
  155 (149 Hartlepool)
• Apprentices 44 (38
  Hartlepool)

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Case study 2 WIMPEY HOMES
Development Brief HBC and New Deal for
Communities (North Central Hartlepool
Demolition New Build) Contractual Clause
in place for tender process . HBC
Forecast of local labour opportunities against
spend, timescale and type of build. Negotiation
on methodology and target setting agreed with
main contractor Sub contractor
agreements Local supply clause
Education Business Link activity
Meet the Buyer event opportunities to submit
expression of interest for supply sub
contracts Cascade contractual clause
down to sub contractor. To date 6
Apprenticeships selection from boundary schools
within development School
Initiatives safety poster competitions
Local employment ongoing
Development due to commence and subcontractors
appointed. HBC Economic Development Ongoing
monitoring with main contractor reporting to
NDC/HBC/ NAP Forums.
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Supporting the process

• The (CEI) process is demand led, client centred
  employment model focussing particularly on the
  disadvantaged and unemployed
• Supports local authority and social housing
  organisations to achieve social policy objectives
  and community benefit through the use of
  leveraged planning and procurement agreements and
  targeted recruitment and training
• Enables working with strategic partners to
  deliver the sustainable client training
  interventions, which meet the requirements of the
  prospective employer, and the employment
  aspirations of the employee

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Hartlepool Borough Council/HBC Economic
Development/Housing Hartlepool 2005-2010
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ECONOMIC BENEFITS

• Targeting and generating re-spend
• Saving to the Exchequer (Housing Hartlepool
  project)
• The aggregate number of people accessing
  employment as a direct result of TTE is 149
• The minimum wage for calculation purposes is
  assumed to be 5.52/hr or 204.24/week and
  10,629/year. (The average gross wage for a semi
  skilled construction employee is circa
  22,000/year).
• Based upon the lower income figure and that all
  were unemployed before start of contracts the
  economic benefit generated to date is 10,629 X
  149 1583721.

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Economic benefits

• (Source Freud, Reducing Dependency, Increasing
  Opportunity Options for the Future of Welfare to
  Work, 2007).
• In comparison, it is worth noting the cost of an
  individual on a working age benefit. For
  instance, within The Freud Report on worklessness
  it was identified that for each individual
  claiming Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) it costs
  8,100 each year and for an individual claiming
  Incapacity Benefit (IB) costs 9,000 per year
  minimum. Nationally, on average, once someone has
  been on IB for a year they are on this benefit
  for eight years (Amounting to an overall cost of
  approximately 72,000). For IB claimants, 86
  will remain on this benefit for over a year.

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Individual case studies (Hartlepool projects)

• Local Contracting
• Local contracts let on Housing development
  12 sub-contracts awarded 5 Hartlepool 2 Tees
  Valley.
• Benefits savings
• Unemployed IB, single, age 18 24yrs. 2 years
  on benefits.
• total cost in benefits 18,641 (24months)
• In work example would recoup this cost in
  first year.
• Single person two years unemployed with
  partner claiming IB and IS.
• total benefits 27,370
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OPPORTUNITIES

• Victoria Harbour- through S106 (in place)
• PCT developments (end user JRF)
• BSF cascade to sub contractors in agreement
  with National Procurement Framework
• Building Colleges for the Future
• Tees Bay expansion (end user in place)
• Tesco Expansion (end user in place)

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Partner Developments

• All five Tees Valley LAs utilising clause
• Four in policy
• Roll out with Tyne Wear through Construction
  Employment Integrator pilot
• (Hartlepool Accountable Body)
• National rollout with support of Working Ventures
  UK
• Disseminating Best Practice with other LAs
  recently Salford and Bristol City Councils
• Local Employment Partnership with JCP for
  inclusion in Charter led by Economic
• Development.