Accent Regeneration

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• Accent Regeneration Community Partnerships

Will Jennings Director of Regeneration Ehjaz
Gull - Asst Director of Regeneration ehjaz.gull_at_a
ccentgroup.org Will.jennings_at_accentgroup.org
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Investing in the Future Creating Sustainable
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• How did YouthBuild Start
• Started in 1997 with 20k grant and an idea

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YouthBuild Model
Awareness
Individual Development
Mentoring
Placement
Schools Regen Initiatives - Construction
Careers Awareness- Targeted Area Schools-
Careers Service Partnerships- Local Regeneration
Partnerships- Use of Role Models- Illustrate
the Financial Benefits
Key Skills - CV writing - Time Management -
Interview Techniques - Outward Bound -
Communication Skills - Working With Others Basic
Skills - Numeracy - Literacy - ICT
Dropout Evaluation
Qualifications NVQ,1,2,3 FAVE NOCNA ECDL
Corgi Reg. BTEC HND
Additional Support Requirement
Non-achievers counseling
Completion of Training
Raising Awarenessof Construction
Development of Individuals
Work Taster Development
Assessment Interview
Placement
Register of interest
- Numeracy literacy support - CITB
Assessment - Determine route - Trade
- Technician - Management
Mentoring - Regular meetings (risk band) - Home
visit (involve parents) - Liaison with Site
Manager - identify problems early
- remedial action
- Site Visits - Assessment prep.- W.E.
Placements
Construction Awareness - Mock CITB Assessment -
Taster days- Site Visits - Projects
Community Access - Centre Managers- Community
Leaders- Community Newspapers- Parents -
Outreach Work- Careers Information - Role
Models - Illustrate financial benefits
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Investing in the Future Creating Sustainable
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• What do we deliver today
• Recruitment Mentoring
• Life Skills - Personal Development/Capacity
  Building
• Basic and Key Skills Training
• Key Stage 4 Training (14-16 Year Olds)
• Vocational Training (Accredited Qualifications)
• Work Tasters Work Placements, Jobs
• Support the Employers - Cultural Awareness
  Training
• Social Enterprise, Business Support, Business
  Growth
• Training Centres - One Stop Training (RSL
  College)

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Investing in the Future Creating Sustainable
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• What does YouthBuild do
• YouthBuild helps the most disadvantaged realise
  their potential.
• YouthBuild breaks the cycle of hereditary
  unemployment and contributes to mixed
  communities.
• It encourages partnership working between the
  public, private and third sectors in driving
  economic prosperity.
• Contributes to community cohesion

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• Procurement, Supply Chain and Jobs
• Cascading of policy into action
• Effective Monitoring and Accountability
• Ineffective leverage of spending
• Costing in of financial penalties
• Price and quality no longer the only factors in
  determining successful supply chain contractors.
• Tightening up of the legal contract.
• More effective monitoring of contract and
  accountability
• Employer group
• Access to other RSL Supply chain
• Developing Partnerships Through CICs

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• Benefits and Success
• 11 years of tackling worklessness
• 6m of external funding and 2m of Accent
  Contribution
• 4 BME Apprentices in 1999. 20 every year now
• 20 BMEs in Bradford College in 1999. 300 by 2003
• Used YouthBuild model to engage Muslim women
• Used Model in Finance, Business, and Health
  Sectors
• Used YouthBuild model to attract White Youths in
  Harrogate and Leeds

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• Awards-
• Winner of the Bronze Award Boosting Employment
  Potential (DfEE) 1997
• YouthBuild Represents UK in European Exclusion
  Conference - 2000
• Wins Outstanding Achievement Award in Social
  Housing in England at the National Housing
  Awards - 2001
• Incorporated into Housing Corp and Sub-regional
  Strategies for Yorkshire Humberside- 2003
• Significant rise in BMEs entering College due
  to YouthBuild 2003
• Winner of the Big Tick from Business in the
  Community 2004
• Successful Women into Construction Programme -
  2006
• Skills Training, Learning Workforce
  Development - ASC Awards 2007
• Creating the Future Award for Excellence - ASC
  Awards 2007
• Winner of Diversity Equality category -
  Guardian Public Services Awards 2007
• Winner of the Housing Corporations Gold Award
  Worklessness 2008

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• Funding for Sustainability
• Strong commitment from Accent Directors
• Identified the need to secure external funding
• Commitment to employing specialist staff.
• ESF
• ERDF (Revenue and Capital)
• Co-financing
• Equal
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• New Deal for Communities
• LSC
• Small Business Services
• Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder ELEVATE
• Councils
• Colleges
• Construction Industry Training Board
• Accent
• Job Centre Plus

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• Hurdles and Brick Walls
• Prime-Contractors
• Up-scaling
• Updating staff skills and qualifications
• Financial Constraints
• Todays best practice probably wont fit
  tomorrows headlines.

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• What Next
• RSL Collaborations
• Meet the challenge of up-scaling
• Develop a niche to engage with Prime Contractors
• Asset Development
• Income Generation Commercial Programmes
• Consultancy

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• Questions
• ehjaz.gull_at_accentgroup.org
• will.jennings_at_accentgroup.org