Improving the employment prospects of disabled residents
From 1996 to 2009 the City Fringe Partnership delivered major initiatives to improve the prospects of residents and support London's small businesses.
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Improving the employment prospects of disabled residents
Worklessness and the skills gaps that exist in the City Fringe have many underlying causes. CFP sector-based initiatives offered local people new routes to finding work as well as up-skilling the workforce and encouraging new entrants. However, there was also a real need for basic skills development to help the long-term unemployed and those with low prospects into jobs. The CFP tackled these issues with two major employment initiatives, Pathways to Jobs 1 and 2, which helped City Fringe residents furthest from the labour market gain core skills that would help them into employment.
The CFP's second Pathways to Jobs programme, which ran between 2007 and 2009, established seven projects to work with target groups of City Fringe residents who required specialist employment advice, training and job brokerage facilities.
Fast Train to Work - Emeka Ogbogoh, Islington resident
Fast Train to Work at The Camden Society was a core skills and employability training project designed to help people with disabilities gain the confidence, skills and experience to work in the Health & Social Care job market.
Interviewed in 2008, Emeka Ogbogoh was one of the people who benefited from the programme. "I have a learning difficulty and my tutor at City & Islington College recommended that The Camden Society could help me."
"Fast Train to Work took me through what I wanted to do with my life and what jobs I wanted. I come in on Tuesdays and I work with them one-to-one. They help me search for jobs that I can apply for. They take me through job websites and application forms on-line."
Emeka's intention was to become a youth worker and, through the project, he worked towards the qualifications he needed. "We did a health and safety course and one in food hygiene and first aid," he explained. "These are what you need to start off with."
Through the CFP's Fast Train to Work project he also built up his experience by working at an after school club for young people in Islington. Shadowing a qualified youth worker there, Emeka learnt what the job really entailed: "The health and safety course taught me only to do those things that I am qualified to do."
