Issue - meetings

8.35pm The Employment Action Network and the Haringey Guarantee

Meeting: 23/07/2009 - Northumberland Park & White Hart Lane Area Forum and Committee (Item 8)

8.35pm The Employment Action Network and the Haringey Guarantee

Skills training, employment advice and work placements, followed by questions from the floor

Minutes:

George Tsintas, manager of Haringey’s Employment Action Network, explained the aims and objectives of the Network and Guarantee.  These provided a new approach to worklessness, providing clients with information, support and advice and guidance.  This was being achieved by

                     Basic skills training

                     Vocational skills training

                     Work placements

                     Specialist support

                     CVs

                     Mock interviews

                     Post employment support

The Haringey Guarantee was “everything needed to help anybody who wants a job”, and was a partnership of more than ten organisations and agencies.  The network team comprised 4 Employment Advisers and 1 Employment Support Officer.  In response to questions George was able to confirm that 700 people had accessed the service, primarily from the more deprived wards in the east of the borough, and that 200 new jobs was the project’s target.