Issue - meetings

The Board receive a report on progress in the main programmes tackling worklessness in the Borough – the Haringey Guarantee, Families into Work and the North London Pledge.

Quarter 1 of 2009/10 showed that Haringey Guarantee had achieved 60 sustainable jobs, in spite of re-commissioning work earlier in the year. 59 families were engaged with Families into Work; 8 people from workless families had been supported into work and 18 were looking for interviews, and it was intended that 100 families would engage with the scheme over three years.

Haringey Council had submitted a successful proposal on behalf of Haringey, Enfield and Waltham Forest for a pilot Sustainable Employment programme, North London Pledge 2. Funding for this project would be £2.5m, and the programme would run from October 2009 to March 2011. The North London Pledge 2 was focussed on assisting workless residents into sustainable jobs, and that the target was to support 625 residents across the three boroughs into employment. It was noted that Haringey was the lead authority on this pilot, and that funding could begin to be drawn down once the contract was signed. It was further reported that the scheme would fit in with the Personalised Employment Programme pilot which was due to start in 2011, and that delivery partners were largely already in place through the existing Haringey Guarantee work.

RESOLVED

That the development and progress in each of the programmes be noted.