New research reveals training for work programmes run by
housing associations are regarded as better than job centres for finding
employment. Researchers from Brunel University London studied HA programmes.
Unlike Job Centre Plus, they found housing associations have good staff
availability, give friendly, personalised, constructive advice and ‘offer
hope’. Housing associations are taking on welfare service provision as new
state regulation demands they spur tenants towards independent living and away
from welfare dependence. Aimed at hard-to-reach groups such as long-term
unemployed and young people not in education, employment of training (NEETs),
Housing association employment services have a variety of funders including
government. Read more on 24housing.
