Friday, 19 June 2015

Housing Associations Play Vital Role In Tackling Worklessness

Housing associations' contribution to employment and skills has been recognised in a new report from the Centre for Cities. ‘Delivering change, What Housing Associations can tell us about employment and skills’ highlights how low skills and high unemployment clusters in social housing in cities and outlines a number of ways housing associations are contributing to tackling worklessness and growing skills. Bolstered by a number of housing-led case studies the report finds that housing associations’ role as major employers means they can offer a variety of ‘real’ jobs and work experience in-house or via their supply chains. Read more on the NHF website.

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