i2i – new services for 2012
With a new year, new priorities and an ever changing environment – a fresh approach is required – Rachel Honey-Jones from i2i explains why.
Many of our partners have recently been approaching us for support to marry up their TR&T clauses and ensuring that TR&T opportunities are engaging and supporting tenants into work or employment.
Understanding the challenges ahead, we have reshaped some of our services to employ a TR&T advisor with the remit of supporting tenants to find job and training opportunities and supporting housing providers to ensure that tenancy support includes an element of training and employment support.
- Are you looking at opportunities to use TR&T to support tenants and residents into employment?
- Are you looking at ways to incorporate employment support into housing services?
- Do you need to refresh housing management in response to the welfare reform?
If so, look no further…………………..
Our new TR&T service will help you to:
1 – Keep up to date with good practice in involving tenants and providing training and employment opportunities
2 – Implement opportunities to use social inclusion clauses as core requirements to deliver jobs and training locally
3 – Provide monitoring and evaluation support to enable organisations to capture and measure outcomes achieved through supporting tenants into employment and training
4 – Access an up to date database of support and advice around jobs and training
5 – Access funding streams to support this agenda
6 – Provide intense, hands-on support and 1 on 1 training to ensure that employment programmes fit with your own organisational values and objectives
7 – Review housing management and tenancy support functions to widen scope to include employment and training and support the organisation to enable a change
8 – Signposting organisations to sources of technical support and advice
9 – Scope out options for additional support and funding through developing partnerships with various voluntary, private and public sector support bodies and keep a database of funding opportunities
10 – Provide support to supply chain contractors to embrace the principle of including social inclusion clauses in new contracts and how to engage tenants in a supportive way
11 – Identify good practice and promoting cross organisational learning and collaboration through our TR&T network and other routes
We will also be hosting a drop-in at TAI as an opportunity for you to learn more about our service….
Measuring your impact
Are you interested in measuring your hard outcomes through procurement? Do you want to know your ‘local multiplier effect’ in communities? Value Wales has developed a Welsh Community Benefits tool that does just this… Developed by the new Economics Foundation, a robust methodology sits behind the tool that will allow you to measure things like:
- £ saved the treasury through bringing an unemployed person into employment
- £ spent locally through local contractors and local materials
- % waste diverted from landfill
- cash contributions, sponsorship and in kind labour contributions
- total direct investment to the Welsh economy
contractors made to organisations or projects based in Wales
And it only requires data input on an excel sheet! Once the data is included, a Local Multiplier (LM3) figure will be produced for your project which will demonstrate for every £ you have spent, ‘X’ has been recycled in the local economy. Please get in touch if this is something you are interested in!
Our ‘three year on’ report on the impact of the Can Do Toolkit and wider community benefits across the housing and regeneration sector is currently being compiled and will be launched at TAI.
Finally, in order to capture different initiatives across Wales, we held events on measuring impact at the latter end of 2011 with case studies from several landlords. The follow up report from this can be found on our website:
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For further support or information, please contact:
Rachel Honey-Jones, i2i Co-ordinator
Email: rachel.honey-jones@cih.org
Mobile: 0750 735 1906