Location: Small Heath
Strategic Investment Plan: Enterprising Communities
This fills gaps in:
- Service provision for learning, careers advice and employment opportunities
- Learning and employment opportunities supported with childcare facilities
- Culturally sensitive female only provision
- Progression on to learning at NVQ level 3 or above
- A greater range and more appropriate learning provision targeting employment growth areas.
The positive outcomes of this are:
- Reduction in the relative and absolute levels of unemployment and worklessness in the Zone
- Reduction in skills shortages and skills gap experienced by businesses
- Improved household incomes
- Reduced numbers without qualifications (25+)
- Improved educational attainment, workforce skills, soft and language skills, at NVQ 3 and above (25+)
- Improved econmoic participation rates for ethnic, young asylum seekers and refugees.
