Creating Communities in the Capital Helen Cope

1. London Wellbeing
Conference 2013
Creating Communities
in the Capital
Presentation by
Helen Cope

2. What is community investment?
Community investment is investment in
people rather than bricks and mortar: e.g.
 Employment and skills
 Health
 Financial and social inclusion
 Safer neighbourhoods
 Empowerment and capacity building

3. Context
 Welfare reform
 Local cooperation
 Social Value Act 2012
 ‘Big society’
 Austerity
 Rising unemployment

4. Context: National
 UK unemployment rate 2.51 million or 7.8 per cent;
 1.3 million have been unemployed for over one or two years;
 945,000 unemployed 16 to 24 year olds, 1in 5;
 In some hotspots over 1 in 3 working-age residents are out of
work;
 Fewer than half of social tenants of working age are believed to
be in employment;
 80% of new housing association tenants aged 16-24 are
unemployed;
 Skills levels are also low.

5. The Challenge in social housing
• 62% of households in the social housing sector receive
housing benefits
• 68% of households in the social housing sector have
incomes less than £15,000
• 31% of households in the social housing sector are of
retirement age
• 43% of people living in the social housing sector have a
long term disability
• 20% of people living in social housing are children

6. The Business Case?

7. G15 investment in communities 2011-12
 Programmes and services benefitting over 87,000
Londoners
 £40.3 million a year invested in communities
( jobs, better skills, improved health and
opportunities)
 2,000 people into work with an estimated saving to
the Treasury of a £46 million;
 5,000 young people through educational or
training programmes: potential saving to the
public purse of £29 million.
 87% satisfied
 840 projects were delivered

9. Chart 2: Spending by service area
43%
16%
12%
12%
10%
4%
3%
Employment support
Community Cohesion
Young persons initiatives
Financial inclusion
Energy saving
Tackling ASB
Digital Inclusion

10. Job pathways
 2,000 people moved into work: a saving of £46million to the
economy;
 23,250 Londoners benefitted from access to jobs and job
pathways;
 3,800 people attended accredited training courses with 3,000
completing them;
 293 apprenticeships were taken up;
 14,200 Londoners received advice and guidance leading to jobs
pathways;
 625 people benefitted from paid placement and a further 500
into work experience placements;
 1,860 Londoners developed skills through volunteering
placements.

11. Job pathways

12. Inspiring young people
 Over 1.5 million children live in London.
 40% or 600,000 of them live in poverty 1 in 4 young
people in London are unemployed (25%);
 1 in 3.6 young men are unemployed (27%) and 22%
of young women;
 Nearly 1 in 2 black and Pakistani young adults are
jobless (44%);
 24,000 have been unemployed for over 12 months;
 London’s youth unemployment rate is the highest in
the country after Yorkshire.

13. Inspiring young people
 In 2011-12 the g15 invested £4.9 million in over 300
specific services for young people. They assist young
people through dedicated programmes including:
 Delivering almost 300 apprenticeships;
 Volunteering and participation including young
citizenship programmes;
 Capacity building through sport and arts;
 Family support and early interventions including
parenting;
 Children leaving care;
 Youth crime prevention;
 Money advice.

14. Inspiring young people

15. Supporting resilient communities
 208 community safety/community cohesion projects
were delivered;
 Over 60 projects were delivered specifically to
deflect anti-social behaviour;
 6,270 Londoners were engaged and progressed
through wellbeing sessions;
 Almost 4,000 family interventions were achieved;
 £9.6 million was invested by the g15 (excluding
external funding) in supporting communities.
 significant support to voluntary, community sector,
and social enterprise partners is provided across the
capital.

16. Supporting resilient communities

17. Strategic approach
 People – creating maximum opportunity to
improve the quality of life of individuals
 Partnerships – building strong links with key
external partners
 Performance – measure impact
 Funding

18. Vulnerable
e.g. Ex Offender/
Homeless
e.g. employability
confidence building
Vulnerable
e.g. Ex Offender/
Homeless
e.g. employability
confidence building
Older person
e.g. Volunteering
PT working
Health
Activities
Older person
e.g. Volunteering
PT working
Health
Activities
Adult
e.g. Employment and skills
Financial inclusion
Health and well being
Parental skills
Adult
e.g. Employment and skills
Financial inclusion
Health and well being
Parental skills
Young Person
(16-25) e.g.
Apprenticeships/skills
Placements
Sport
Leisure
Preventing ASB
Young Person
(16-25) e.g.
Apprenticeships/skills
Placements
Sport
Leisure
Preventing ASB
Child
(under 16) e.g.
Schools initiatives
Breakfast clubs
Pre-school
Play
Child
(under 16) e.g.
Schools initiatives
Breakfast clubs
Pre-school
Play
PEOPLE
PLACE
PARTNERSHIP
PEOPLE
PLACE
PARTNERSHIP

19. Strategic approach to
employment and skills
Procurement: Construction/maintenance and
non-construction offering offering NVQs
Apprenticeships etc
e.g. Placements/
Volunteering/mentoring
e.g. Signposting/ IAG
locally driven including
enterprise
e.g. Direct Services
offering NVQs
Apprenticeships etc

20. VulnerableVulnerable Older personOlder person
AdultAdultYoung PersonYoung PersonChildChild
Bend mainstream funding –
whole family support
Sure
Start
Work
Programme
Youth
Contract
National
Careers
Service
Vulnerable
Families
Programme
JCP
Funding

21. Employment and Skills
Academy
 Specialist interventions to remove barriers to
employability
 Benefits and Financial advice
 Peer Mentoring and Coaching (face to face and
telephone)
 Accredited programmes of vocational and basic skills
support linked to local colleges,
 Links to National Careers Service helpline
 Volunteering Programme
 Parenting and “Home Maker” Programmes
 Preferred partner for apprenticeship training

22. For further information please
do not hesitate to contact me:
helenfcope@btconnect.com