RESIDENTS living in Ashbrow Ward are being given help with skills to get back into employment.
Kirklees Council’s Huddersfield Area Committee has approved £6,500 towards the initiative which will offer support with filling in CVs, preparing for interviews and suggest volunteering opportunities.
The funding for the Ashbrow Employment and Learning Support scheme was given the go-ahead last week by the committee chaired by Clr Judith Hughes.
The scheme will link in with existing employment support offered by the Deighton and Brackenhall Initiative areas such as Fresh Horizons and Local Services 4 U.
Local Services 4 U are already established operators in the area and last year opened Sheepridge Launderette, owned by the Brackenhall Community Trust.
Areas where support will be focused include Red Doles, Abbey Road and Hammond Street estates and Bradley, although the imitative is available for anyone living in Ashbrow Ward.
The scheme will signpost users to volunteering opportunities to provide experience of a work environment and elicit the discipline of good timekeeping and what organisations expect of employees.
The services and agencies are in a position to provide support to a realistic number of volunteers.
Further information such as sources of support for childcare for two-year-olds and the Ready for Work Childcare scheme, could also be more widely publicised to benefit local people.
The report recommends the funding stating: “Funding of £6,500 revenue from the area committee represents a modest contribution to help to root a project within the local community to assist local residents to tackle disadvantage.
“By making best use of what is already available in existence represents a sensible approach that will sustain local services for the benefit of local people.”
The funding was given the go-ahead last week by Clr Hughes (pictured) and the first meeting of a steering group to establish the programme for 2012-2013 will be in the New Year.
