Decision details

Neighbourhood Reform Pilots to tackle long term worklessness

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

In 2013/14 the three Tri-borough Councils were jointly awarded £500,000 as part of the DCLG Transformation Challenge Award (TCA). A further £500,000 was allocated from the same fund in 2014/15. This report seeks Cabinet members’ agreement that the funding should be used to establish and test a new approach to support long term workless residents into sustainable employment (termed in Westminster and RBKC the “Local Employability Aspirations Project” or LEAP).

Decision:

1.1.      That Westminster City Council’s Cabinet Member for Housing, Regeneration, Business & Economic Developmentagrees the use of the Transformation Challenge Award as set out in this report.

1.2.       That the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea’s Cabinet Member for Housing, Property and Regeneration agrees the use of the Transformation Challenge Award as set out in this report.

1.3.       That the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham undertake further detailed work to identify how the funding can be best used to support local priorities to tackle long-term worklessness, and that incurring this expenditure be delegated to the Cabinet Member for Economic Development and Regeneration.

 

Report author: Antonia Hollingsworth

Publication date: 04/12/2014

Date of decision: 01/12/2014

Decided at meeting: 01/12/2014 - Cabinet

Effective from: 08/12/2014

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