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Title: From Poverty to Prosperity


1
From Poverty to Prosperity
  • 10 February 2009

Sheila Davies Director of Development
Regeneration, Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough
Council
2
Current Unemployment National Average 5.1 (Dec
07)
  • Blaenau Gwent 8.4
  • Bridgend 8.5
  • Caerphilly 6.5
  • Merthyr Tydfil 10.2
  • RCT 5.3
  • Torfaen 5.3

3
Current Economic Inactivity Rate National
Average 24.5 (Dec 07)
  • Blaenau Gwent 29.1
  • Bridgend 23.9
  • Caerphilly 28.8
  • Merthyr Tydfil 28.3
  • RCT 26.0
  • Torfaen 26.6

4
Growing Sectors
  • Education
  • Health Social Work
  • Recreation Cultural Activities
  • Hotels Restaurants
  • Knowledge based services
  • Construction

5
Big Issue?
  • Supply and demand
  • Skill levels
  • Health Levels

6
Macro Level
  • High level of economically inactive in age bands
    16-24 40.4 and
  • 25-49 24.6
  • Need to focus on health care
  • Followed by training / upskilling / re-skilling

7
Sectoral Level
  • Valley Growth sectors
  • Built Environment
  • Care
  • Cultural Creative Industries
  • Retail Hospitality

8
Future Opportunities
  • Major Physical Regeneration investment plans for
    Valley Town Centres
  • Major Housing Investment (WHQS)
  • Major Focus on Child Poverty and Economic
    Inactivity

9
Future Opportunities Elsewhere
  • Cardiff St Davids II Sports Village
  • St Athan Major Defence Training Facility
  • Heads of the Valleys big push for
    leisure/recreation/tourism/retail

10
New Opportunities New Jobs
  • Theory
  • v
  • Practice

11
How Do We Tackle This?
  • Economic Regeneration Partnership
  • Children and Young Peoples Partnership
  • Health, Well Being Social Care Partnership

12
Joint partnership group Learning for Work
Group
13
Learning for Work Group
  • Task Finish Groups for each growth sector
  • E.g. Retail Hospitality
  • 3 Objectives
  • Increase base skill provision within employment
  • Create and increase pathways into and within
    employment
  • Develop projects that engage the economically
    inactive and unemployed to prepare them for work

14
New Developments
  • Major New EU Funding Programmes-
  • Bridges into Work
  • Genesis
  • Want 2 Work
  • Job-Match

15
Conclusion
  • Working Together to Increase
  • Quality of life
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