Clean Slate

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• Clean Slate
• Practical responses to worklessness
• Jeff Mitchell

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Clean Slate

• Social Enterprise
• CS Distribution
• CS Employment
• Training services
• Consultancy
• Quids in! magazine

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The Employment Business

• Workless Temp Workers recruited on zero hours
• Ad hoc hours through distribution service for
  BNES PCT, Bristol CC, Rhondda HA, Somer
• Green Stewards
• Regular hours through employment business for
  Somer/ Redland Housing, Bath Abbey
• Workless people also employed within CSTE

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Employment Milestones

• 10,000 hours of ad hoc work through distribution/
  packing and stewarding
• Engaging the hardest to reach
• 5,000 hours through regular employment
  in-house or with employer partners
• 1,000 users in two years in Bristol and BNES
• 150 have found permanent employment

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Jock

• Although they only need me for 20 minutes each
  day, Clean Slate has given me a reason to get up
  and stay sober until lunch time. Everyone else
  has written me off and for the first time in 15
  years I am thinking about the future. They treat
  me as a person respected, trusted and paid for
  the work I do.

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Engaging Workless People

• Job Shops with self-referral, drop-in access
• Visitors looking for help with CVs and job search
• Accessible community-based and peer support
• Structured programme to work into the process
• Building self-confidence, goal setting, action
  plans
• Training on IT skills, communications, HS
• Orienting people to the workplace

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Getting On the Job

• A unique approach?
• CVs Resumes are not fit for purpose
• Building on skills and qualities, often buried
• IT a pre-requisite practical application
• Role playing expectations
• Setting appropriate, personalised goals
• Bespoke action plans
• Employment seeing skills at work

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Tina

• After raising a family for 20 years, and after 6
  months on a Job Centre programme without even
  getting a CV, within two sessions with Clean
  Slate, I realised I had lots of skills. I planned
  to use my experience as a mum in caring for the
  elderly and I wrote my CV straight away and
  started applying for jobs.

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Engaging Workless People

• Lawrence Weston Job Shop Year One
• 300 visitors
• 60 complete level On the Job
• 45 into permanent employment (all completed On
  the Job)
• Now engaging employers directly
• Forthcoming Work Champions project

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Barriers

• Workless People
• Poor confidence, skills, expectations,
  presentation
• Cost, fear of stigma, poor information/ support

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Barriers

• Workless People
• Poor confidence, skills, expectations,
  presentation
• Cost, fear of stigma, poor information/ support
• Employers
• Recruitment processes exclude workless people
• Perceived direct and indirect costs
• Hassle, hidden risks

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Aspiring to More

• Worklessness research
• 60 looking for work
• 8 had no plans for work
• Money the motivation
• Interest in all kinds of work incl. wet trades,
  shop, office, animals and support work

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Somer Pilot

• Somer Housing inspired to engage with combating
  worklessness. Clean Slate entered supply chain
• Packing and delivery
• Supplying Clean Slate workers as temps
• Employability projects engaging workless people
• Handy Help Co
• Goodwill Good sense Common sense

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Working Together

• Looking for employers with a clear social remit
• 3 managers x 2 Temp Workers x 2.5 hours pw
• CSTE supports Temp Workers and supervisors with
  job matching, induction work and coaching
• Individuals prove and improve their employability
• Low hassle, low risk, low cost to employers
• Flexible capacity structured recruitment of
  tenants

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Testimonials Employers
Jane Jones Head of HR, Somer Community
Housing It was important that the opportunities
were real work the challenge was to find the
right roles. Some staff wanted to ask Why are
they unemployed?, If theyre ex-offenders, what
did they do? Clearly they couldnt ask and it
wasnt relevant. Queries actually stopped once
the person was in post theyre just a person
like anyone else. Then we only had to focus on
what they could do for us. 2 of the 3
supervisors who took on Clean Slate Temp Workers
were new to management, it was an opportunity for
them to develop. One supervisor is herself much
more upbeat and can see opportunities for other
roles. They feel were able to deliver better
services to tenants and the temps are putting
forward ideas on ways to do things better. The
workers demonstrated new confidence and
self-esteem. One said Im a different person.
Sometimes we need to push people beyond their
comfort zone but the social interaction makes a
big difference. They proved any negative
expectations about unemployed people were
unfounded There have been no incidents of
lateness or inappropriate dress/ attitude for
work. Were now looking at whether other
establishment jobs that become vacant could be
constructed differently can full-time roles
become part-time ones or opportunities for
small-scale, casual staffing? TWs have a
negative perception of regular employment
agencies and describe CSTE as positive and making
them feel like they can do.
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Venturing Forward

• Exploring joint ventures to create jobs to be
  fulfilled through the employment business
• Partners will share our business ethic, have
  defined roles and provide complementary service
• Offer our expertise on social enterprise
• Try again with TalentShop Building commercial
  partnerships with workless people themselves

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The HandyHelp Co

• First joint venture with DHI and Somer Housing
• Identified demand for handyperson service
• Matches workless peoples aspirations
• CSE offers labour pool model lower fixed costs
• CSD can deliver materials
• Recruitment for training (at Bath City Farm)
  underway
• Launch in January 2012
• Fundraising for bill-buster/ CO2 reduction
  project