Communities that Work

Great to partner with Southern Housing to welcome Kevin McKenna MP to the Swale JobsPlus hub today.

Fantastic to showcase the work the team is doing to support local people into meaningful, sustainable employment.

#CtW #CommunitiesThatWork #JobsPlus #EmploymentSupport

07.11.2025 18:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

📚 #GetTheNationLearning Week is just a week away!

We’re proud to support @LearnWorkUK’s campaign championing lifelong learning — vital for helping people gain skills & secure sustainable jobs in a changing economy.

Learn more 👉 getthenationlearning.org.uk/about/

27.10.2025 15:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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⏰ Last chance! Take part in the Housing, Growth & Green Jobs Alliance survey today.

Your input will help shape research on how social housing can contribute to the UK’s green transition.

👉 forms.office.com/e/Ez7LsY9YD5

#GreenJobs #SocialHousing #NetZero #Retrofit #Skills"

13.10.2025 10:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Theorising ‘best practice’ for supporting those furthest from the market into work or self-employment in France and England - Zografia Bika, Catherine Locke, Caterina M Orlandi, Benjamin Valcke, 2025 Mainstream/statutory Micro-Enterprise-and-Employment-Support-Services (MEESS) have delivered poor outcomes for disadvantaged individuals and deprived areas. In ...

A new University of East Anglia study shows third-sector services, like housing associations, are more effective than govt programmes in helping the long-term unemployed.

The key?
💡 Focus on people’s strengths
🤝 Long-term support
🏘️ Community roots

Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

10.10.2025 13:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

At #LabourConference we hosted a #CommunitiesThatWork panel with Plus Dane on JobsPlus, focused on tackling unemployment and inactivity in social housing.

Huge thanks to @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social and John Grady MP for their insights!

#SocialHousing #Employment

01.10.2025 16:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A place to live, a way to work: the role of HAs in reaching 80% employment Join Communities at Work at the Labour Party Conference for their fringe panel event, followed by complimentary teas & coffees until 6pm

📢 Tomorrow at #LabourPartyConference: A Place to Live, A Way to Work

Join us to explore how housing associations can help deliver Labour’s 80% employment target.

🗓 Tue 30 Sept, 16:30–18:00
📍 Atlantic Pavilion, Albert Dock

👉 Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-place-to...

29.09.2025 12:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

More than 700 people engaged and 150 in jobs as housing associations across England trial new model of employment support for their tenants | FE News | More than 700 people engaged and 150 in jobs as housing associations across England trial new model of employment support for their tenants

Thrilled to see coverage of the JobsPlus pilot sites this month, incl. this great piece from @fenews.bsky.social .

Research shows social housing residents are nearly twice as likely to be out of work.

Government must commit to rolling the programme out nationwide!

www.fenews.co.uk/education/mo...

25.09.2025 11:09 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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🌍 Launching the Housing, Growth & Green Jobs Alliance research!

A major new research project with Evidence First & Opergy exploring how #SocialHousing can power the UK’s #NetZero workforce.

📢 Housing providers: take our survey 👉 forms.office.com/e/Ez7LsY9YD5

#GreenJobs #CtW

22.09.2025 16:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0