Housing Employment Connections Service launches

We are pleased to announce that our new service HECS has gone live. It’s aim is to create dynamic linkages between on the one side tenants’ housing and living choices and on the other their wider working/well-being aspirations. Camden one of the 12 local authority trailblazers has integrated our service into their evolving enhanced housing [...]

4th Annual CBL conference - Keynote address on worklessness

Ninesh Muthiah, our Chief Executive will be speaking on “Employability and Worklessness” at the 4th Annual CBL conference on Thursday 9th October 2008. We will also be running one of the seminars on marketing and engagement. You can download the full programme and book your place.

Housing Employment Connections (HECs) update

A timely report covered by Inside Housing again identifies the rise in unemployment among social housing tenants; you can read the article at Inside Housing website.
The HECs project is our intervention for tackling worklessness among social housing tenants. The project has gathered a head of steam through a range of meetings with providers and our [...]

Harrogate happenings

We are really looking forwarded to Harrogate this year and will be promoting our latest government sponsored project on worklessness and the work we have been doing around overcrowding. Worklessness and overcrowding are two of the big themes in housing at the moment and our new project is very forward thinking and timely.
Worklessness

The project now [...]

Home Connections forges job links for Choice Based Lettings

Home Connections has been commissioned by the Greater London Authority to run an innovative project to develop the linkages between choice based lettings (CBL) with employment opportunities and services. The project is called the Housing Employment Connections project (HECs) and it will run for 8 months and is supported by several local authorities, housing associations [...]