Our Tackling Worklessness Conference – videos available

A selection of the videos from our recent “Housing Employment Connections” Conference are now available. The day was a real success and feedback has been really positive from the 60+ delegates that attended. Richard Blakeway Director of Housing at the Greater London Authority was a key note speaker and made some interesting points around future [...]

Housing Employment Connections Service launches UPDATE

Our new service launched in November 2008 has gone from strength to strength. It has created 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 options approach. [...]

The Housing Employment Connections (HECs) Conference

A Case Study in Enhancing Housing Options
5th February 2009, London
Places are strictly limited and filling up fast to book places and find out more follow this link

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 [...]