During 1998-99 we worked through the partners to support development in Birmingham which:
- created 7 jobs
- benefited 47,867 pupils
- assisted 3,854 people to get qualifications
- supported 8,904 training weeks
- benefited 14,652 young people in their own time
- engaged 39 employers in collaborative projects
- benefited 67 voluntary organisation sand 11 community groups
- created 948 new volunteers
- assisted 13,615 parents
- supported 151 new schools
- safeguarded 2,536 jobs
- assisted 1,307 people into jobs
- advised 76 businesses
This is for more outputs than we were contracted to deliver. These outputs were achieved using £2,846,500 of Single Regeneration Budget funding. We hit all of our financial targets exactly.
Substantial progress has been made in 1998-99. This progress has taken a number of forms:
- better networking and coherence between disparate agencies
- better than national rates of increase in pupil attainments
- more structured approach to key skills at work
- stronger links to existing strategies ñ enhancement of New Start; New Deal;
National Literacy & Numeracy strategies etc.
- creation of sustainable, high impact models that are gaining national recognition
- external validation of the strategic approach taken and the quality of our partnership working
- additional support for children looked after; families in hostels etc.
Work still needs to be done to:
- bring increased joint planning and coherence to language development in the early years
- create stronger links across the varieties of out-of-school activities
- ensure that strategic approaches emerge to work with offenders, homeless etc.
- respond to the Moser Report agenda in Birmingham
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