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Organisation name: |
Lamda3 Ltd. |
Short title: |
The Challenge |
Type of tool: |
Social inclusion |
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Contact person: |
Richard Clark |
Postal address: |
Brooklands House
Petersfield Avenue
Slough
SL2 5DY
U.K. |
Phone: |
01753 575 122 |
Fax: |
01753 575 124 |
Email address: |
info@lamda3.com |
Web site: |
www.lamda3.com |
Development Partner (DP): |
i-WORK |
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About the organisation:- |
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Mission: |
To function as a specialist training centre, for young homeless people, people with a learning disability, ex-offenders, and ex-drug abusers to gain employability skills and ultimately help them back to work. |
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Local socioeconomic situation: |
1. Slough is a largely urban area.
2. Slough residents are in low paid employment, often outside the Borough, yet employees in Slough have one of the highest levels of gross weekly earnings in Berkshire, but 70% of those employed in Slough are not local residents.
3. In spite of being part of one of the largest commercial and industrial development areas in Europe, the town belongs to the group of the most deprived third of local authorities on a national scale of socio-economic measures.
4. Some of Slough's wards (Britwell, central Chalvey, Farnham, Haymill and Stke) are amongst the most deprived in Berkshire as measured by the government's index of deprivation - over 45% of the population of Slough live in the six most deprived wards.
5. Chalvey for example is placed nationally :-
-In the top 2.5% of most deprived English wards in terms of Housing
-In the top 5% of most deprived English wards in tems of Education
-in the top 20% of most deprived wards in terms of Multiple Deprivation, Child poverty and Income
Source:- Chalvey Community Audit September 2001
6. Slough has a higher than average proportion of the working population with low or very low literacy skills compared with the national average.
7. The high percentage of manufacturing industry in Slough employs people in jobs requiring little or no basic skills. As these industries decline and as manufacturing processes change there is an increase in older men with low skills who are facing long-term or permanent unemployment. A pattern of short-term employment followed by periods of unemployment is developing in many young people who have low levels of skills and qualifications.
8. Almost half of the fifty primary and secondary schools maintained by the LEA are part of the education action zone (EAZ) established in 1999.
9. Slough has a poor health record with levels of heart disease, strokes and diabetes on a par with that found in some inner cities.
10. Slough has a significant drugs problem with 80% of crime in the town (burglary, vehicle crime and shoplifting) being drug related.
11. 2001 Audit of Crime & Disorder - covering three years from 1998 - 2001:
Violent crime risen by 38%
Burglary has risen by 35%
Criminal damage risen by 16%
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