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| Training Employment Advice Shop: Contact |
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Organisation name: |
TEA Shop |
Short title: |
Training Employment Advice Shop |
Type of tool: |
Emprego |
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Contact person: |
Beverley Winterbottom |
Postal address: |
Ground Floor, Thames Tower, 37-41 Station Road
Reading
RG1 1LX
U.K |
Phone: |
01189 015 217 |
Fax: |
01189 591 742 |
Email address: |
info@teashoponline.com |
Web site: |
www.teashoponline.com |
Development Partner (DP): |
i-WORK |
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About the organisation:- |
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A partnership between Reading Borough Council, Reading College, JobCentre Plus, and other key local agencies. |
Mission: |
Reading Borough Council’s TEA (Training Employment Advice) Shop offers a multi-agency one stop shop to the residents of Reading, for information advice and guidance services in relation to training, business and work, with clear emphasis on socially excluded disadvantaged groups.
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Local socioeconomic situation: |
Reading is a prosperous city with very low unemployment (0.8%)and has attracted many prestigious companies to be based here. Situated on M4 corridor (near Heathrow airport), it is a good logistics centre and has developed a thriving IT community. The city bounds are confined by the river Thames, and Reading can only grow within its already tight confines.
Increasingly, Reading workforce is drawn from wider and wider geographical area and to undertake the proposed construction alone in the city, Reading could employ every construction worker within a 200-mile radius.
The local Council recognises the problems that the lack of available workers, and an aging workforce present. Having commuters from wider and wider area puts a big strain on the city's infrastructure, housing and public services. It is more logical to engage the latent potential workforce already living within the city. These people already have housing and can use local transportation to access employment. Hidden workforce consists of ca 8-10,000 people: those on incapacity benefit, disabled, long-term unemployed, lone parents, mature workers, those excluded from employment due to their history, e.g., ex-offenders, ex-drug abusers. |
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Inglês |
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