Liverpool City Council - competitiveness and social inclusion

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Competitiveness and social inclusion

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Liverpool is undergoing an economic revival.  New and existing businesses are bringing new jobs to the city. Our unemployment rate is falling consistently faster than the national average.

However, Liverpool has some of the poorest wards in the country.  Some areas of the city have high numbers of people without jobs. 

With money coming from central government and Europe through the Objective 1 programme, Liverpool City Council is working with a number of public sector groups to start and co-ordinate a range of actions that will:-

  • encourage jobless residents back into work by offering them training and skills improvement programmes which they can go on; 
  • develop new business opportunities for Small & Medium Enterprises (SME's) who supply many jobs for local people;  
  • help local residents feel better about their futures and make them more aware of their social responsibilities;  
    improve peoples' health; 
  • create healthy, sustainable neighbourhoods; and 
  • reduce poverty and deprivation.       

In this section:-   

  • JETs
    The JET Service can help residents and businesses in Liverpool match their abilities and interests with jobs or training courses.  It can also help employers find the right staff with the right training.  Find out more about what the JETs can offer to both businesses and residents. 

  • Indices of Deprivation 2004

    The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) 2004 is a way to measure just how poor some of our communities actually are, when compared to other areas of the country.  Find out where Liverpool's poorest areas are located; and what is being done to tackle poverty, health, unemployment and living conditions. 

  • Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy

    The Government has two strategies which have been designed to help 88 of the poorest local authority districts in the country: "A New Commitment to Neighbourhood Renewal" and "Neighbourhood Renewal Fund".

    As Liverpool is one of these 88 areas, the City Council and its partners on the Liverpool Partnership Group (the Local Strategic Partnership) have put together a Local Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy.  Find out more about what it means to every area of the city.    

  • Employment and Skills Signposting - Streets Ahead

    In Liverpool, we recognise that some of our residents need help to find out about jobs and training choices which are available to them.  We can help people to find work or a training placement which can remove them from being classed as unemployed.  

    'Streets Ahead' is a unique and new idea aimed at getting Liverpool people back into work.  It offers free advice on how to get onto job training schemes.