Employment and Skills

The Regeneration team leads an area of work focussing on Employment and Skills in the borough. 

SkillsREDBRIDGE, has been established as a sub-group of businessREDBRIDGE, part of Redbridge Strategic Partnership to bring together the key stakeholders in Employment and Skills across the borough in order to work together to develop a more co-ordinated approach to responding the employment and skill needs of Redbridge residents and businesses.

The complexity of service provision to support employment, training and enterprise can make it difficult for borough residents to access the right services.  

SkillsREDBRIDGE aims to facilitate collaboration between partners to enable a more joined up range of services to meet employment and skills needs.  The partnership is developing an employment and skills strategy and action plan to address skills shortages and worklessness issues in the borough.

Directory of Training and Employment Services for Businesses

The Directory was developed by SkillsREDBRIDGE and will continue to be up-dated.

The Directory provides details of services for businesses that want help in training and developing their staff or in recruiting local people to work in their businesses. 

Having staff with the right skills is key to business success and growth. There is a range of services available locally, including analysis of your training needs, advice and guidance of where to get assistance and how it can help your business.

You can access the Redbridge training and employment directory 

Employment and Skills Strategy

• work on the development of an Employment and Skills Strategy (PDF 1.28 KB)  commenced with undertaking a competitiveness audit, highlighting the state of the borough from and Economic, Social and Environmental aspect
• the audit highlighted the need to develop a strategy to raise skill levels and to address pockets of long-term worklessness in parts of the borough and amongst the hardest to reach and excluded groups.

The Employment and Skills Strategy Aims

• ensure the working age population of Redbridge have the appropriate range and level of skills to meet the demands of a changing economy and of new employment opportunities arising from growth and development in the borough and across East London
• work closely with and co-ordinate services delivered by key employment and training stakeholders and partners in the borough including Jobcentre Plus, Learning and Skills Council, Redbridge College, Redbridge Institute of Adult Education, Barnabas Workshops and Schools, etc
• develop projects to improve the employment prospects for non-employed population groups, specifically aiming to raise the employment rate amongst women, older people of working age, disabled people, lone parents, BAME groups, people of different faiths and people of different sexual orientation - and young people experience difficulties in the transition from school to work or training
• development of the Employment and Skills strategy will link to the town centres and business competitiveness agendas, and contribute directly to achievement of Local Area Agreement targets.