Good Practice: How a social housing provider is improving young people's job prospects in London and the home counties

Project One Housing Group's Youth Employment Service

Funding This year, One Housing Group invested £806,000 in employment and training services including an apprenticeship programme. It also gained £150,000 from the charity Community Action and a £250,000 grant from the Future Jobs Fund

Purpose To support young people into employment

Background One Housing Group is a social housing provider working in London and the home counties. For the past four years the organisation has run an employment and training service for young people and adults, but 18 months ago it set up a dedicated service for young people aged 16 to 24. "Young people face different barriers to employment so our aim is not simply to support them into employment but to identify those barriers and help them overcome them," explains employment and training development manager Nazrul Islam.