What it is: A project that works with unemployed parents in
Stoke-on-Trent
Goals: To boost confidence and support parents in accessing training -
and eventually employment
Funding: 674,393 over two years from the Neighbourhood Renewal
Fund
Contact: Mel Baines, 07939 724 833
Citywide promotions officer Mel Baines is clear about the kind of problems faced by parents in Stoke-on-Trent - and the kind of help that is on offer to them via Start Up Citywide, a project that works in all eight of the city's Sure Start and children's centres. "Lots of people here in Stoke-on-Trent are third generation unemployed - their parents and their grandparents before them didn't work," she says. "They think they can't get work."
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