Integration Hub
The Integration Hub aims to ensure that residents across our boroughs receive the support they need to find and keep good work, and have careers that they can be proud of.
As part of the Mayor of London’s ‘No Wrong Door’ initiative, Local London’s Integration Hub team bring together employment services, employers and residents looking for work, apprentice/traineeships or training opportunities.
Our team work face-to-face with job centre staff and service providers to help them to help people find the right work and training opportunities for them.
Our team works to ensure people across the sub-region can access the employment and learning options available to them, and work especially hard to reach these priority groups:
- Special Educational Needs (SEN) and residents with disabilities, aged 19 and above.
- Low-skilled 19 to 24-year-olds (anyone without maths and English at Level 2).
- Those aged 50 and above.
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How does the Integration Hub work ?
The vision of our Integration Hub team is to support residents to get better access to opportunities, advice and guidance to help achieve their career goals.
They are doing this by:
- Gaining a thorough understanding of the challenges faced by our residents, the services and individuals that support them, and the businesses that employ them.
- Collaboratively working with colleagues to ensure they have the know-how and resources to help our most vulnerable residents.
- Helping to establish clear processes and interventions that provide remedies at local level.
- Amplifying opportunities, resources, and best practice to ensure that no matter where you are in our sub-region, your experience is consistent.
What we are doing
Work Connections Website
This website is being developed to connect all things employment and skills across Local London.
Whether you are an adviser or job coach, jobseeker, or an employer you will find lots here: workconnections.london
50 Forward Labour Market Information publications
Our 50 Forward publications are designed to provide accessible careers information to residents (particularly those aged 50 plus) on roles in priority sectors facing skills shortages, as identified by our employer-led research. Our publications have been co-designed with residents and are intended to raise the profile of work in these priority sectors as well as helping residents to map their careers and learning journey.
Ability Not Disability training
We run free training and information sessions primarily for businesses and organisations to help them become more inclusive, disability-friendly employers.
⇒ Discover more about our Ability Not Disability workshop.
Communications and Broadcasts
Targeted at our frontline advisers and job coaches, this series is designed to amplify information and referral routes. Our broadcasts provide timely and time-efficient information to our frontline advisers. They last between 10-15minutes at a time and the messaging is consistent and accessible. All broadcasts are recorded and distributed to all those who cannot attend live sessions.
⇒ Watch our Intro for employment advisors to Mind the Skills Gap: our employer-led skills improvement plan/LSIP broadcast.
SEND Board and Community of Practices
Our SEND Board and Community of Practice - where professionals can learn from each other - aim to improve the quality of support to residents in the sub-region accessing local authority job brokerages.
Resident-centred feedback loops
These include but are not limited to frontline adviser listening exercises, perception surveys and resident focus groups.
This workstream is entirely resident centred and provides us with important data on what is working well and areas within our local skills and employment system that requires improvement.
Support for grassroots community organisations
We are sharing information to support non-statutory and non-commercial organisations and not for profits that support our residents.
What is 'No Wrong Door'?
Local London’s Integration Hub is one strand of the GLA’s No Wrong Door initiative. Its focus is on driving improvement and embedding a single-front-door approach to employment and skills provision across the sub-region. This includes improving awareness and access to careers and employment related support for our most vulnerable residents, as well as upskilling the key actors in the employment and skills supply chain to meet the needs of our residents.
The Integration Hub is funded by the Mayor of London and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
For more information, visit UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
