Toolkits

 

Capacity Building

Within this section you’ll find guidance around capacity building, training materials and practical advice about how to build community capacity.

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Community Capacity Building Toolkit

This guidance is for staff involved in community capacity building. It gives practical advice about how to build community capacity; brings together existing materials and tools and provides examples from others

Employability Training for Health Professionals

The aim of the training pack is to raise awareness of the links between health and employability and to explore with healthcare staff ways of incorporating this into practice 
 

Frontline Workers Toolkit for Non-Employability Staff

This guides focus is on the role frontline services such as social work, health and housing services can play to help people to access employability services 
 

Employee Volunteering – An Evaluation Toolkit

This section is aimed at employers who are interested in or are already developing their people's soft skills in a way that supports the long-term unemployed or disengaged young people.

Working with Ethnic Minority Clients

This toolkit highlights the issues which affect the employability of people from ethnic minority communities and builds on practice to assist individuals to feel confident they are using effective approaches 

Breaking down Language Barriers

These materials are intended to support the delivery of an ESOL and Employability Workshop.  They  focus on techniques which can be used to improve communication when dealing with non-native English speakers 

Homelessness & Employability Toolkit

The toolkit focuses only on those aspects that are specific to homelessness and is intended to be both a starting point and evolutionary in nature, being added to and amended as practice and research develops on a local and national basis.

Using Outreach to Tackle Worklessness

This guide looks at how local authorities and their partners may work together, in order to reach out to those who are disengaged from the labour market 

 

Leading by Example

A self assessment toolkit for councils, to support their role as employers dealing with local unemployment 


 

Appreciating Assets

Appreciating Assets goes behind the scenes of asset approaches and offers a critical but practical perspective of how these approaches have shaped and will continue to shape community development. 

A Good Practice Guide for Practitioners

This guide presents a practitioners' guide to supporting community enterprise in deprived areas.