Toolkits

Linking Opportunity & Need

Within this section you’ll find toolkits to help develop and implement initiatives to effectively link opportunities and need, and to use Community Benefits as a means of increasing employability and training activity.

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LOAN Toolkit

This toolkit provides a source of information as well as practical advice, tools, templates and links to best practice case studies.

Linking Opportunity & Need Event - October 2009

This section contains a summary of an event delivered by the Employability Learning Network in partnership with Clyde Waterfront in October 2009. This event sought to identify opportunities and provide a platform for sharing information in relation to Linking Opportunity and Need.

Targeting Jobs & Training through Procurement

This ‘How to Guide’ provides economic development and employability practitioners with information to enable them to champion activity linking local employment and training benefits with procurement.

Can Do Toolkit

Developed by Inform to Involve for the Welsh Assembly Government, this toolkit aims to support social landlords to include ‘targeted recruitment and training’ (TR&T) requirements in Welsh Housing Quality Standard (WHQS) and other contracts.

Procurement Framework for Jobs and Skills

This Framework was developed for use by public and third sector organisations in the West Midlands who wish to increase access to jobs and skills opportunities for local people through the procurement exercises

Guide to Community Benefit Clauses

Access information, guidance, case studies and model clauses which can be used to secure community benefits in your next procurement exercise.