Policy information sourced from Enfield Core Strategy 2010-2025
16 TAKING PART IN ECONOMIC SUCCESS AND IMPROVING SKILLS
The Council is committed to tackling worklessness, creating new jobs in the Borough and working to ensure that local residents are able to access existing and new jobs. To complement Core Policy 8, the Council will work with its partners to:
- Encourage the Borough’s colleges and work-based learning providers to deliver vocational lines of learning, supporting the target growth sectors in particular;
- Explore the possibility of a establishing a new higher education/further education campus within the Upper Lee Valley with a new or existing education partner, developing clear links between education and training and the growth sectors of the economy, such as media or green technologies;
- Develop local employment partnerships as vehicles to strengthen links between educational establishments and the private sector;
- Concentrate available resources into the Borough’s place shaping priority areas in order to reach hard-to-serve populations and target the most disadvantaged areas;
- In the neighbourhoods with the lowest employment levels, integrate multiple interventions and mainstream services to deliver an integrated service through ‘Enfield’s Jobsnet’ and develop new outreach services such as the economic and community development trusts and partnerships in Ponders End and Edmonton;
- Promote good employment practices, such as the provision of flexible working opportunities to make jobs more accessible, combined with access to affordable childcare;
- Continue to work with employers to promote advancement opportunities and to tackle inequalities in progression in employment leads to women, black and minority ethnic groups, and disabled people being significantly under-represented in leadership roles and better paid occupations; and
- Undertake a Local Economic Assessment to inform the preparation of an Enfield Economic Development Strategy.
For more information please see the Core Strategy 2010-2025