A total of £1,22,093 grant will be brought into the city by five new projects, which have been approved, under the second round of EMPLOYMENT.

All five projects will be delivered through Community Education working in partnership with the voluntary and private sector.

The projects are as follows:-

The Development of Key Skills – by improving the currency of key skills with employers and providing programme for over 200 adults.

Learning for Local Development – by engaging local people in 10 innovative pilots in order to create routes to employment and economic activity in areas of multiple disadvantage.

Increasing Access to Employment and Training for Adults with Physical or Sensory Impairments – by supporting trainers in accessing employment, becoming self-employed or starting small businesses and / or co-operatives.

Parents Into Training And Work – by testing out with European partners the approaches that provide for the best guidance for women and the pathways that are required for them to progress into training and work.

Part-time vocational Programmes For Women – In language skills, IT Interent Skills and European Awareness backed up by guidance, quality childcare and transport costs.

Councillor Kevin Maton, chair of training policy team said,

"This is fantastic news for Coventry, and since EMPLOYMENT concentrates on groups facing specific difficulties in the labour market and supports both vocational training and job creation activities for these groups, it will give hope and provide opportunities for those members of our society who are often those most in need."

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