Refugee Employment - Trellis

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Trellis now has its own website, access it here.

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The Trellis Project aims to transform the experience of refugee jobseekers in Birmingham through a new and dynamic partnership between:

Birmingham City Council
Employability Forum
Jobcentre Plus
Learning & Skills Council
Refugee Employment, Training and Advocacy Forum (RETAF)
West Midlands Local Government Consortium

The project aims to:

Make services more user-friendly for refugee job-seekers
Introduce systematic and efficient routing for refugees into employment
Strengthen refugee and migrant community participation in design and delivery of services
Raise employer awareness of the skills and experience of refugees
Highlight and promote best practice in terms of recruitment and employment.

In 2006, the Trellis project commissioned research into the experiences of refugees seeking employment locally. Issues surrounding Jobcentre Plus provision were explored in detail. A pdf version of the report is available here.

Trellis is funded by the Invest to Save Budget.

For more information and to get involved, please contact Dee Narga, Programme Manager.

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