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Theme 3: Generate jobs and learning opportunities

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Theme 3: Generate jobs and learning opportunities

For too many local people the pandemic has increased the barriers they face to employment, this is particularly true for our young people. We are committed to working with our partners to help people back into work and re-skill our existing workforce. Our nationally recognised employment programme Wolves at Work has responded rapidly to support those who have been made unemployed by the temporary downturn in our economy and will continue to work with a network of over 600 local business to secure new employment opportunities for local people. Wolverhampton remains a city of opportunity and working with further education providers and businesses we will identify the skills needed to drive forward the industries of the future and match skills to new jobs being created so that local people can achieve their potential.

Initiatives under this theme include:

  • We are expanding our Wolves at Work employment programme which has helped 5,150 local people into work in 3 years .
  • Wolves WorkBox, our bespoke one stop digital hub will provide access to training and employment opportunities for residents and businesses. It has supported more than 5,000 people in the last three months.
  • We are working in partnership with the West Midlands Combined Authority to grow and develop apprenticeship opportunities for our local young people and have already committed £100,000 to support new training opportunities.
  • City Learning Quarter is a partnership between the City of Wolverhampton Council and Wolverhampton College which will establish a £43m skills and learning hub, safeguarding hundreds of jobs and increasing footfall in the city centre as the scheme will see thousands of students located at the new city centre campus.
  • I54 western extension will lever in up to £300m private investment on top of the £1bn invested so far at the award-winning business park. Once completed the western extension will deliver a further 1,700 jobs for local people as well as strengthening local supply chains.
  • Our city is going to be at the heart of sustainable construction and the circular economy. The council is supporting calls for £25m investment in a the UK’s first National Brownfield Institute at Springfield, building on the University of Wolverhampton’s £100m investment there.

    • For more information about our plans for this theme, please view the 'Additional materials' below.

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