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Life Skills and Employability Support for Lone Parents

The Employ ULV project ‘Life Skills and Employability Support for Lone Parents’ have so far supported 387 Lone Parents since the inception of the project in November 2005.

The project is being run by a partnership led by Enfield College and is focused on the most deprived areas of Haringey, Enfield and Waltham Forest. Beneficiaries receive information, advice and guidance, help with job searches, personal development sessions and short bursts of learning to enhance their skills which will assist them in gaining employment. 

To date 111 Lone Parents have been assisted into employment, including three business start ups. Despite the excellent results of those entering employment, there are still some who are not quite ready. This could be due to waiting for their children to commence full-time education, domestic or health issues or language or numeric difficulties.

The project is continuing to work in partnership with local support agencies, Councils and Children’s centres to provide strategic solutions to these individual barriers.

Project Manager Andrew Ramsay is delighted with the progress that is being made. “The benefit of this project is that by helping Lone Parents into employment we are improving not only the parents’ income and self esteem, but also their children’s”.

For more information on the ‘Life Skills and Employability Support for Lone Parents’ programme please contact Andrew Ramsay on 0208 372 7630 or email: Andrew.ramsay@enfield.ac.uk

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