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Boldon training company ties down contract in Oz

A SOUTH Tyneside training organisation has won three contracts to deliver its programmes in Australia.

Training in Childcare Limited, and its subsidiary business The Care People, have been invited to create a training and employment programme for aboriginal people in Alice Springs and Darwin in the Northern Territories and Moree in New South Wales.

The programme provides the unemployed with training towards a recognised qualification in both child and adult care; then offers them jobs through the creation of a social enterprise employment agency, owned and operated by the workers themselves.

The pilot projects were awarded to the Boldon based firms by the Australian government’s Aboriginal Employment Strategy (AES) during a UK Trade Mission to Melbourne and Sydney.

And, if the schemes are successful, the project may be rolled out across the continent.

Angela Brown CEO of both Training in Childcare and the Care People said: “The AES has commissioned us to design three pilot schemes to help the long-term unemployed indigenous population enter or return to the workplace.

“The schemes will be based on the original childcare training and employment model we launched with the help of David Miliband MP in South Shields in 2006. We further developed this to incorporate adult services and introduced it to Sunderland in 2007 with the support of Back on the Map.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .