Agenda item

Director of Community and Children’s Services.

The Board received the report of the Director of Children’s and Community Services updating Members on the Connecting Communities programme.

The Board noted the recent rise in unemployment, and noted (in response to a question) that the end-of-period evaluation would be conducted by Central London Forward. A Member commented that getting 300 people into sustained employment represented a 6% return – noting also that that figure was from a hard-to-reach group, and that it was important to learn lessons from the exercise, particularly given the level of investment. The Board noted that the CoL would be carefully examining the outcomes of the evaluation.