6,450 people are currently working on the Olympic Park and 2,909 are working on the Olympic Village.
- Of the current 6,450 strong Olympic Park workforce (the figures below do not apply to the Olympic Village):
Almost one in five (19%) are resident in the five Host Boroughs – Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest - this is above the target of Host Borough residents making up at least 15% of the construction workforce. Over half live in London (52%).
3,101 training places have been delivered through the National Skills Academy for Construction including the Plant Training Centre and Thames House Training centre in Newham set up to provide training and work opportunities on the Olympic Park and other construction sites.
The ‘Jobs, Skills, Futures’ strategy to boost the Olympic Park jobs and skills legacy includes:
- A jobs brokerage service, in partnership with Jobcentre Plus and the five Host Boroughs, that matches candidates living locally and elsewhere in the UK with Olympic Park job opportunities. Since May 2008, 915 jobs have been filled through the brokerage, which gives local people 48 hours to access jobs before they are advertised more widely.
- A National Skills Academy for Construction funded by ConstructionSkills, the Learning and Skills Council and the London Development Agency. This coordinates training across a range of providers, which now includes the Thames House Training Centre, in addition to a Plant Training centre for people to get the skills needed to win work on the Olympic Park and continue their career development once in work.
- A commitment to an additional 250 apprenticeships to be created on the Olympic Park and Olympic Village, a total of 350, including through the introduction of a specific requirement to take on apprentices in future contracts. This clause sets a target of three per cent for apprentices in the future workforce of projects currently being procured. Currently 242 apprentices have been recruited onto the project.
Notes to editors:
- To ensure transparency regarding the workforce, the ODA collect and publish figures on the Olympic Park workforce, collected through the enrolment process. The figures can be downloaded at: http://www.london2012.com/publications/employment-and-skills-update-july-2010.php
- Workers included in the Olympic Park and Olympic Village statistics are those who have spent at least five days working on the site over the period of measurement applied.
- The more detailed breakdowns of the contractor workforce apply solely to the Olympic Park workforce at this stage.
- Only Olympic Park workers that give a permanent address in one of the five host boroughs are counted as local. We are reliant on the accuracy of the information provided by workers at their point of enrolment.
- The ODA does not have a minimum period of residence in a host borough before a person is classed as resident there. This convention is used by numerous other public authorities including Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, Local Taxation and Valuation, amongst others, which deems a person to be a resident in an area from the day they move permanently to the specific address.
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