Employment and skills transcript

Martin Eaton:  It would be nice in years to come to say "Daddy worked on there"... plus maybe take them to some of the events.

Steve Sugden: I'm loving it, I said on the day that it was announced, I said that I'm going to work on that.. and here I am.

Andy Newell: There has been a massive emphasis to develop this college in a relatively short space of time, and working with the ODA, with the college has been fantastic.

Paul Turner: If I can get a job after getting my licence on the Olympic site that would be fantastic.

Martin Eaton:  The more qualifications, more training. The more you get, the better it will be.

Steve Sugden: They've given over a part of their Olympic site to set up this training school, and that's given our local people access to the plant training that hopefully then leads them into the work on the site.

Howard Shiplee: Under the overall heading of the National Skills Academy for Construction, which links everything together, under that designation what we are really doing is bringing together the public and private sectors to work on opportunities to up-skill people and to provide them with skills for the future.

Martin Eaton: I feel confident now, you know. Hopefully I've passed today and my instructor's confident I could go and work on the job.

Paul Turner: There's a lot of people out there with no work. If they've come and done the training, they've got more chance of getting employment.

Steve Sugden: You can look over the fence and you can see the work going on and I think that is an encouragement for the people training here, but it also means that the contractors can look the other way and see what's happening here and say, right, we've got people being trained here - let's try them.

Andy Newell: We're getting people into work.

Ash Miah: The employment skills strategy has been pushed by the ODA for local people in the boroughs that should be benefiting from the Games.

Chris Collings: I don't think I've seen people of that kind of quality, and we're placing people on a regular basis.

Ash Miah: We're getting good job outputs. We're also getting very good feedback from the contractors on the level of people who are starting work on those contracts.

Douglas Frimpong: If I don't have skills, then because of this place, now I have skills to work in the Olympic Park.

Howard Shiplee: Working with our partners in Hackney, Greenwich, Waltham Forest and Newham, and Tower Hamlets, together with our partners at Jobcentre Plus and the LDA, we're absolutely determined, and we're demonstrating, jobs for people here and a future for people with the Olympics as the mechanism to achieve that.

David Higgins: The regeneration of this part of east London must be built on economic success, and jobs is really, really important, particularly in this area, this local area, which has had a high level of unemployment. So that's what our focus is on.

Ash Miah: We've all come together to make sure the agenda for 2012 is done correctly. The Games has to happen in 2012, and we've got to deliver that, and if it means local people benefit from training into work then that's what we're here for.