TSP works in partnership with Remploy, a national provider to deliver this employability project that helps Wirral residents with multiple barriers to employment, gain meaningful and sustainable work opportunities. Funded through Wirral Borough Council, the project reaches into the heart of some of Wirral’s most deprived areas. The objective of the project is to provide local solutions to communities by offering personalised development packages of support that are aimed at reintegration and signposting to available mainstream services.

The project helps people that are in vulnerable situations regarding housing, drug/alcohol misuse and criminality. Many of the clients are estranged from family and friends and are long term incapacity benefit claimants. The project aims to provide a menu of support to help improve health and well being , access to treatment and employability development courses.

One of our clients that came for help due to substance misuse had spent many years in prison. After completing a rehabilitation course he was referred to The Social Partnership as he wanted to go to college to study for a Criminology degree and go into support work to help others that have criminality issues. Due to his own criminal background he was refused entry onto the course from every college and university that he applied to. With our assistance he was eventually accepted onto another course that would take him in the same direction. The project also helped him to access relevant voluntary work after which he quickly gained full time employment. He is now proud to be supporting other people who have come out of prison and uses his own experiences to provide hope for the future for his newly released clients. He recently moved out of supported housing and into his own accommodation.