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The council worked with a wide range of partners across the education, construction, and employment sectors to create a partnership aimed at ensuring local people directly benefit from skills and employment opportunities through the delivery of the council’s £1bn regeneration programme and housing improvement programme.

The council worked closely with key partners in North Hertfordshire College and Job Centre Plus to ensure that local people could benefit from the construction works going on in the town, from private regeneration schemes to Council-delivered housing improvement contracts. The partnership has evolved and formed strong relationships with active contractors and developers in the area, as well as public bodies such as Construction Industry Training Board (CITB). The partnership will ensure that on-site construction experience, apprenticeships and job opportunities are made available to local people as part of the council’s community wealth building programme, which aims to ensure the benefits of local economic activity are captured and maximised.

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