East Manchester apprentice scheme
takes two awards at housing regeneration ‘Oscars’
The Renaissance Consortium has won two national Homes and
Communities Agency (HCA) Academy Awards for its apprentice scheme in Miles
Platting, east Manchester. The training scheme, set up to give local people
the opportunity to learn new skills and gain qualifications, won the Skills
for Better Places category of the national awards organised by the HCA, the
government’s national housing and regeneration organisation and judged by a
panel of industry experts.
In addition, the Miles Platting apprentice programme beat
all the other award winners – including housing associations, local
authorities and developers – to take the overall Co-operative Award for
Excellence at the awards ceremony held at the Roundhouse, north London.
"To win these two national awards is a tremendous
achievement which recognises the success of the apprentice training
programme and the life-changing benefits it has brought about for so many of
the young people involved."
Lovell People Development Manager Bruce Boughton.
