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CXL puts Families First

With young people’s attitudes to education and employment formed at an early age by family role models, social business CXL has launched an innovative pilot in the Shadsworth and Whitebirk areas of Blackburn, which aims to break the unemployment cycle that can exist in families, leading to young people becoming NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training).

Lancaster and Morecambe businesses “missing out” say recruitment experts

Lancaster and Morecambe businesses are missing out by not employing young people, according to Lancashire recruitment experts CXL.

CXL scoops top customer service award

CXL’s Business and Meeting Centre has won a prestigious regional award for its first class service to customers.

Cash Boost for East Lancs Employers

Businesses in East Lancashire are set to benefit from nearly £1m to help them survive and thrive through the economic downturn.

CXL charity fundraising smashes all targets

Staff at CXL have smashed their own target by raising an amazing £3249.21 in support of their sponsored charity Nightsafe.

Blackpool MP views innovative education retention package

Blackpool South MP Gordon Marsden dropped in on a seminar showcasing an online careers package that’s been developed to identify and support students who are at risk of dropping out of college.

Award winning offenders project reaches completion

15 July 2008

Representatives from an award-winning project to help offenders get back on track met to celebrate the initiative’s successful completion on 9 July.

Offenders in the Community focuses on getting offenders – both in custody and in the community – into learning, training and employment. Spearheaded by Lancaster and Morecambe College, the project combined the resources of CXL and other partners from the National Probation Service, Jobcentre plus and FE providers, to offer one-to-one support for offenders, something not widely available elsewhere in the UK.

The celebration event, held at Lancaster and Morecambe College, marked the culmination of the 17 month-long project during which over 850 offenders received information, advice and guidance and 160 went on to enter learning and work.

CXL also offered key work support to offenders at HMP Kirkham to provide a ‘through-the-gate’ service prior to their release.

“This has been an outstanding partnership project that has made a real impact on the lives not only of offenders themselves but their families and the local community” said Mark Willett, Strategic Manager (Adult Services) at CXL.

Project Co-ordinator Joanna Maloney said: "A key factor in the project’s success has been the integrated one stop referral arrangement from the National Probation Employment and Learning Offices direct to the Key Workers with a tracking and follow up system which keeps the National Probation Service informed on a weekly basis of the progress the offenders are making".

The Offenders in the Community project won a Highly Commended in the Opening Doors to Adult Learners’ category in this year’s NIACE Adult Learners’ Week awards. 

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