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Skills for Sandwell UKSPF

by Confederation of Bangladeshi Organisations (CBO)

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We aim to focus, in particular—but not exclusively—on improving access to skills development and employment opportunities within the health and care sector. This sector faces critical occupational shortages, yet the demand for services continues to grow, making it a priority area for workforce development and community impact. To achieve this, we will work in close partnership with Your Trust Charity (Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospital NHS Trust Charity). Through this collaboration, we aim to create pathways that enable local residents of Sandwell to gain the necessary skills, training, and qualifications to enter and progress within the health and care workforce. The ultimate purpose of this initiative is to ensure that Sandwell residents can access sustainable, long-term employment opportunities that not only benefit them and their families but also contribute to the resilience and quality of local health services. By strengthening the local workforce in this way, we anticipate positive, lasting impacts on both individual livelihoods and the broader health and care system in the community.

Staff qualifications	Staff qualified to deliver services.
Genders	All
Age focus	19-25 year olds, 26-65 year olds, 65+ year olds

About the organisation

CBO is an umbrella forum organisation and the overall vision is to improve the quality of life for all Bangladeshi and other BME groups living and working in the Sandwell Borough. Our aims include: promoting positive pathways into inclusion through an innovative intervention in education, training, learning & employment support, assist the implementation of anti poverty strategy which seals with most excluded individuals in the community through developing and expanding counselling, advocacy and support services for Bangladeshi in Sandwell. Development of a more transparent culture so that community development can be shared within a style of openness and trust, building new partnerships credibility in the communities and the agencies, increasing community pride and individual self confidence through skills development and managing local facilities, development and implementation of a range of community involvement and empowerment strategies to encourage the particiapation of the Bangladeshi community, especially those groups which are most excluded and/or hard to reach e.g. women, young people and elderly.