DISABLED and unemployed people on Teesside are to have more access to new skills to enhance their job options.
Funding for the construction of an Employment Action Centre, in Middlesbrough, has been secured with a £250,000 grant from the Community Fund.
The centre of excellence is to be built by national disability charity Shaw Trust and is due to be completed next spring.
It will be built next to Ayresome Industries, in Letitia Street, and will house the Shaw Trust's regional office and a number of projects including an information, communications and technology suite and a helpline.
By helping people into work, organisers hope to improve social contact, fulfilment and quality of life.
Clients to the centre will include disabled people, people who are long-term unemployed, disaffected young people, lone parents, ex-offenders and people from minority ethnic groups.
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