At the moment, the City Region has a population of 1,650,000, of which 1,000,000 are of working age. Just over 65% of the population live in the five Tyne and Wear local authorities. Steady progress has been made in growing new enterprises and there is now more people in work than ever before.
Newcastle, Gateshead and Sunderland have witnessed significant economic growth over the past five to ten years.
The City Region has more people in work than ever before, but despite a period of sustained economic growth over the past decade, and changes to welfare policy, the proportion of working age population in employment has risen only slightly, and we still lag behind the national average
The skills base of the City Region’s labour force is improving, and at lower skills levels the area performs reasonably well, when compared to the national average – 64.5% of the working age population have a level 2 qualification, compared to 63.2% for England. At level 3 and above, our comparative performance does not compare as favourably, with only 42.4% achieving level 3 compared to 44.9% for England, and a bigger gap at level 4, with only 23.5% compared to a national average of 27.1%.
27-Jan-11
An Information Booklet has been produced, which provides further details on the Hanlon Data Management System and its implementation across the North East. The booklet is available to view here. ...
26-Jan-11
This report summarises the key points from an in-depth analysis undertaken on the latest Tyne and Wear City Region labour market statistics. ...
12-Jan-11
Hanlon Software Solutions have been awarded the ISO 27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS) certification from the British Standards Institution (BSI) for their online software, internal processes and systems. ...
