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Cardiff Council Update: 16 August 2022
Here is our latest update, covering: a new online platform to help young people decide what comes next; and a milestone has been hit on the journey towards creating innovative council apartments for older people.
Help to decide What's Next for young people
A wealth of information on education, employment, training and other opportunities is available all in one place for young people in Cardiff considering their next steps ahead of this week's exams results day.
What's Next is an online platform for 16 to 24-year-olds that pulls together useful information all in one place that will help young people decide their next steps, making it quicker and easier to find out about available options for the future.
The platform was launched and developed last year by the Cardiff Commitment - the Council initiative that brings together the public, private and third sectors in partnership, with schools and education providers, to connect children and young people to the vast range of opportunities available in education, training and the world of work.
The site includes information on going to college, university, preparing for work, internship, traineeship and volunteering opportunities, jobs and apprenticeships and even information on starting a new business.
Visit the platform at:
Read more here:
https://www.cardiffnewsroom.co.uk/releases/c25/29669.html
A short animation about the What's Next platform is available to watch here:
Work on innovative council apartments for older people hits milestone
On an elevated site with spectacular views over the Bristol Channel to the south and the Brecon Beacons to the north, the new Aspen Grove development will see more than 200 low carbon homes completed in phases before the summer of 2024.
Built through the Cardiff Living programme, a development partnership between Cardiff Council and Wates Residential, the scheme has benefited from more than £4m of Welsh Government Innovative Housing Programme (IHP) funding that will help to create 65 new council homes, including a mix of 21 two-, three- and four-bedroom houses.
The most significant element of the site, though, is Addison House, a four-storey block containing 44 one- and two-bedroom apartments designed to meet the needs of older people and the first of 10 such ‘Community Living' developments to be built across the city as part of Cardiff Council's Older Persons' housing strategy.
The council and developers staged a ‘topping out' ceremony marking the completion of the highest point of the block. It is expected that the flats will be completed and ready for tenants next July.
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