Connect with the South London Partnership

South London Partnership works in collaboration with the five boroughs across the sub-region to offer support to employers and improve the skills and employment landscape in the region. Explore the many ways we support businesses in South-West London to continue leading in inclusive and sustainable innovation.

The Integration Hub

The Integration Hub supports employers who want to create pathways into work for some of societies most marginalised individuals e.g. young people, people with disabilities, living with a long-term health condition and women returning to work. By connecting employers with support organisations, training providers and talented, historically overlooked people – we strengthen our local job market and social infrastructure.

Check out the Get London Working plan to see how the Integration Hub is working to implement the London Growth Plan locally.

The South London Careers Hub

Through the relationships with schools and colleges, the South London Careers Hub strengthens the connection between industry and education by facilitating valuable career focused experiences, placements, apprenticeships and simply engaging young people. We also support Health & Care employers who want to provide work experience, apprenticeships or placement opportunities to young people.

The SWL Social Care Workforce Hub

Employers Support – SWL Adult Social Care Workforce Hub

The Social Care Workforce Hub has its own website, hosting advice and support for social care employers.

The linked Employers Support page contains:

• A survey for collecting employer feedback, allowing the team to get in touch to see how best to support your work
• Adult Social Care Recruitment Guide by the Department of Health & Social Care
• Apprenticeship Employer Support Pack to guide through the process of hiring a social care apprentice
• Adult Social Care Health and wellbeing guide to help employers manage carer wellbeing
• A Positive Culture Toolkit for Adult Social Care published by Skills for Care
• Menopause Resources | CIPD provides advice for managing menopause in the workplace
• Employee Mental Health Support – cost-free advice for building a resilient workforce by Maximus

The South West London Social Care Workforce Hub supports businesses to:

• Support people into Health and Social Care opportunities.
• Identify which skills new talent will need to be successful in your industry.
• Connecting you with training providers teaching health and social care qualifications.
• Taking on a funded placement for an individual aged 18 to retirement age.

BIG South London

BIG, which stands for Business, Innovation & Growth, in South London is a new programme of support which brings together the world-class knowledge, expertise and facilities of six universities for the benefit and economic recovery of South London based businesses and communities. It is an ambitious and pioneering programme of activities crucial for unlocking opportunities for knowledge-based economic growth in the SLP boroughs.

Part of the effort to coordinate South London’s economic development is the South London Skills Summit 2025, where local businesses were brought together to provide their insights into the leading difficulties faced by the priority sectors of the Local Skills Improvement Plan. Find out more here.

BIG South has organised it’s own summit to facilitate this effort – Destination South London Summit. Bringing together 150 business leaders from across South London’s thriving sport, culture, heritage, and hospitality sectors, it explored how the sub-region can bolster its economy and strengthen its world-class visitor and experience offer. Find out more here.

Life Re-Worked

Life Re-Worked is the SLP’s own iteration of the government’s Trailblazer initiative, offering employment support for people facing barriers to work. This means that we can offer employers access to a pre-supported talent pool, including those who have received help with health, wellbeing, confidence and job readiness before being referred. Through candidate matching and pre-screening by delivery partners, we are able to provide more tailored referrals aligned with employer needs than high-volume applications.

The program can reduce the burden of recruitment and onboarding, as pre-employment support and in some cases training are already funded and delivered externally. It gives access to underutilised labour pools, including economically inactive people, disabled people and young people not in education or work. Help doesn’t end with recruitment either, with in-work support after hire – such as job coaching, caseworker support and ongoing liaison – to help sustain retention.

Connect to Work

Connect to Work is a voluntary programme funded by the UK Government to support disabled people or people with health conditions, and individuals with complex barriers to move into and maintain employment. It will also provide support to people in work but at risk of losing their employment, helping them to retain their jobs. Employers are also supported to take on participants.

Connect to Work will be delivered by Ingeus in Croydon, Kingston, Merton and Sutton, commissioned by Croydon the accountable body on behalf of South London, with Richmond Workmatch supporting residents in Richmond. The initiative will provide voluntary, personalised, and flexible support, including one-to-one coaching, job matching, and in-work support for both participants and employers.

In this way, Connect to Work can provide a talent pipeline to employers with support for existing staff members. Our local CtW can also offer their business space as a co-location.

Find out more on the Connect to Work page.