Awards:

East Manchester apprentice scheme takes awards at housing regeneration ‘Oscars’,

The Renaissance Consortium has won two national Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) Academy Awards for its apprentice scheme in Miles Platting, east Manchester.

Miles Platting apprentice programme beat all the other award winners – including housing associations, local authorities and developers – to take the overall Co-operative Award for Excellence at the awards ceremony held at the Roundhouse, north London. The training scheme – set up to give local people the opportunity to learn new skills and gain qualifications – had earlier won the Skills for Better Places category.

The national awards are organised by the HCA, the government’s national housing and regeneration organisation, and judged by a panel of industry experts.