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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

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Look What’s Cooking In The Kitchen

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Coventry teenagers are learning the recipe for success while getting a taste for careers in catering at a unique restaurant established by a training scheme.

The youngsters experience all the pressure and stress associated with working at a busy restaurant, and the satisfaction of sending customers home happy after a three-course meal.

However, it’s hardly Hell’s Kitchen – chef and tutor Charles Chittum displays the patience of a saint as he guides the groups of 10 young people through the trials and tribulations of the hospitality business.

The catering division of Pertemps Learning and Education Alliance (PLEA) provides a catering training initiative offering young people a real alternative to further education and a stepping stone to jobs in the catering industry. PLEA is part of Pertemps People Development Group (PPDG), one of the UK’s leading providers of Government-funded Welfare to Work initiatives and training opportunities.

Based in a converted hosiery factory at School Walk, Attleborough, Nuneaton, the kitchen and restaurant is kept busy providing lunch and dinner for local people, groups and clubs. It also caters for charity events.

Delivered by PLEA, the scheme each years offers around 40 young people ‘vocational taster’ training opportunities lasting from just a day to more than six months and guidance through the Entry to Employment programme since its launch in November 2002.

The Entry 2 Employment (E2E) courses can lead to qualifications and give an important insight into catering careers. Learners receive high quality training in food preparation, cooking and front of house restaurant service. They learn to make starters, main courses and sweets, how to set tables and serve customers correctly.

E2E is designed to provide vocational training, develop personal and social skills, and improve essential skills such as numeracy and literacy.

Centre manager Lisa Harrison, of PLEA, said: “Our catering section is something we are really proud of. We are always amazed at how much more confident people are after their time in the kitchen and the quality of the food produced by them is amazing. Our chef Charles Chittum and the young people that attend make it a really special place.”

She added: “Charles is fantastic. He’s not like Gordon Ramsay – he doesn’t shout or swear. He’s got lots of patience and helps everyone make the most of their time in the kitchen. As well as learning kitchen and catering skills, the young people leave with employability skills because they learn to work as a team and to meet deadlines.”

The project also works with local special schools delivering training for pupils out of school once a week. The young people have different barriers ranging from learning difficulties, behaviour difficulties and physical disabilities.

Anyone aged 16-24 who is interested in the learning programmes available at the centre in Attleborough can visit the centre or contact Lisa Harrison on 02476 709979.

Launched in Solihull in 1998 with just a handful of employees, PPDG has grown significantly and now employs 650 staff. It delivers employment and training initiatives helping disadvantaged job seekers in Birmingham, Solihull, West Bromwich, The Marches, Liverpool, Teesside and Islington access the workplace or self-employment. More than 60,000 job seekers have been helped into sustained employment since the projects began.