The i2i Can-do Toolkit provides guidance to registered social landlords building new affordable homes and working towards the Welsh Housing Quality Standards (WHQS) on making targeted recruitment and training a condition of contract when they appoint companies to carry out work on their behalf.
And conversely, now is the time for job seekers to make themselves more marketable by getting more training and using contract assignments as a way to get the on-the-job experience that employers like to see on resumes.
The charity Barnardo's welcomed the figures but called on the government to widen the scope of Youth Contracttraining to a broader group of young people.
Most firms do, Paige says, agreeing as a matter of contract, for example, not to pass on the cost of training summer associates or overhead as defined by the client.
But with Sunderland light on numbers and 18th in the Premier League Sbragia, who signed an 18-month contract to replace Keane on Saturday, is expecting to see Chopra in trainingon Tuesday.
Mr Miliband said the initiative was different from the government's Youth Contract in that it guaranteed a paid job on the minimum wage and on-the-job training, saying one of the government's work experience scheme was "the only work programme in history which does not guarantee work".