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1. Integrated Regional Skills Programme Issue 15 Working Capital November 2015 4 All In Edinburgh Progress and Developments Since All In Edinburgh launched in April 2015, the initiative has gone from strength to strength. Staff from each of the four organisations, Enable Scotland, The Action Group, Forth Sector and Intowork and have bonded quickly and are demonstrating examples of best practice across the areas of disability they support; this has provided an excellent base to build the service from. Within five months, they have already reached their first year target of supporting 500 people and now aim to reach out to another 300 people. To promote this consortium-led approach for supported employment, a learning conference, digital resource tool and a research-based evaluation are currently in development. The conference will be held in Edinburgh on the 25 th February 2016. The intention is to provide an informative conference focused on why a consortium approach has been adopted, what the benefits of the approach are and how local authorities throughout Scotland can replicate the consortium approach. Further information will be posted on the Joined Up For Jobs noticeboard. For more information Lianne.Williams@enable.org.uk 1 The Development of City Region Deal “City Region Deal” is an opportunity for city regions to negotiate a new relationship with UK and Scottish governments, and a partnership of six authorities (City of Edinburgh, Fife, Scottish Borders and East, Mid and West Lothian Councils) have come together and submitted an ambitious proposal to build a stronger more inclusive regional economy, with a vision that; “In the next 20 years the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region will become the most connected, most creative, most inclusive and most entrepreneurial place in Europe. We will build a network of businesses, universities, technical and creative skills attracted by a great lifestyle and cultural offer.” The proposal is themed around Skills, Knowledge and Innovation, Infrastructure, Culture, Housing, and Digital Development. The skills element comprises seven interlinked interventions that complement, augment, or adapt existing interventions to increase the impact of our collective investment: • Labour Market Analysis: providing enhanced intelligence gathering and analytical capacity that will better track and predict labour market “demand & supply” trends. • Integrated Business Support working with existing structures to build our collective knowledge base and relationship with businesses and aid better job matching and curriculum development. • Integrated Case Management providing a streamlined employability and skills service that works with the Business Support Service to route unemployed, low paid, or underutilised people into good sustained employment. • Business Led Academies that strengthens the working between employers and our learning providers in delivering a skills programme that supports our key growth sectors and helps boost productivity and earnings. • Developing the Young Workforce: that develops “Centres of Excellence” in conjunction with a virtual campus approach to enhance curriculum quality and access to learning. • Online Talent and Skills Bank: that provides an interactive shop window for job and up-skilling opportunities, with integrated support, that aims to stimulate skills development that is in step with demand, while improving skill utilisation and workforce flexibility. • Workforce Mobility: that uses subsidised travel and similar measures to ensure all citizens in the region benefit from the opportunities that are generated. Now the outline proposition has been submitted, work is beginning on developing these themes into detailed projects, interventions and supporting measures, for a planned start in early 2016. For more information w www.acceleratinggrowth.org.uk
Issue 15 Working Capital November 2015 5 The latest JUFJ Providers Forum The Joined Up For Jobs (JUFJ) Providers forum in August had the highest attendance this year with over 60 people present on the day. The day started with presentations about the new supported employment service, All In Edinburgh, and an update on Joined Up For Business. The rest of the forum focused on the Scottish Government Consultation ‘Creating a Fairer Scotland: Employability Support’. The guest speaker was Colin Robertson, Employability Policy Lead, Fair Work Directorate, Scottish Government. Colin’s presentation outlined the consultation purpose and timescales and was based on the Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work, Skills and Training – Ms Roseanna Cunningham’s statement delivered during a parliamentary debate in April 2015 that the Scottish Government had “ambition to deliver employment support services in Scotland that will better help unemployed Scots into work, and better meet the needs of our labour market, and drive sustainable economic growth.” This new service would replace Work Choice and the Work Programme and would be based on the following key principles: • design and deliver effective, sustainable and appropriate employment support in Scotland: seamless support to those on the journey into work; • not simply replicate existing approaches, but aim for asset based approach that compares with the best national and international practice; • robust, costed and evidence based approach; • a consultative approach to policy development - empowering communities and individuals in shaping the public services they receive; • build on our existing delivery strengths; • work closely with the UKG/DWP on transfer of knowledge and expertise and learn what they know – and what we need to know from that. Colin reiterated that the Scottish Government needed to have input from services with experience of delivering employment services and draw on the best practice as well as learning from mistakes from previous programmes. After Colin’s presentation, Jim Rafferty (CEO, Capital City Partnership) and Brian Martin (Head of Employability and Skills, CEC) joined Colin at the top table and took questions from the floor. Members asked questions relating to how JobCentre Plus fitted into the new service, the extent of the devolved powers under the Scotland Act and the amount of money the Department for Work and Pensions intends to transfer to Scotland to pay for the service. Following this, members moved into workshop groups to consider how to respond to the questions. Those responses have now been collated and submitted to Scottish Government by the JUFJ Policy and Strategy Sub Group. A copy of the submission can be found on the Joined up for Jobs Website. For more information w www.joinedupforjobs.org.uk/serviceproviders/jufj-providers-forum Updates from the Sub Groups Addictions This subgroup is currently chaired by Bert Craig. Recent topics have included how to best approach someone that you believe to either be drinking or taking drugs. Mental Health & Disability The most recent meeting of this subgroup was chaired by Mark Brown. The group has decided to focus on the concerns and issues of the frontline staff. One focus is to look at ways of developing better employer links in order to obtain greater and better opportunities for the client group. Long Term unemployed This subgroup is currently chaired by Grant Thoms. The group met in the summer and heard from Dughall Laing from Recruit with Conviction which led to discussions about practice issues in working with people with convictions. The meeting in November focused on mental health with SAMH leading the focus. Policy & Strategy Brian Thompson currently chairs this subgroup. The group met in the summer to analyse the ‘Creating a Fairer Scotland’ consultation document and decided to take this to the forum for discussion. Susan McLaughlin compiled the feedback and the JUFJ response was finalised at the following subgroup meeting. Future meeting dates for all subgroups will be published on the JUFJ noticeboard.
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