Backing Young Bury Anne Gent Jobcentre Plus Tracey

Backing Young Bury Anne Gent - Jobcentre Plus Tracey Flynn – Bury Council

Backing Young Bury • Team Bury launched its Backing Young Bury campaign in 2012 with a view to: • Increase the number of corporate apprenticeships over the next three years in line with workforce planning and external labour market intelligence • Expand the offer of work experience placements within the Council • Promote young people and apprenticeships to local businesses – Bury College and the Work Based Learning Network • Support and add value to the Greater Manchester Commitment to Youth Employment

Backing Young Bury Employment and Skills Task Group Co-ordinated effort to engage with employers and make it as easy as possible to employ a young person Sub Group to oversee and coordinate activity: • Bury Council: Communities Section Organisational Development 14 – 19 Team, Children's Services Bury Employment Support and Training, Adult Services Connexions • • Jobcentre Plus Training Provider Network Skills Funding Agency Bury College

Connecting Provision Activity 6 weeks work experience incorporating 1 hour per week motivational sport activity b jo l na or p er hi xt es h l/e tic wit na r te 1 day a week Employability Training 26 n /i ng i in en a tr pr Ap Partners JC+ Connexions Work Programme Providers Team Bury Partners Work Based Providers Local Businesses Groundwork 16/17 Youth Contract ESF Families with Multiple Problems w an eek d jo be supp b w sp or ith ok t i n tr e tra clu aini din ng ng g Journey Starts Engage 10 16 – 24 year olds furthest away from securing employment. Criteria agreed by partners Further job search support and links to employers

Connecting Local Provision ESF Families Provision 1: 1 Support Sportivate 1 hour free motivational activity GM Commitment Grant £ 1, 100 after 26 weeks Youth Contract Funding £ 2, 275 after 26 weeks Backing Young Bury Investment Adult Learning Employability Skills Bury Employment Support and Training 1: 1 Support GM Commitment Grant £ 600 for work experience vouchers Weekly Travel Allowance Jobcentre Plus/WPP

Connecting Provision Activity The rationale is to work with those young people who have multiple barriers to securing employment • • • Care Leavers Ex Offenders/risk of offending From families with complex barriers/troubled families Work Programme customers Jobcentre Plus 6 months unemployed These young people are potentially the ones who may cost public services the most money now and in the future If successful the investment should yield a reduction in intervention costs and an increase in income tax and spend in the local economy

Backing Young Bury Challenges and Barriers Challenging our own recruitment procedure • Why do we ask for A-C Maths and English for a Waste Management Apprenticeship? • Why don’t we create apprenticeships that the young people we are working with want? Offer a wider variety not just admin posts • Creating a Flexible Recruitment Policy • Accepting work experience as a working interview

Backing Young Bury Challenges and Barriers • Persuading supervisors and managers to support young people who have complex barriers • Convincing Unions that the roles are not replacement for posts under review • Challenging HR to think in a different way

Backing Young Bury Next Steps • A new intake in September 2013/consider incorporating traineeships • Alignment with Troubled Families/Add value • Investment in the model with external businesses • Establish an Employment and Skills Gateway (contribution to the Greater Manchester Apprenticeship Hub) • Promote apprenticeships and other positive destinations in schools and colleges • Prepare young people for employment (partnering with local business leaders) • Meet the skills needs of local businesses (ask them what they need) • Make it as easy as possible for businesses to recruit young people • Create the opportunities that young people want and the economy need

Connecting Provision Activity

Backing Young Bury Any Questions? Email Anne. Gent@dwp. gsi. gov. uk t. flynn@bury. gov. uk Find us on Facebook