Victoria Beattie NoOne Left Behind Employability Policy Unit

Victoria Beattie No-One Left Behind Employability Policy Unit 2 October 2019

Overview • Background / Policy Context • No-One Left Behind – Employability Funding Stream • NOLB - Key Objectives • NOLB - Next Steps • NOLB - Parental Employability Support • NOLB - Key Dates

National Performance Framework Our Purpose To focus on creating a more successful country with opportunities for all of Scotland to flourish through increased well being and sustainable and inclusive economic growth. Our Values We are a society which treats all our people with kindness, dignity and compassion, respects the rule of law, and acts in an open and transparent way.

Supporting People Into Fair Working in partnership with LAs and others to create a truly person-centred system Reducing Child Poverty Halving the Disability Employment Gap Delivering Employability and related Services

Background / Policy Context • 2014 Cambridge Consultants review - cluttered landscape / lack of alignment • April 2017 Devolved employment support powers - opportunity to align services • April 2018 roll out of Fair Start Scotland - but a wider look at provision is also essential • March 2018 published No-One Left Behind - not just programme development, but systematic and cultural change.

No One Left Behind – Report on Review Key findings to take forward from the Review of Employability include: • • Flexibility of provision and funding Aligning funding and services and integrating with other provision Importance of long terms ‘key worker’ or mentor service Role of third sector provision Rural needs Measurement and outcomes Long term funding

Policy Principles - No One Left Behind Dignity and respect, fairness and equality and continuous improvement Provides flexible and person-centred support Is straightforward for people to navigate Integrated and aligned with other services Provides pathways into sustainable and fair work Driven by evidence including data and the experience of users Support more people to move into the right job, at the right time.

No One Left Behind Employability Funding Stream Funding from the following 6 programmes will be pulled into the No-One Left Behind Employability Funding Stream – over the two years to end March 2021. • • • Activity Agreements SERI Community Jobs Scotland Employability Fund Inspiring Scotland Fund – Our Future Now Discovering Your Potential

Aims of No-One Left Behind Employability Funding Stream • Focus on helping people OF ALL AGES find work, and stay in work • Place people at the centre of the design and delivery of coherent and seamless employability services • Deliver value for money by avoiding duplication and complexity in provision • Align services to make them seamless, coherent and accessible • Ensure smooth delivery of training following transfer of services • Explore opportunities for future co-investment; co-design and shared performance management

Parental Employability Support Fund (PESF)

History of Child Poverty Legislation In 2010 UK government enacted the Child Poverty Act • This set 4 income based targets to eradicate child poverty in the UK by 2020. • Some decreases in child poverty were experienced but commentators started to predict that “under any plausible scenario” the 2020 targets would be missed In 2016 UK Government abolished the Child Poverty Act. Scottish Ministers committed to reinstate statutory targets and that led to the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017

The Act sets in statue 4 ambitious targets for 2030 Relative Poverty (<10%) Combined Low Income and Material Deprivation (<5%) Absolute Poverty (<5%) Persistent Poverty (<5%)

Parental Employability Support Fund Lone Parents 41% Person with a disability 31% 3+ Children 32% Minority Ethnic 40% Youngest Child <1 32% Parents Aged<25 56% Proportion of children in relative poverty after housing costs, Scotland 2015 -18 - Family Resources Survey

3 KEY DRIVERS OF POVERTY

Parental Employability Support Fund Invest £ 12 million from the Tacking Child Poverty Fund Building on ‘what works’, focus on intensive key worker type support that provides: • person-centred help for parents to address barriers to work, including health, money advice, motivational support; • meets the increased challenge of in-work poverty; • targeted in-work support to help parents already in jobs to remain active in the workplace and gain progression; and • aligned with local employability support (NOLB), for example Fair Start Scotland. Partnerships opportunity to enhance existing projects and make a difference to people lives.

Outcomes…. . PESF outcomes could contribute to a reduction in levels of child poverty, helping achieve both the identified interim targets for 2023 and the 2030 targets. At an individual level: • The achievement of an increased hourly (annual) pay rate; • Increased skills through training; • Participation in employability support; • Parents entering or progressing in employment;

Connections and opportunities for alignment • Expanding Early Learning and Childcare • Out of School Activity • Disabled Parents Employability Support Fund (DPES) • ELC and Employability Alignment • Family and Adult Community Learning • Fair Start Scotland • Financial Health Checks • Local Child Poverty Action Plans • Fair Work Action Plan, Fairer Scotland for Disabled People, Gender Pay Gap Action Plan

Key Dates • Continue to deliver Fair Start Scotland will publish the first annual progress report by Autumn 2019. • Working closely with Local Government and their local partners to deliver the Parental Employability Support Fund by November 2019 to help those parents who face considerable barriers returning to work; and an additional £ 6 million from April 2020 to support disabled parents towards and into work • Agreeing a new national outcomes and shared measurement framework for employability provision – publishing interim indicators by December 2019. • Launching by January 2020, a new Employability Support Challenge fund, with the support of specialist third sector organisations, to support the specific needs of disabled people for whom mainstream employment support is not appropriate. • We will continue to deliver the Health & Work Support pilot with partners in Fife and Dundee. This is testing a new health and work access channel to support people with a health condition or a disability stay in or get back into work and will run until summer 2020. • Full roll out of NOLB in 2021/22

Questions? Victoria Beattie Ruth Cooper Laura Neill Sarah Mc. Ewan Fraser Mc. Kinlay Tricia O’Connor

Thanks for your attendance and contributions today. Renfrewshire Annual Employability Partnership Conference 2019 Inclusive Growth: No One Left Behind in Renfrewshire Johnstone Town Hall, Wednesday 2 nd October 2019