WORKING FOR GROWTH The Scottish Governments refreshed employability

WORKING FOR GROWTH – The Scottish Government’s refreshed employability framework Julie Bilotti & Joanne Farrow Scottish Government Employability Team

Achievements since 2006 • National stakeholder groups – Scottish Employability Forum, National Delivery Group, Third Sector Employability Forum • Employability and Tackling Poverty Learning Network • Client tracking systems • Strategic Skills Pipeline

Context for a different approach • • Impact of economic downturn Welfare Reform Christie Reform of Post 16 Education – Putting learners at the centre

Strategic and effective leadership • Strategic priorities – Economic growth and skills • Enhancing leadership – The Strategic Forum, the Economy Board, the Scottish Employability Forum, the National Delivery Group, the Third Sector Employability Forum

Greater integration and partnership working • Partnership with the UK Government and its providers • BASES for those seeking work and employers • Better partnership working at a local level

Towards Prevention – tackling inequality • Importance of person centred delivery • Tackling key barriers – recognising range of multiple complex barriers individuals can face including age, gender, childcare, poor physical or mental health, disability, ethnicity, offenders, drug and alcohol misuse, low/no skills and living in our most deprived areas

Improving performance • Learning from each other • Finding local solutions – Community Planning and SOAs, sustainable procurement • Targeting national resources – Making Training Work Better, Employability Fund, European Structural Funds • Working with the Third Sector

Next steps? • Testing some ideas this year with local partnerships • Action plan to be developed more fully with partners • Implementation monitored by SEF

Any questions? Julieann. bilotti@scotland. gsi. gov. uk joanne. farrow@scotland. gsi. gov. uk