Employability & Skills in Scotland Paul Kane Team Leader - Employability Services North Lanarkshire Council
“Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists” JK Galbraith “The first lesson of economics is scarcity...the first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics” Thomas Sowell
Employability & Skills in Scotland - Current context - Pipeline Model for Employability Services - Key employability activities and delivery agents policy drivers and priorities
North Lanarkshire Labour Market
Aged (total) - monthly from 2006 Scotland
Main out-of-work benefits Scotland
All people claiming JSA - monthly from 2006 Scotland
Summary
Cost of unemployment £56k is the average lifetime cost to public finances of a year old being out of work £43k is the average cost of processing a young person through the criminal justice system and keeping them in prison for a year
Employment story in Scotland is... - recession in the 90s - recovery in the 00s until recession and now ‘recovery’
Employability Pipeline pipeline/
New Programmes -ESF: Pipeline/ YEI/ Poverty & Social Inclusion - Devolution of Employability Services 2018: Work programme & mandated employability programmes
The Fair Work Portfolio aims to ensure the creation of a successful and more inclusive labour market, with a focus on how what happens in the workplace contributes to wider outcomes. The focus of the Division includes: Employment Policy Women’s Employment Youth Employment (Implementation of the Wood Commission’s recommendations) Living Wage Other Employability Issues on the horizon...
Access to Opportunities, North Lanarkshire's Employability Strategy for Priorities: -Engagement with those who need support to find work -Evidenced progression for service users toward a job -Targeting both need and opportunity
Access to Opportunities, North Lanarkshire's Employability Strategy for So far this year the programme has supported 680 young people into employment, 30% of whom have more than one barrier to employment e.g. health issues, low skills, poor educational attainment, long term unemployed
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