1. JOBBTORG STOCKHOLM
Good morning! My name is Helene Bengtson and I’m the director of Jobbtorg Stockholm, which would probably best be translated into ”Marketplace for Jobs in the City of Stockholm”
Jobbtorg Stockholm From social assistance to self sufficiency Helene Bengtson Managing Director

2. Social assistance in Stockholm
92 million Euros in 2007
households
A little more than individuals
In average 7 months out of 12
Single men and women without children the largest group
4 300 immigrants studying Swedish
heavy drug-abusers
45% between years of age
Approximately 50 % due to unemployment
Estimated target-group 1/1 2008: 7 500
In 2007, the economy in Stockholm was flourishing. The number of people receiving social assistance as well as the cost of social assistance was at a very low level. However, at the same time as the employers had difficulties in finding suitable employees, 50 % of the people receiving social assistance stated unemployment as the main reason for applying for social assistance.
JOBBTORG STOCKHOLM

3. Directions for Jobbtorg Stockholm
One entrance for all activities aiming to assist the unemployed receivers of social assistance into the labor market
Focus on jobs; our goal is to participate in and manage the process towards self-sufficiency through work or studies
The same service throughout the City of Stockholm (the principle of equal treatment)
Of the three pillars of active inclusion our focus is, obviously, access to the labor market
The Swedish Public Employment Service is commissioned by the Swedish Government to implement Government's and Parliament’s labor market policy objectives.
Even so, the municipalities are service providers in the field of social services including social assistance.
Therefore the City of Stockholm decided to establish Jobbtorg Stockholm with the sole purpose to assist receivers of social assistance into the labor market.
Our focus is self sufficiency through work or studies. We operate from 7 different locations within the City of Stockholm and we provide the same services throughout the city.
Our goal is to find the individual’s own sources and possibilities in the job market.
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4. A new idea? A permanent organization within the City of Stockholm
One goal being to cooperate with the Swedish Public Employment Service and the social insurance office
The use of contractors
To measure and follow-up the results equally for all units and equally over time
In the past, the city has operated within different projects with different kinds of financing for shorter or longer time periods.
Jobbtorg Stockholm is a permanent organization within the municipality.
We cooperate with the Swedish Public Service to provide job-seekers within our target-group with better assistance.
We use private providers too broaden our services.
As it’s important to measure our results, we’ve built a report-system to follow-up on what works and what doesn’t.
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5. Contractors 24 contractors
4 different subsidiary target-groups New immigrants, Immigrants studying Swedish, Youths, Others
Different programs A whole chain of activities leading to a job Limited activities such as shorter vocational courses, on the job training, job-preparation and motivation, ability-valuation
Legislation is very strict as to which contractor is chosen; there is a set picking-order for the different subsidiary target-groups and the different programs/activities
We work with 24 Contractors, private as well as NGOs. Our candidates are divided into 4 subsidiary target-groups, New Immigrants, Immigrants studying Swedish, Youths and Others.
The contractors provide different programs. Thera are programs including a whole chain of activities aiming to find and obtain a job and there are limited activities such as shorter vocational courses, on the job training, job-preperation and motivation .
We chose contractors due to subsidiary target-group and needed activity.
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6. Managing Director Helene Bengtson + Management team
Organization
Managing Director Helene Bengtson + Management team
Advisory Committee
Jobbtorg
Vårberg Centrum
Jobbtorg
Farsta Centrum
Jobbtorg
Rosenlunds-gatan
Jobbtorg
Vällingby Centrum
Jobbtorg
Kista Centrum
As I said earlier, Jobbtorg Stockholm are located in 7 different locations. The managers of each local Jobbtorg and I, form a management team for the organization.
Youths
Lunda
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7. “Stakeholders” District Administrations Trade and Industry
Department of
Education
Administrators
Matchmakers
Coaches
Candidate
Student guidance
IT-teachers
Contractors
Social insurance
office
Public
Employment
Service
Our work starts with the candidate. Within the organization we have about 80 coaches working close to the candidates and about 60 matchmakers working closely together with the local Trade and Industry.
We also have Student guides and IT-teachers.
I’ve already mentioned how we use our contractors.
Other important stakeholders are the district administrations as they provide social welfare allowence, Department of education as one of our goals is to make ore candidates study within the existing educational system.
Also the Swedish Public Employment System and the Social insurance office as we aim to be a partner for them as well.
Jobbtorg Stockholm
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8. Some numbers… 2008-01-01—12-31 9 771 registered
1 025 outside our target-group (redirected to the District Administration)
“no-shows”: approximately 22 % of the “signed-ups”
5 535 participants in December
3 635 have ended their process, excluding those redirected to the District Administration (the Social Welfare Services)
42 % of those in our target-group are thereby self-sufficient
2 400 participants in contracted programs/activities
250 participants in programs/activities held by departments within the District Administrations
Some numbers for our first year…
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9. What happens now? More people loose their jobs
Less people have unemployment insurance
More people come to Jobbtorg Stockholm
We have to offer more long-term programs
1 400 openings for on the job training in the City
Even closer cooperation with the Swedish Public Employment Service
More assistance for those furthest from the labor market as a mean to work against social exclusion
We need to try different ways of assisting the job-seekers. We develop different programs through projects, we find different ways to promote studying towards a profession, we try to find and create
special jobs within the City and we try to work even closer to the Swedish Public Employment Service wich provides our job-seekers with even more resources in the field of education and training.
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10. EUROCITIES NLAO
decentralised & comparative research on local active inclusion policies
social services: housing & employment
involvement of other stakeholders
financial support through PROGRESS
duration: March 2009 – August 2010
To follow up on our results is very important for Jobbtorg Stockholm. For that purpose, we have developed a report system.
Also, it´s important for us to compare with other cities and to learn from other experiences.
This is the main reason the City of Stockholm entered as a partner in the Eurocities NLAO project.
As employment/training is one of two focus areas, Jobbtorg Stockholm is an active part of the project.
I’ll just give you a brief overview of the NLAO project to end my presentation.
The EUROCITIES Network of Local Authority Observatories on Active Inclusion is a network of 5 cities (…) having set up observatories within their administration.
Those observatories conduct research, looking into how active inclusion policies are implemented on the local level, particularly with regard to social services.
The national research of the LAOs forms the basis for comparative research on the EU level (EUROCITIES Brussels office). => national reports + European reports
On both levels, the EUROCITIES-NLAO is engaging with other stakeholders to review their findings.
The project was launched in March and will last until Aug In the first project phase the EUROCITIES-NLAO focuses on social services in the fields of social & supported housing and employment/training.