1. Employability & Skills in Scotland Paul Kane Team Leader - Employability Services North Lanarkshire Council

2. “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

3. Employability & Skills in Scotland - Current context - Pipeline Model for Employability Services - Key employability activities and delivery agents - 2015-2018 policy drivers and priorities

4. North Lanarkshire Labour Market

5. Aged 18-24 (total) - monthly from 2006 Scotland

6. Main out-of-work benefits Scotland

7. All people claiming JSA - monthly from 2006 Scotland

8. Summary

9. Cost of unemployment £56k is the average lifetime cost to public finances of a 16-19 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

10. Employment story in Scotland is... - recession in the 90s - recovery in the 00s until 2008 - recession and now ‘recovery’

11. Employability Pipeline http://www.employabilityinscotland.com/employability-pipeline/the-employability- pipeline/

12. New Programmes -ESF: Pipeline/ YEI/ Poverty & Social Inclusion - Devolution of Employability Services 2018: Work programme & mandated employability programmes

13. 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...

14. Access to Opportunities, North Lanarkshire's Employability Strategy for 2015-2018 Priorities: -Engagement with those who need support to find work -Evidenced progression for service users toward a job -Targeting both need and opportunity

15. Access to Opportunities, North Lanarkshire's Employability Strategy for 2015-2018 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

16. 谢谢 Thank you