City Strategy Pathfinder

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City Strategy Pathfinder

• Eve WaiteDirector of Employment Programmes
• Sheffield City Council

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City Strategy Pathfinder

• In June 2007 15 City Strategy Pathfinder areas
  announced at the Welfare Reform Conference
• Test how best to combine the work of
  local/national agencies, voluntary organisations
  and employers in local partnerships- to provide
  the support jobless people need to find and
  progress in work

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City Strategy Pathfinder

• Priority Aim
• To assist economically inactive individuals
  into work
• Target Group
• Those Claiming working Age Benefits (Feb
• 2008)
• Jobseekers Allowance - 8,300
• Incapacity Benefit - 24,700
• Lone Parents - 6,730

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Distance Travelled

• Partners signed up to one
• Vision
• Delivery Model
• Resource Plan
• Delivery Model - Core Offer
• Support pre and post
• employment
• IAG
• Skills

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Employer Led

• Work Skills Board
• Employers Executive
• Innovations Group
• Skills Strategy
• Skills Passport

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Employer Support

• Train to Gain Action Plan

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Getting Involved

• citystrategypathfinder_at_sheffield.gov.uk
• Delivering the Workforce of the Future
• Telephone [phone]