Prime Contractor Presentation

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Prime Contractor Presentation

• Donna Mackinnon
• Assistant Director, Development and Programmes
• Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

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SCVO Overview

• National organisation
• 1,400 voluntary organisations in membership
• Local and national voluntary organisations,
  Councils for Voluntary Service (CVS), specialist
  intermediary organisations

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SCVO Mission

• SCVO is a national organisation which seeks to
  advance the values and shared interests of the
  voluntary sector

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SCVO Strategic Objectives

• Build voluntary sector capacity and strengthen
  governance
• Increase the effectiveness of the voluntary
  sectors infrastructure
• Promote citizen action and civic engagement
• Improve the voluntary sectors contribution to
  better Scottish public services
• Promote civil society interaction locally,
  nationally and globally

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SCVO Services

• Organisational Development Support
• Workforce Development Support
• Information Service
• Policy, research and development support
• Parliamentary Information Service
• Payroll and other services for the voluntary
  sector
• Third Force News (TFN) weekly newspaper
• Good Moves voluntary sector recruitment agency
• Delivery of Employability programmes

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Overview of the Voluntary Sector

• 45,000 voluntary organisations
• 129,000 paid staff
• 1.2 million volunteers
• 410,000 trustees
• 3.2 billion annual income in 2006

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SCVO and Employment Initiatives

• Since 1998 New Deal 18 24 Voluntary Sector
  Option
• Work with Councils for Voluntary Service (CVS) to
  engage hundreds of local and national voluntary
  organisations
• Collective approach
• Policy level
• Scottish Voluntary Sector Employability Network

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What we Deliver - New Deal

• New Deal 18 24 Voluntary Sector Option
• New Deal 18 24 Environmental Task Force
• New Deal 18 24 Full-Time Education and Training
• New Deal 25 Intensive Activity Period (IAP)
• New Deal 25 Basic Employability Training (BET)
• New Deal Mentoring

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What we Deliver Specialist Programmes

• Progress2work
• Link Up
• In Work Support
• Moray New Futures

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Support to Unemployed People

• Individual Tailored Programme of Support
• Individual Assessment
• Personal Development Plan
• Work experience
• Work placement
• Jobsearch
• Training
• Personal Development, Motivation, confidence
  building etc
• Specialist support
• Mentoring
• Job matching
• Jobs

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Delivery Areas

• Prime Contractor
• Highlands and Western Isles
• Moray, Orkney and Shetland
• Sub-Contractor
• Tayside
• Grampian
• Contractor
• Ayrshire and Inverclyde
• Renfrewshire and Argyll

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Who we work with

• Local voluntary organisations
• National voluntary organisations
• Councils for Voluntary Service
• Voluntary sector intermediaries
• Training providers
• Private sector
• Public sector

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How we engage with voluntary organisations

• SCVO knowledge and local delivery team
• Voluntary sector networks
• Existing voluntary sector providers
• Scottish Voluntary Sector Employability Network

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Type of Support

• SCVO Client Liaison Officers
• Councils for Voluntary Service
• SCVO POP2 Administration System
• Career Development Toolkit
• Good Moves
• Policy Level e-bulletin, Voluntary Sector
  Employability Network

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How Voluntary Organisations can get involved -
Contracting

• Prime Contractor
• Sub-contractor
• Provider
• Contractor
• Specialist Support/Services

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Role of a Prime Contractor

• Contract with Jobcentre Plus
• Delivery of programmes across a Jobcentre Plus
  District
• Identify sub-contractors/partners
• Performance
• Quality and Continuous Improvement - Monitoring
• Effective management of provision
• Effective management systems
• Compliance
• Manage Sub-contractors
• Liaison with Jobcentre Plus and the DWP
• Financial Management

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Opportunities and Risk

• Opportunities
• Partnership approach to delivery
• Easing the risk for Sub-contractors
• Ability to involve smaller and specialist
  organisations
• Sharing expertise
• Risk
• No guarantee of client referrals
• Referrals to starts
• Financial Risks - Outcome based funding (50 in
  Scotland)

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Role of a Sub-contractor

• Contract with the Prime Contractor to deliver
  elements of the contract
• Delivery of quality programmes
• Performance
• Effective management of provision
• Continuous Improvement
• Participation in Partnership Meetings

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Good Practice

• Partnership approach
• Sub Contract in place
• Clear Financial agreements
• Ensure good cash flow to Sub-contractors
• Partnership meetings
• Monitoring
• Sharing systems
• Good Practice in Employer Engagement
• Networking Delivery Staff

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How Voluntary Organisations can get involved -
Delivery

• Work experience
• Personal Development, motivation, confidence
  building etc
• Training
• Jobsearch
• Specialist support
• Work Tasters
• Work Trials
• Vacancy information
• Employment opportunities

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Resources

• Work experience, training and jobsearch fees
• Specialist support
• Waged placements Wage Benefit Transfer
• Participant Travel Costs
• Jobcentre Plus Employment subsidy
• Work Trials

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Further Information

• Donna Mackinnon
• Assistant Director, Development and Programmes
• Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations
• Floor 3, Centrum Building
• 38 Queen Street
• Glasgow G1 3DX
• Tel [phone]
• E-mail donna.mackinnon_at_scvo.org.uk