Mapping Employability enabling partnership

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Mapping Employabilityenabling partnership

• Billy Lynch
• Manager
• Open Door Fife
• Veronica MacMillan
• Capacity Building Coordinator
• Wise Move

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WISE MOVE

• Greirson Report Recommendations 2001
• New Way of Working with agencies - capacity
  building
• Aspirational approach - progressing clients
• Coordinated Employment Agency
• Twin approach / Strategic overview

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Capacity Building

• Employability forums
• Common employability assessment
• Awareness raising frontline staff
• Employability resources sessions
• Mapping range quality of provision / ongoing
  review
• Coordinated approach

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Employability Homelessness

• Lack of clarity
• Duplication
• No co-ordination / partnership
• Lack of consistency accountability
• Lack of employer / employment focus
• barrier rather solution focus

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Coordinated ApproachSectoral Development Plan

• Mapping Employability within homelessness
• Measuring quality range of delivery Evaluation
  / review tool

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Mapping Framework(New Futures Framework)methodol
ogy

• Employability definition / framework (what?)
• Section 1 - soft skills
• Section 2 - job preparation search - getting
  the job or opportunity
• Section 3 - aftercare - sustaining the job or
  opportunity
• Semi-structured questionnaire (how?)
• Surveyed 7 agencies (8 employability efforts)
• Employment Pathways database Outcomes Partnership
  CCP

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Applying A MeasureValidity

• Structure of programme
• Numbers engaging element of employability
• percentage progressing/sustaining engagement
• Assessment
• Monitoring evaluation
• Staff specification qualification/training to
  deliver
• Physical resources
• Devising a scale (1 7) 5 being an industry
  standard
• Numerical scale qualitative data

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Research Example Organisation X
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Summary of Findings

• Process / overview / reflection
• Clarity
• Expertise exclusive?
• Duplication Gaps
• Tapering out of provision sects 1 - 3
• Potential for Partnership increase access to
  opportunity

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Recommendationsfrom Mapping Coordinated
Approach

• Integrating employability Culture change
  Frontline staff training employability soft
  progression
• Employment focused programmes coordinated
  delivery consortium
• Links to employers awareness / support /
  sustaining opportunity hard outcome
• Sectoral Development Plan - baseline / standard
  / review / consistent tools / client progression
• Potential to measure impact for commissioning
• Deliver Clarity Accountability

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Coordinated Approach stages