Developing and Evaluating Economic Development Plans

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Care Barriers to Employment and Training in the
South West
Workshop by Nigel Tremlett for South West
Employment and Skills Forum8th January 2004
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Purpose of workshop

• To inform you about the research and its progress
  to date and
• To help to fill gaps in the secondary source data
  so far identified, by
• Identifying further research, data, sources of
  information, etc and/or
• Discussing appropriate means of collecting
  missing information via primary research

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Research Objectives

• To map carers in different age bands and types
• To map legislation, funding and initiatives
• To identify gaps in policy and provision acting
  as barriers to
• Carers participation in employment in training
• Employers recruitment of carers
• Advice and guidance providers support for carers
• Public, private and voluntary sector training
  providers support for carers

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Research Phases

• Interim report
• Highlighting early findings for each objective
• Identifying gaps in available information
• Full reports
• A full report for each of the 6 objectives
• Identifying findings at regional and sub-regional
  level and highlighting good practice
• Dissemination
• Sub-regional workshops
• Regional conference

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Research into the Barriers to Employment and
Training for Carers


European legislation
National legislation
Regional/sub-regional policies and programmes

Carers (By age lt19, 20-45, 46-64, 65
years) (By type of care Children/Elderly/Disabled
/Others)


Training providers
Employment
Advice guidance
Training providers
Employment
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Main analysis categories

• Carer type
• Young
• Elderly
• Disabled
• Others

• Carer age
• gt 19
• 20-45
• 46-65
• 65

• Carer sub-region
• South West LLSC areas

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Workshop Part 2

• (Some of)
• The Gaps
• And The
• Possible Solutions

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Gap 1 Barriers to Carers Engagement in
Employment, Training and Education

• Reasonable range of secondary sources available
• Some quantitative information at national level,
  but mostly qualitative
• No differentiation by age, type or sub-region
• Most reports cover employment few on training
  or education these are major two gaps
• Proposed means of filling gap qualitative
• Three focus groups with 8-10 carers at each
• One each for employment, training education
• Cross-section of carers (by type and age)

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Gap 2 Barriers to Employers Recruitment of
Carers

• Reasonable secondary sources available
• Some quantitative information at sub-regional
  level (LSCs employers surveys)
• Some at national level
• Some case study information available
• Still a few gaps primarily around difficult
  issue of why employers chose not to recruit
  carers
• Proposed means of filling gap qualitative
• Two focus groups with 8-10 employers at each
• One for those already employing carers and one
  for employers not already employing carers
• Cross-section of employers

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Gap 3 Barriers to Information, Advice and
Guidance Providers Support for Carers

• Narrow range of secondary sources available
• A new report from IES is due shortly covering IAG
  providers perspective
• Limited information on carers views or examples
  of good practice
• Proposed means of filling gap qualitative
• Incorporate into carers focus groups for gap 1
• Collecting missing information from carers
  perspective of barriers to IAG support

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Gap 4 Barriers to Public, Private and Voluntary
Training Providers Support for Carers

• Limited range of secondary sources available
• Focus of most research is from carers perspective
  little from perspective of providers
• Some examples of good practice, but often at very
  localised level
• Proposed means of filling gap quantitative
• Telephone survey of all 49 FE/HE providers in SW
• Collecting data on
• Perceived barriers
• Opinions on removing barriers
• Facilities available to enable carers to
  participate