St Mungo

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St Mungos
St Mungos Skills Employment Programme Don
Macdonald
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St Mungos

• St Mungos are the largest homeless service
  provider in London
• We provide 1500 beds
• We give housing advice in six London prisons
• We run the largest skills employment programme
  in Europe

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Needs Barriers

• Unemployment is higher for this group, higher
  than 15 years ago lacking recent experience of
  work
• 52 had Literacy/Numeracy needs
• 69 with complex needs, which hinders regular
  commitment to education or work experience
• Perceived real benefits gaps also prevent
  service users going into work

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Key Aim

• The key aim of our Skills and Employment
  Strategy is to help more homeless people to get
  the skills and self confidence that they need to
  become employable, move into and be successful at
  work as a key element in gaining independence.

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Programme Elements

• Activities
• Advice information
• Work experience vocational skills
• Job search
• In work support
• Employment for service users

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1. Activities

• Meaningful activitiesusually in our hostels
• Social (Games, trips)
• Skills (Cooking, IT)
• Creative (Music, Drama)
• Fitness (Gym, swimming)

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2. Advice

• Advice information, backed by guidance
  support
• Lead to action planning
• Literacy IT support
• Employability skills (eg problem-solving,
  time-keeping)

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3. Work experience vocational skills

• Volunteering
• Painting Decorating
• Brickwork Plastering
• Carpentry
• Gardening

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4. Job search

• Carried out at Rushworth St. Training
• Centre-
• CV writing
• Financial Assistance
• Interview Skills Practice
• Job applications

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5. In work support

• In work support
• Selfemployment support

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6. Employment for service users

• St Mungos has a commitment for 8 of its staff
  team to be service users. It has reached 4
• We employ around 15 apprentices, from former
  service users annually.
• Members of Outside In, the service user
  participation group, receive training gain
  volunteer status

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Programme Numbers

• Activities 799
• Advice information 330
• Work experience/
• vocational skills 131
• Job search 215
• In work support 150
• Employment for service users 35

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Issues

• Funding, funding, funding..
• Private sector taking lions share of the
  employment contracts are likely to cherry pick
  higher achievers
• Colleges still not doing very much

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Answers ?

• Trust funds--Mungos raises 2 million a year.
• More links with RSLs on what ?
• Apprentices? Care sector staff ?
• Better partnerships with prime contractors on
  Government funded schemes

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Time elapsed since last worked Outcomes Star Stages Job readiness Funding source
Within last year - (85) 7 10 Stage 5 Work ready DWP
1 to 2 years ago - (80) 6 8-9 Stage 4 pre-employment DWP
2 to 5 years ago - (253) 19 6-7 Stage 3 Intensive Employability SFA/DWP
5 to 10 years ago - (336) 26 4-5 Stage 2 Employability Starts SFA
lt10 years ago - (358) 27 2-3 Stage 1 Low level engagement DofH
Never Worked 0-1 0 Not in scope of labour market DofH