Mapping Employability
enabling partnership
Billy Lynch Manager
Open Door Fife
Veronica MacMillanCapacity Building Coordinator
Wise Move
WISE MOVEGreirson Report Recommendations 2001
•‘New Way’ of Working with agencies - capacity building
• ‘Aspirational’ approach - progressing clients
• Coordinated Employment Agency
• Twin approach / Strategic overview
Capacity Building
• Employability forums• Common employability
assessment• Awareness raising – frontline staff• Employability resources &
sessions • Mapping range & quality of
provision / ongoing review• ‘Coordinated approach’
Employability&
Homelessness• Lack of clarity• Duplication• No co-ordination / partnership• Lack of consistency &
accountability• Lack of employer / employment
focus• ‘barrier’ rather ‘solution’ focus
Coordinated Approach
Sectoral Development Plan
• Mapping Employability within homelessness
• Measuring quality & range of delivery Evaluation / review tool
Mapping Framework(New Futures Framework)
methodology
• 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
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
Summary of Findings
• Process / overview / reflection• Clarity• Expertise – exclusive?• Duplication & Gaps• Tapering out of provision sect’s 1 -
3• Potential for Partnership &
increase access to opportunity
Recommendationsfrom Mapping
‘Coordinated Approach’
1. Integrating employability – ‘Culture change’ Frontline staff training – employability & ‘soft’ progression
2. Employment focused programmes – coordinated delivery – consortium
3. Links to employers – awareness / support / sustaining opportunity – ‘hard outcome’
Sectoral Development Plan - baseline / standard / review / consistent tools / client progression
Potential to ‘measure impact’ for commissioningDeliver Clarity & Accountability
Coordinated Approach – stagesCoordinated Approach – stages 1.1.
Integrating Employability
2.2.Employability programme
Cross Agency delivery
3.3.Links to
employers awareness &
support
Employability Awareness raising –
Culture shift
Modular deliveryEmployment
focused
Employment Agency
Person centredCommon Assessment
Action PlanningTraining pack
CRISISSoft skillsTracking
progression
Mapping & Evaluation
Quality Measurement
STABLEGetting the job
Employment Pathways
Placement Packawareness‘buddying’
INDEPENDENTSustaining job
& ECHO