BME Linked Work

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BME Linked Work Training Programme
Development of Programme
Calum Guthrie Scottish Council for Voluntary
Organisations
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Project Development - Rationale

• Anecdotal and research evidence that black and
  minority ethnic people experiencing
  discrimination disadvantage
• Earning levels
• Employment Progression
• Access to education and skills training

• across a wide spectrum of policy areas minority
  ethnic people are invisible in the official
  statistical dataset Scottish Executive, CRU 2001
• BME people seriously under represented within
  the Scottish education workforce at all levels
  Scottish Executive, CRU 2001

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Project Delivery - Rationale

• Positive action project to upskill black and
  minority ethnic people
• Increase access to promoted posts
• Increase access to higher education
• Increase opportunities to move into general
  public sector, voluntary sector employment in
  senior posts
• Evidence about labour market discrimination
  issues around mainstreaming equalities
• Dissemination of information about discrimination
  and mainstreaming to employers, policy makers and
  organisations

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Project Delivery - Components

• Adaptation of local work-based training programme
  to needs of BME individuals
• Sharing learning experiences of programme
  delivery among stakeholders and relevant
  organisations to allow better understanding of
  discrimination and mainstreaming equalities
• Programme of Information Sessions
• Stakeholders Forum
• Conference

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Funding

• This programme is part funded by European Social
  Fund Objective 3 Priority 4
• Other funders are
• Communities Scotland
• Lankelly Trust
• Hugh Fraser Foundation
• Scottish Community Foundation

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Positive Action Positive Action is not formally
defined under the Race Relations Act (1976) and
as commonly understood, the term covers practices
which involve assisting under-represented groups
to compete with others on equal terms Good
Practice in Positive Action, A Report to
Communities Scotland and PATH Scotland,2003

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• Positive Action Voluntary Sector Sector
  Workforce
• Observations

• Positive action approaches provide a mechanism
  for addressing skills gaps and labour shortages
  in growth sections of the economy
• What happens to positive action programme
  participants once they complete training?
• How sustainable is their progression in the
  labour market?
• What are their experiences of integration into
  organisations and continuing personal and
  professional development?

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Contacts for Programme Information
Programme Learning Dissemination Lucia Dhliwayo,
SCVO, Floor 3, Centrum Building, 38 Queen
Street, Glasgow G1 3DX tel [phone]
lucia.dhliwayo_at_scvo.org.uk
Curriculum Delivery, Student and Employer
Support Akwugo Emejulu, Course Tutor, Linked Work
and Training Trust, Suite 14, Willow House,
Newhouse Business Park, Grangemouth FK3 8LL tel
01324 489 666aemejulu_at_lwttc.org.uk
Programme Management Calum Guthrie SCVO Fiona
Craig LWTCC