Employability Learning Network Future Jobs Fund Seminar Martin Betts, Employment Projects Division

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Employability Learning NetworkFuture Jobs Fund
SeminarMartin Betts, Employment Projects Division

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Comprehensive response to recession

• Late 2008
• increased funding, capacity in Jobcentre Plus
• additional European Social Fund provision to
  target unemployed
• expansion of Rapid Response Service, Local
  Employment Partnerships
• Early 2009
• 500m package of support for jobseekers at six
  months announced
• January, go-live April
• strengthened support for newly unemployed
• support for executive and professional
  jobseekers
• Budget 2009
• further increase in funding, capacity for
  Jobcentre Plus
• Young Persons Guarantee announced strands
  live since Autumn 09
• Summer 2009
• Backing Young Britain

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Young Persons Guarantee

• For all young people from 6 months receiving JSA,
  guaranteed offer
• of
• A job
• A new job created through the Future Jobs Fund
• Help with getting an existing job in a key
  employment sector
• Training
• Work experience

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Backing Young Britain The Three Asks

• Offering an apprenticeship
• 2. Giving a young person a job
• earlier access to Future Jobs Fund jobs
• priority access to Work Trials
• Providing a young person with experience of work
• 10,000 mentoring places
• 5,000 work experience places
• 20,000 internships for non-graduates
• 5,000 additional graduate internships,
  increasing total
• target to 20,000

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Progress to date

• The campaign has been very successful.

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And the Future Jobs Fund

• 170,000 jobs
• 120,000 for young people to deliver the
  guarantee
• 50,000 in unemployment hotspots
• Real jobs this is job creation, not an
  employment programme
• Challenge Fund innovative proposals based on
  whats out
• there and what works
• Geared towards partnership bids
• often (not always) Local Authority led
• involving social enterprises and third sector
• lining up with local priorities and strategies

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Additional Jobs

• All jobs created must be new and not exist
  without the Future Jobs Fund investment
• Jobs must not replace existing jobs or vacancies
  and must not lead to another individual, (i.e. an
  employee or contractor), losing their job or
  reducing their wage rates or hours of paid
  employment

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Support in work

• Support to hold down job building work habits,
  mentoring, intensive/ wrap-around support where
  needed
• Support to move on in work skills acquisition,
  accredited training, apprenticeships, etc
• Best bids
• Built around individual diverse group and needs
• Involve partners you may not be best placed to
  deliver all
• Have regular and frequent, rather than ad hoc,
  interventions

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Support to move into sustained employment

• Not just about training
• Critically, about how use that support to get
  into sustained work
• We know what works
• Built around individual not one size fits all
  e.g. with caseworker
• Help looking for work jobsearch, CV/ interview
  prep, jobs fairs etc
• Includes responsibilities required activity,
  part of job
• Linked to jobs demand engage employers,
  sponsors, Chambers
• Includes follow-through activity
• And expect support to get a job within your
  organisation

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Benefit to the community

• Creating a job can be a community benefit, but
  not enough on its own
• FJF Jobs will create visible and lasting
  benefits to community, groups,
• and individuals
• Also minimise risks of displacement, distortion
• Environmental, social, cultural benefits
• Outreach/ support for particular disadvantaged
  groups
• Contribute to regeneration, social cohesion,
  local strategies
• Ideally
• Evidence that community benefits considered
  throughout bid
• Evidence that have engaged the community

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In practice, what does this mean?

• Often a focus on augmenting/ supplementing
  existing services
• Quality of life projects health and fitness,
  outreach, leisure
• Environmental improvement and maintenance
• Occasionally, big legacy projects
  digitisation, renovations etc

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And in all sorts of occupations

• Sports coaches Tourism ambassadors Dance
  assistants Community landscaping Social housing
  Apprenticeships Loft lagging Childcare Social
  care Forestry Education learning assistants
  Support workers Neighbourhood rangers Independent
  living advisors Day centre assistants Community
  health champions Arts inclusion workers Heritage
  projects Housing insulation Customer service and
  retail Coast and countryside management Food
  production and processing Community recycling
  Marine industries Construction Renewable energy
  Money advice assistants Museums assistant
  Groundsperson Leisure Assistant Youth Worker
  Street Cleansing Waste Management Grounds
  maintenance Highways Operatives Web design
  Research assistants Community transport drivers
  Home service delivery Environmental champions
  Community wardens Town guides Community arts Data
  handling and administration Play workers Pre/post
  school working Flood prevention

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Weve come a long way in a short time

• 115 working days from Budget to first job starts
• Seven bidding rounds completed
• 277 bids accepted (approx half of applications)
• Bids could create up to 110,000 jobs
• Have issued grant agreements for well over half
  of those
• About 200 grants now live notifying vacancies
  and taking people on
• Thousands of people already started work from
  Penzance to Lerwick
• But

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With jobs across the country
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Media Coverage
BBC NEWSBEAT

1bn fund to help the young find jobs
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In five months of delivery, weve learnt a lot

• Getting from paper to delivery in quick time
• Making selection processes work quickly
• Building partnerships and making them work
• Making jobs attractive, suitable
• Account Management and how we deliver in
  Jobcentre Plus
• Following up individuals and vacancies
• Widening eligibility
• Making things fit together across Departments,
  funding
• Overcoming issues data sharing VAT audit
  State Aid CRBs boundaries...

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National Learning Event - Birmingham

• Include more public sector jobs e.g. fire,
  police, NHS, etc
• More flexibility in terms of private sector
  involvement
• CRB checks taking too long
• Relax rules on jobs requiring community benefit
• More user friendly website
• Simplify the bidding and granting processes
• Clarity about what constitutes a new job
• Simplify the recruitment process
• Lack of awareness by some JCP advisers of FJF
  opportunities
• Filling jobs quickly means some people going into
  wrong jobs
• Need for exit strategies and better links with
  apprenticeships

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The Legacy

• Legacy of sustained employment
• FJF not another scheme.. about jobs that lead to
  long term sustained employment
• Support through training, confidence building,
  interview training
• As growth returns employees will be able to take
  on new jobs that meet the needs of individuals
  and the local economy
• Legacy of community benefit
• Tangible lasting benefits community, and
  individuals groups within the community
• Measuring the impact..
• Evaluation due to commence soon and completed by
  the end of 2011

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Employability Learning NetworkFJF
SeminarPartnership MangersLorna Syme Tommy
McDade

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FJF in Scotland

• In Scotland the Future Jobs Fund aims to deliver
  15,000 new jobs at a cost of around 96 million
  Aimed primarily at 18-24 year olds and customers
  who live in areas of high unemployment.
• To date funding for over 9000 Future Jobs Fund
  jobs have been secured.
• Excellent coverage of Future Jobs Fund jobs in
  Scotland with every Local Authority area having
  jobs awarded.

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Role of the Partnership Managers

• Offer advice and support to potential bidders
• Influence the strategic delivery of FJF in
  Scotland
• Working effectively with DWP, Scottish Government
  and Scotland Office colleagues, ensuring our
  service meets their needs.
• Work in partnership with District colleagues to
  ensure maximum coverage of FJF in Scotland

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District Vacancy Advisers

• Develop effective working relationships with
  successful bidders, offering continuous advice
  and support.
• Take vacancies from FJF employers, considering
  client group and application processes etc
• Close working with PAs to ensure that all are
  aware of FJF Vacancies

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Grant Management Team

• The purpose of the account management team is to
  give
• assurance to the department that payments made to
  providers
• who are awarded Future Jobs Fund (FJF) is in
  accordance with
• DWP/Treasury requirements. The role will then
  also look at
• dealing with any outstanding issues/complaints
  which arise from
• the Future Jobs Fund.