Powerpoint slide template Towards Top Performance

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CONTEXT 2008
FACT There are more workless people than
there are jobs in North East Lincolnshire
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Einstein once said
Madness is doing the same thing over and over
and expecting a different outcome.
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Whats our story?
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In light of this

• External expertise helped us shape our 10-year
  approach
• Research
• Mapping
• Mystery shopping
• Economic Wellbeing Strategy from which the
• Change programme was born

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What are we trying to achieve?

• July 2009 JSA Claimants (increase on 70.4 from
  July 2008)
• 13 weeks or less 2,860
• 13 26 weeks 1,325
• 26 52 weeks 1,175
• 52 weeks 485
• (Labour Market Bulletin, JobCentre Plus)

people in sustainable careers
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Why Work?

• Challenge generational views on unemployment
• Reduce reliability on benefits
• Lower child poverty
• Encourage high aspirations and motivation
• Grow the local economy
• Encourage enterprise/economic activity
• Develop skills linked to jobs

Worklessness is not just the opposite of work!
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How will we achieve it?
WORKLESSNESS COLLABORATIVE
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Change Board
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Local Framework Agreement

• Why?
• Its the best means of delivering the programmes
  objectives
• It delivers the programmes commissioning
  principles
• Funding fed eg. Future Jobs, ERDF
• Other benefits
• Those within it are quality assured
• Pre-qualification, allocation to workstream based
  on ability to deliver
• Use recognised criteria
• A qualitative assessment to ensure ability to
  interpret vision and principles of Change and
  guarantee local impact
• Establish once 4 year lifespan
• Creates a contestable local market place

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Creating a contestable market place

• Outcome-based contracts
• Co-operation with other suppliers
• Flexibility over time and between different
  groups or areas
• Core principles embedded - customer focused
  - based on identified local need and
  circumstances - innovative but building on
  what is working there already -
  working together seamless web of support -
  flexible, responsive, high quality - value
  for money

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Providers www.nelincs.gov.uk

• TOTAL NUMBER OF PROVIDERS 22
• Public 23 (5)
• Private 14 (3)
• Third Sector 64 (14)

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Profile
Grant Fund Pilot GrantsEnhancement Grants
Framework for Change

• Infrastructure
• Community Investment Team
• Key Worker Team
• Worklessness Collaboratives

Supply 50
Demand 50
shown against Framework allocation
Engaging Single contract for a consortia to
deliver support for priority clients to motivate
change and to engage with service provision
Business Collaboration Engagement with
employers, incentives and partnership support
Creating work opportunities ILM,
Apprenticeships and Employability
Empowering Contracts aimed at removing
specific barriers identified within the strategy
Equipping Training provision linked to
individual needs, Work Experience
Creating and sustaining employment Opportunities
Inward InvestmentBranding and Promotion, Job
Creation
Enabling Support for clients and employers in
the Transition into work
Self Employment (Local Enterprise Growth
Initiative)
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Tender classifications

• Classification A Project A detailed and
  thorough spec. Clearly stating the outputs and
  delivery arrangements or less than 50,000
• 10 day response
• Classification B Project Spec contains
  outputs and outcomes requiring delivery
  arrangements to be developed 30 day
  response
• Classification C Project Innovative and
  unique project. Outcomes known only. 60
  day response

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CLASSIFICATION B 30 days Delivery commence
December 2009
LAUNCHED 2 OCTOBER 2009
Demand
Supply
Engaging Single contract for a consortia to
deliversupport for priority clients to motivate
change and to engage with service provision
Creating work opportunities ILM,
Apprenticeships and Employability
Empowering Contracts aimed at removing
specific barriers identified within the strategy
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CLASSIFICATION C 60 days Delivery commence
January 2010
LAUNCH 9 OCTOBER 2009
Supply
Demand
Equipping Training provision linked to
individual needs, Work Experience
Business Collaboration Engagement with
employers, incentives and partnership support
Enabling Support for clients and employers in
the Transition into work
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Grant funding www.nelincs.gov.uk

• 5 pilot projects running in the borough over
  180k invested
• Building Skills for Life testing if providing a
  menu of different work placement options (white
  and blue collar) offers an attractive and
  sustainable intermediate employment opportunity.
• Stepping forward to work testing approaches in
  supporting disabled participants through new
  development opportunities through all 4 key
  stages of the Change pathway.
• Contract Links if project activity can
  successfully engage local people into the
  physical regeneration of their community on a
  voluntary basis as a pathway to work
• Local Food Solutions approaches to successfully
  engaging local people in developing their skills
  and qualifications and improve their own
  community green areas.
• Entrepreneurship for Disabled People testing
  approaches supporting disabled people in receipt
  of Incapacity or ESA Benefit the opportunity of
  exploring and starting their own business.

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Grant funding www.nelincs.gov.uk

• 1 enhancement project 50k
• ASGARD enhancing a successful element of the
  NHS employability programme. This service
  engages with unemployed family members of
  current CTP apprenticeship style participants.
  Offering them support in an apprenticeship
  style post with partner organisations offering a
  variety of training.10 -15 participants.
  Funds enable searches for new employment
  opportunities and is enabling ex- employability
  participants to become effective mentors to
  new participants on the scheme.

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Think of the possibilities Andrea
Fitzgerald Community Investment Manager 01472
326142 www.nelincs.gov.uk