1. EUROPEAN STRUCTURAL INVESTMENT FUND – SETTING THE SCENE
Jo Lappin

3. ESF Allocation
ESF*
TO8:Employment and Labour Mobility
Support for the Unemployed
6.5 3
Northamptonshire NEET and young people Support
0.3
TO8 totals
3.3
TO9:Social Inclusion
Return to Work
5.1
1.5
Northamptonshire Community Grants
TO9 totals
1.8
TO10: Skills
Workforce Skills Programme
11.5
3.0
Local Responsiveness Fund
0.4
Enterprise Skills Development
0.6
TO10 totals
4.1
ESF total
23.1
9.2
* ESF allocations by activity have only been determined for

4. Big Lottery - Overview
£1.5M of ESF funds as an ‘opt-in’ under the Social Inclusion strand of the Programme
Lottery provides hard cash match funding
Focus on addressing social inclusion through skills and employment
Complements DWP and SFA activity

5. Objectives
Overcome barriers to work, by supporting the most socially excluded back to work
Improve social and economic inclusion by helping those with multiple and complex needs
Improve employability for the most disadvantaged through training

6. Calls for Applications
Two ‘calls’ both to address supporting individuals back into employment
Split by different client groups
Both worth £1.5million each (combined ESF and BL total)
Delivery over 2 years

7. Call One
Specific Client Groups under this call to be supported to become work ready are:
Troubled Families 
people with disabilities
people with drug and alcohol dependency or
those with caring responsibilities
Target outputs for the total call are supporting 366 people to become work ready

8. Call Two
Specific Client Groups under this call to be supported to become work ready are:
supporting young people (especially those that are NEET or at risk of becoming NEET)
people who are looked after
in care or are care leavers
people who are ex-offenders or supervised by the Youth Offending Team
homeless people
Target outputs for the total call are supporting 366 people to become work ready

9. Scope Tailored support measures to address barriers to employment
Support to address wider barriers to employment
Debt and money management Skills
Addressing digital inclusion
Reducing drug and alcohol dependency
Access to flexible affordable childcare
Access to transport
Volunteering as a route into employment