1. Merits and Challenges of the consortium approach to delivering Supported Employment

2. A Working Life for All Disabled People
Supported Employment Framework for Scotland (2010)
“creating a more successful country with opportunities for all of Scotland to flourish… ensuring that people who can work and want to work are given the opportunity to do so… for many disabled people there continue to be barriers which deny them this opportunity.”

3. Supported Employment
…is an intervention which is aimed at supporting people with disabilities within the world of work and employment
recent years has shown a trend towards the inclusion of people with disabilities within the open labour market, rather than within sheltered settings.”

4. Three principles The job should be in an integrated work place
The job holder is paid the rate for the job, and
All individuals have the right to end their reliance on welfare benefits

5. Paid work, support and in work career progress
Edinburgh Employability and Skills Disability Review – Supported Employment
Paid work, support and in work career progress
One-to-one service (personal)
An integrated service for all disabilities
One gateway entry point
More say in development and delivery
Employer engagement

6. Edinburgh market
23,000 people out of work disabled people in Edinburgh of working age at the time of the review
1,000 engaged in employment support
400 with CEC supported providers
CEC ring fenced budget of £1, 079,000 pa to support people with disabilities into work

7. Other factors… Compliance Operational
ESF requirements to work cross agency
Changes in Government policy on benefits (JSA/ESA)
Supported Employment Framework (Scottish Government)
Reducing nos of ESA and IB claimants
Need to cut costs/increase engagement
Integrated, one door service
Improve performance
Pan disability service
Improve engagement with employers/ opportunities
Link to JU4J

8. Supported Employment Edinburgh Providers Network

9. Edinburgh Supported Employment Consortium

10. CEC Commissioning

11. Consortium Structure

12. Delivery Model

13. Merits and Challenges Merits Challenges One top entry point
Better quality of support to service users
Strong commitment from partners
Open procurement enabled ESF leverage (+40%)
Retained and built on expertise
Unifying four organisations
Loosing some providers
Employers uncertain about employing people with disabilities

14. Process, Partners, Resources…
No route map for process
CEC supported process well
Memo of understanding important
Starts with CLIENT NEEDS
Partners opted in, bringing expertise
Few resources (cash, legal, business)

15. Outcome so far… Consortium consolidating
Fours years funding + extension of two
Able to tender for other work
Able to wider tackle issues (criminal justice)
Able to create progression routes