1. Provided by Edinburgh Supported Employment Consortium

2. City Strategy and Economy* * *

3. City Strategy and Economy
Programme 1:
Invest in the city’s development and regeneration
Programme 2:
Support Inward investment
Programme 3:
Support businesses
Programme 4:
Help unemployed people into work or learning

4. Integrated Service Model
The Strategic Skills Pipeline is the framework within which the city's Integrated Employability Service (IES) is organised.
The aim is that local and national service providers collaborate to meet the "full" needs of our jobseekers and employers.
4 local Employability Hubs were commissioned to help ensure ease of access to services across the city.
Edinburgh's Strategic Skills Pipeline: aligning the local with the national.
Co-decision making and coordination of investment to ensure services are centred around the needs of clients and the real opportunities in the city, provision of a clear structure within which services fit, playing to strengths and underpinned by common performance management systems
integration with National Services and Community Structures.

5. Employability & Skills Commissioning
4 Employability Hubs for 1.2 million a year
Fund 27 local specialist projects for 1.2 million a year
Support 4 Social Childcare Hubs for 1 million a year
Lead on the Edinburgh Guarantee initiative
Modern apprenticeships
In school support
Inspiring Young people

6. In the beginning ...
Budget for employment support moved over from Health and Social Care to Economic Development
Clear new focus was on economic benefit not care
So we committed to undertaking an independent comprehensive review of what clients wanted and what model would best deliver outcomes for them

7. Initial first steps Desk research and mapping
Sayce Report and so on – WIKI has this as a resource now
Formed a Project Board to oversee the process
unions, specialist schools, client groups, carers
Extensive Consultation with clients and service providers
100 clients at focus groups, 80 surveys, one to one support, 4 public sessions with over 400 people
Visited 4 other Local Authority Sites
Spoke to Employers

8. What we found out
People wanted a service that led to employment and progress
Volunteering and training helpful, but not the goal
People wanted paid the going rate for a real job
People did not want ‘made up’ jobs

9. What we did next
We adopted the Scottish Government’s five step Supported Employment Framework for place and train model
We put out a Public Contract Scotland specification
Staff ratio of maximum 20 clients
Pan disability
PDA qualifications at 50% on start
Employment outcome expectation for every 7k invested – 125 new jobs
Outcome payment model
Specific welfare benefits service
Commissioned a new 4 year All In Edinburgh service

10. Project SEARCH
Edinburgh Project SEARCH is led on by the City of Edinburgh Council as the host employer as a follow on from consultation
It is partnership working between City of Edinburgh Council, NHS, Edinburgh College and Intowork offering intensive work based support leading to employment
A Big Lottery application was secured to offer 60 places

11. Our Next Steps Developing Scotland's Young Workforce
In school support for pathway to employment
Supported Apprenticeships
Increase community benefit clauses
Consider future role of self directed support
Smith commission devolution .... Future funding

12. Questions please?