1. Julie Bilotti & Joanne Farrow Scottish Government Employability Team
WORKING FOR GROWTH – The Scottish Government’s refreshed employability framework
Julie Bilotti & Joanne Farrow
Scottish Government Employability Team

2. Achievements since 2006
National stakeholder groups – Scottish Employability Forum, National Delivery Group,Third Sector Employability Forum
Employability and Tackling Poverty Learning Network
Client tracking systems
Strategic Skills Pipeline

3. Context for a different approach
Impact of economic downturn
Welfare Reform
Christie
Reform of Post 16 Education – Putting learners at the centre

4. Strategic and effective leadership
Strategic priorities – Economic growth and skills
Enhancing leadership – The Strategic Forum, the Economy Board, the Scottish Employability Forum, the National Delivery Group, the Third Sector Employability Forum

5. Greater integration and partnership working
Partnership with the UK Government and its providers
BASES for those seeking work and employers
Better partnership working at a local level

6. Towards Prevention – tackling inequality
Importance of person centred delivery
Tackling key barriers – recognising range of multiple complex barriers individuals can face including age, gender, childcare, poor physical or mental health, disability, ethnicity, offenders, drug and alcohol misuse, low/no skills and living in our most deprived areas

7. Improving performance
Learning from each other
Finding local solutions – Community Planning and SOAs, sustainable procurement
Targeting national resources – Making Training Work Better, Employability Fund, European Structural Funds
Working with the Third Sector

8. Next steps? Testing some ideas this year with local partnerships
Action plan to be developed more fully with partners
Implementation monitored by SEF

9. Any questions. Julieann. bilotti@scotland. gsi. gov. uk joanne
Any questions?