Equal Access To Employment In Glasgow
Service Providers
The Equal Access Strategy is implemented by a team seconded from across the Partnership organisations with a Central Support Unit.
Funding for our services is secured from the partners including:
- Glasgow City Council
- Greater Glasgow NHS
- Scottish Government
- Scottish Enterprise Glasgow
- European Funding (specifically Objective 3)
- Equal Access/RE:Focus.
As well as the management of the Equal Access network, the Central Support Unit co-ordinates a range of functions, provides training and builds links with Social Work, Health, Employment and Training services. It plays a role in implementing, communicating and influencing all levels of employability policy among partners.
Equal Access Managers are the catalysts for changing the delivery of services at a local level. Based within the local regeneration agencies and covering Community Health & Care Partnership areas, they are the local resource to facilitate joint working between the partners. They also help partners to develop services that meet the needs of those individuals referred for support.
Employability Workers are locally based in the East and North of Glasgow. Their role is to support mainstream health and social care workers to develop the skills, knowledge and contacts to support their clients more effectively along the employment pathway.
The New Connections Team works with health and social care services at a citywide level. The aim of the team is to support health and social care services to incorporate employability elements into their assessment and care management paperwork and procedures; adapt information systems to record this activity; deliver employability training to their staff; and build employability indicators into performance frameworks. The team complements the work of the Local Equal Access Managers by ensuring that across the city, health and social work area teams are aware of and proactively linking into local employability services and developments.
In addition RE:Focus has been working with partners across the city testing new approaches to help people with health or social care needs move into or return to work. The partnership had 22 projects, part funded by Europe, operating from July 05 until June 2007. These projects have underpinned the principles of the Equal Access Strategy. The learning from the projects is now influencing the delivery of services across the city and nationally. It continues to influence and shape the content of key policies in Scotland such as Workforce Plus & the City Strategy.*
*Glasgow Works: Delivering The Glasgow Welfare To Work City Strategy
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