Equal Access To Employment In Glasgow

Local Management & Roll Out

A wide diversity of organisations support people at different stages in their pathway towards seeking, sustaining and progressing in employment. These organisations need to work together at the local level as well as at city level. The adoption of common boundaries for service delivery creates better scope than ever before for services to work together effectively. Community Planning, the Community Health and Care Partnerships, and Local Regeneration Agencies, now all operate in 5 areas covering the whole city. The City Strategy will build on this common geography in commissioning services.

Local Strategic Employability Groups are now operating in each of the 5 areas, drawing their membership from the Partnership members. They are setting local priorities for the area within the overall City Strategy, with the emphasis on joining up services, facilitating networking and developing referral processes. Employability groups at operational management and at frontline staff levels are also developing, involving a still wider range of local partners, and they too will be critical to the success of the City Strategy and to joint working in the 5 localities. It is anticipated that the Strategic Employability Groups will be instrumental in forming local consortia to deliver the agreed programmes, through long-term framework agreements with the city-wide City Strategy. By operating at a local level, these Groups will be able to address particular local issues and needs, with the key underlying principle of delivering services that are client centred and tailored to individual needs. Implicit in delivery is the establishment and maintenance of the continuum pathway from benefit to sustainable employment.

All 5 areas will be implementing employability programmes within common performance and financial management systems. This will ensure that reporting and evaluation processes, information and quality systems are in place to provide consistency and ensure that activity can be tracked and impacts can be recorded at both local and City wide levels. The performance monitoring will be supported by the use of Gtrac, the new city performance tool.

During September there will be a main City-wide launch and five local launch events.