Mainstreaming

Mainstreaming Thematic Reports

Equal Access to Employment in Glasgow is a strategic partnership in the city to look at new ways of joining up health, social care and employability services with the vision that “Every adult in Glasgow regardless of age, gender, background, ethnicity personal or health history should have the same opportunity as everyone else in the city to hold down meaningful paid work”

The partnership secured £1.2m from the ESF EQUAL Community Initiative to develop the RE:Focus Development Partnership (DP). This allowed access to a funding stream for a variety of innovative projects across the city in research, service delivery and employer engagement to try and test new ways of promoting inclusion in the labour market . It was envisaged the lessons learned from these projects would influence the future development of service delivery both locally and at a national level.

All the projects embraced the cross cutting themes of EQUAL; Empowerment, Equality, Innovation and Mainstreaming and reported on these integral steams throughout the projects existence.

To ensure maximum impact from the mainstreaming agenda, the RE:Focus DP decided to focus on 4 key thematic areas of Empowerment, Culture Change, Shared Practice and a Common Tracking System.

Working groups were established from across the partnership with the task of capturing the lessons learned and making recommendations on key issues identified.

The findings from these groups have now been published in this series of mainstreaming thematic reports :

• Shared Practice
• Empowerment
• Culture Change