Equal Access To Employment In Glasgow

Statement of Aims and Objectives

Glasgow has just under 100,000 people of working age not in work, and an employment rate of 65%. However, this masks big variations amongst different groups with specific issues.

Group	Employment Rate
Scottish Total	75%
Glasgow Total	65%
People over 50	56%
Black and Ethnic Minorities	44%
Lone Parents	39%
People with Mental Health Issues	25%
Disabled People	32%
Blind and Visually Impaired	17%
Homeless	8%

If Glasgow is to achieve an employment rate of 70% or more, it must make a difference with all of the groups above and others, such as carers, people with addictions, learning disabilities, criminal justice records, etc.

Generic employability services will not achieve the necessary impact by themselves: they will need to partner effectively with the agencies with specialist knowledge, notably CHCPs, and also specialist voluntary agencies. Enabling this effective partnering is what Equal Access seeks to do.

Equal Access to Employment is a partnership in Glasgow aimed at enabling the Health and Social Care services to work more effectively together with the training and employment sector. it aims to add value to the overall city target of reducing the number of people on benefits by 40,000 by 2010.

Vision

Every adult in Glasgow, regardless of their age, gender, background,ethnicity, personal or health history should have the same opportunity as everyone else in the city to obtain and hold down meaningful, paid work

EAS is about a way of working. It is committed to developing services

• Which are Person Centred
• Where all staff see it as their role to raise Employability, Health and Social Care issues as a core function of their job
• Which recognises their role in the process and work to their strengths
• Which demand partnership working
• That are funded to accommodate people furthest from the labour market to allow for this flexibility