Tackling Worklessness

Chris Marsh Mat Ainsworth

SSP Board

23 October 2009

This presentation provides

• An update on current position on worklessness

• A progress report on delivery

• An outline of key policy issues and choices going forward

• An opportunity to take stock….

Pre - recession picture: a challenge, but sound foundations

• Employment rate above regional average for the first time in recent history 73.6%.

• 20,000 more people in work in June 08 compared to the turn of the Millennium.

• Slow, but steady reductions in worklessness• JSA claimant rate around 3%• Residents wages increased by £31/wk between 2007 & 2008

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Source: DWP WPLS Longitudinal Study Feb 2008

National Average 11.7%

NW Average 14.7%

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The recession has presented us a new challenge: JSA growth

SalfordGMNWUK

Working Neighbourhood

Teams

Joint Agency Commissioning

Raising Aspirations

Tackling Child and Family

Poverty

Media City UK

Exemplar Employer/ Creating Demand

City Regional Working

14-19 Links

Our strategy: respond, reach out, join-up, scale-up

Impacts of our work: respond

1438 skills and work service job outcomes – five fold increase from previous years

3,668 skills and work registrations 330% up on previous year

City Council Academies have supported 48 Salford residents into jobs

57% of Media City construction jobs employees to GM residents, 12% from Salford (234 people now)

£92m of Media City supply chain investment In Salford firms: more than tripling the City Council investment

£52m secured for FJF: 800 jobs for Salford = £5.2m

Impacts of our work: reach out

Raising Aspirations providers engaged 525 workless residentsSupported 127 (24%) into jobs so far

Community and voluntary groups being supported to accreditation in Information Advice and Guidance3 Orthodox Jewish Groups supported to full Matrix accreditation

Back to Work team supported 51 ex - offenders into work

Achieved GO Excellence Award for Skills for Life

Impacts of our work: Join up, scale up

Much clearer view of skills and work investment – and its in the same room now

WNT rolled out to cover almost all of City’s deprived areas.

Spotlight and WNT recognised as national best practice – leading GM work on deprivation

Real enthusiasm and buy in to the vision and approach from partners

Working Neighbourhood Teams

Ordsall and LangworthyEcclesEast Salford NDC AreaBlackfriars & BroughtonLittle Hulton and WalkdenSwinton & Pendlebury

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Demand–sidemeasures

Building the Department Store

Local Joint Management

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Engagement & Outreach Teams

Programme of 2 for 1s

HR Development Support

Neighbourhood Profiles

Resident Incentives Scheme

Local Budgets & Commissioning

Sponsor GroupJoint Working

Processes

Local Performance Management

Marketing & Communications

Political and Executive support

LocalManagement

Team

Local service managers are now ‘one team’ in six pilot areas, with specific plans for each

We are now on the streets together

Example: Nine Acre Court

• Direct joint agency engagement on:– Skills & Work– Health– Money Advice– Redundancy

On the streets across the city

Swinton: Plans for dedicated outreach team to work on the Poets estate

Eccles: Consultation with members of the Yemeni community. Outreach on the Brookhouse estate

Little Hulton: Multi-agency teamplanning activities on Amblecote

NDC: Plans underway for outreach and engagement on London Street

Nine Acre Court Analysis: justifies joining up

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•138 properties

•57% (78) residents engaged to date.

•54% (42) of these actively ‘signed-up’

Engagement with service:

Future Jobs Fund: Creating new opportunities

• Scheme to create ‘new’ jobs of ‘community benefit’ primarily aimed at 18-24 year olds

• Programme funded by DWP up to max of £6500 per person for 6 months work, to cover wage and support costs

• Successful Greater Manchester bid to create 8000 new jobs over 18 months

• 1500 jobs to start between Oct 09 & March 10

• 800 new jobs being created in Salford – 150 by March 2010

Future Jobs Fund in action!!!

Highways Maintenance Case Study

• Jointly funded by Salford City Council, Urban Vision Partnership, and Salford City College

• Employed and supported via Groundwork• Promoted via Skills & Work, Connexions,

Jobcentre Plus and WNT's• 41 Open Day Enquiries (inc 16 on reserve list) • 36 JSA Claimants (6 months+)• 17 started pre-recruitment course (4wks)• 15 completed pre-recruitment course• 15 achieved Level 1 Certificate• 8 (aged 18-24yrs) and 9 (aged 25+yrs)• 8 now inducted via Groundwork & Urban Vision

& started on-site with Urban Vision Partnership • Further training to achieve NVQ Level 2 in

Highways Maintenance via Salford City College

Key issues

• Tightening financial climate – A challenge and an opportunity

• Improving low skills base to tackle in-work poverty

• Going further on joint commissioning – an efficiency opportunity?

• Anticipating the wider effects of a period of higher unemployment – on places and people

Welfare reform: How should it feel?

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