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The role of Enterprise in Employment Services “It makes good business sense”
Current Enterprise Programmes
• Business Link (web and phone only)• ERDF (varies by region)• Transnational Projects• Enterprise Clubs• New Enterprise Allowance• Start Up Britain • Work Programme ?
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Best practice and innovation in delivery
• Mentoring (if properly resourced)• Networking and peer mentoring• Self employment support to offenders and
ex-offenders• NEA• Test trading• Specialist advisors• In Work Support• Flexibility in delivery times and locations
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Best practice and innovation in delivery
• Outside of welfare:
– Reduction in support available • Local Authority – often postcode lottery• Princes Trust (18 to 30) • Prime (over 50)• Historically: LEGI / Bizfizz / Serolli
– Young Peoples Start Up Loans
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What works and why?
• Test trading• One to one sessions• Experienced enterprise advisors• Working Tax Credits • Self Employment Qualifications• Stand alone self employment programmes• Avanta Enterprise (Inbiz) evaluation
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Current provision
• The Growth agenda
• Loans for Young People
• WP enterprise
• Loss of many enterprise programmes, including:• Solutions for Business
• Business Link Start-Up Programme
• Flexible New Deal
• European Regional Development Fund
• Transnational Projects
• RDA / LA funded provision
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What are the gaps in policy and provision?
• Test trading• Awareness raising sessions • Idea generation• Eligibility criteria / postcode lotteries• Funding and discretionary funds• Careers advice – self employment as a career
option• Grants – we think that lack of grants is NOT a
barrier to enterprise
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What is required within W2W?
• Day one eligibility• Experienced Business Advisors• Providers who understand the
benefits• People who can inspire• Flexible programmes
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Other opportunities within Enterprise
• BIS• DCLG• Local Authorities• DWP• Commercial programmes?• Working with employers
– Response to redundancy?
– Spin outs?
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What’s next?
• Identification of:• The opportunities• Successful delivery models and solutions• The ‘real’ gaps
• Dialogue with:• DCLG• BIS• DWP
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The Case for a Dedicated Programme of Support to Help
Individuals Move from Long Term Unemployment into
Sustainable Self-Employment
Terry Owens
What Can Be Achieved
• 80% survival beyond three years• On average 1.6 people will be employed
per business by the three-year point • 72% remain as lifestyle self-employed• 28% develop into established
businesses mainly employing one to five
• Six of those 28 become significant growth businesses
The Importance of Self-Employment
The Three C’s
• Cash: The unemployed will have generally exhausted any savings
• Confidence: Rejections in job interviews will have severely dented their confidence
• Credibility: Unemployment often leads to debt issues and damaged credit ratings
Why a Dedicated Programme?
• Specialist providers who understand small business
• Empathy with the client group
• Focus on start-up
• Advisors who really understand self-employment
The Cushion
• Successful programmes from the past
• Utilising tax credits
• The Universal Credit proposal
• Enterprise Credit
A Dedicated Programme
• Overcoming the barriers to self-employment
• Peer support
• Business to business support
• Networking
• Use of technology
Dedicated Self-Employment Support for the Unemployed
• Creates significant numbers of sustainable jobs
• Helps new businesses to establish and grow• Works particularly well in areas of deprivation
and high unemployment
6% of start-ups become high 6% of start-ups become high growth businesses but without growth businesses but without
the 100 we do not get the 6the 100 we do not get the 6
Terry Owens – 07812 128625