Communities First

Employment Support

ESF Proposal

What will the CF proposal Cover?

1. Provide a “backbone” project covering all 52 CF Clusters in Wales.

2. Build on Communities First learning from both the previous programme and partners.

3. Provide an strategic approach to employment support in our most deprived communities.

Drivers for change

Value For Money

Improving Outcomes

Reducing complexity

Integrating Services

Communities First Focus as Key Tackling Poverty Programme

Context

• Lessons learnt from Communities First

• Need to ensure more focused and co-ordinated support in deprived communities.

• Tackling Poverty Action Plan

• Impact of Welfare reform on communities.

• Need to ensure value for money

• Continued Focus on delivering outcomes

Proposed Delivery Channels

• Communities First Clusters • National Partners • Procured Services?

Key Elements

• Partnership with JCP

• Employment Support

• Additional Support Services

• Enhanced Training

Partnership with JCP

• What? – Discussions with JCP on a national partnership and links with previous Want2Work Programme.

• Why? – Specific Skills and Workforce and evidence from Parent Employment Advisor Project.

Employment Support

• What? – Focus on the provision of intensive mentoring both for adults and young people. Assessment processes and action planning with strong referral pathways in and out.

• Why? – Evidence of success of mentoring approach in target group , less duplication, greater integration and simplification

Additional Support Services

• What? – Enhanced holistic Services are under consideration, including Digital Inclusion and Welfare Advice work.

• Why? – Strong Evidence of need and the success of fully integrated support.

Enhanced Training

• What? – Enhanced training and pre employment services, procured centrally.

• Why? – Ensure quality of service, meets needs identified in gap analysis.

When

• New offer will be rolled out in a phased implementation plan.

• Delivery of some elements may will require a procurement exercise.

• Anticipated start in 2015.

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