Transcript Business Case for Supported Employment Draft 1

The Case for
Supported Employment
December 2010
What is Supported Employment?
Supported Employment Services provide
individualised support to secure people with
disabilities, long term conditions and
multiple barriers to work a sustainable, paid
job in the open labour market.
Supported Employment
Framework
A framework that commits to supporting
disabled people into sustainable work.
• Raise awareness
• Integrated into local employment services
• Focus on paid employment
• Improve quality and consistency of services.
Policy & legal Background
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Workforce Plus and More Choices More Chances
Achieving Our Potential (November 2008)
The same as you? A review of services for people with learning disabilities (2000)
Self Directed Support: A National Strategy for Scotland, 2010
Shifting the Balance of Care
Public Service Improvement Framework
Equality Act 2010
Mental Health Care and Treatment Act.
Link to National Outcomes
• We all realise our economic potential
(National Outcome 2)
• We live longer, healthier lives (5)
• We have tackled the significant
inequalities in Scottish society (7)
• We have improved the life chances for
children, young people and
families at risk (8)
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Action Group
The case, at individual level
• meaning and purpose in life ;
• status and identity in society;
• social inclusion;
• an income and resources that can raise
families out of poverty; and
• reduction the use of health and social care
services.
Cost of Supported Employment
It costs to get people into work but it pays.
Supported
employment
Health and
social care
Cost per job outcome
Estimated cost per employment outcome
between £7,000 and £10,000:
– North Lanarkshire Supported Employment cost
per job was £7,216 (2007)
– Kent Supported Employment Service £9,900
per person
– Real Job cost per job £8,725 per job
Benefits are greater than the costs
• For the individual:
– People with learning difficulties £62.30 per week better off in work
• For Local Authorities:
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£11,200 pp for day services. £9,910 pp for S.E.
• For the Health Service:
– Spending pp on MH Services declined by 60% (Schneider et al).
• For Government:
– Potential saving of 12p for every £1 invested
Impact on service costs for people with mental
health issues
Figure 1: Costs by sub-group
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Mean £ per week
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40
Unemployed
Working<=12m
Working>12m
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Baseline
Follow up
All health & social care input
Baseline
Follow up
Mental health services
SESAMI Study
Schneider et al
Real Jobs
SROIBenefits
results
Wider
Social
Wider social benefits 2
Social Return on Investment shows a
value returned to stakeholders of between
£2.60 and £5 for every £1 invested:
– Stirling Employability, SROI Index is 1:2.62
– Real Jobs, SROI Index is 1:5.
Summary
Supported employment:
• Produces a positive cost: benefit ratio
• Provides social benefits:
– Securing employment for disabled people
– Tackling inequality
– Tackling poverty
• Contributes to a vision of a Wealthier,
Healthier, Safer and Stronger Scotland.
Contact
Pippa Coutts
Scottish Union of Supported Employment
[email protected]
http://learning.susescotland.co.uk