Transcript Tackling Worklessness Chris Marsh Mat Ainsworth

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
Distribution of DWP Out of Work Benefit Claimant Data by Lower Level Super Output Area
Central Salford
Salford West
55%
50%
45%
40%
35%
30%
25%
NI 153 Break Point 25%
20%
Salford Average 18.52%
15%
NW Average 14.7%
National Average 11.7%
10%
5%
0%
Source: DWP WPLS Longitudinal Study Feb 2008
• 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
10.0%
9.0%
8.0%
7.0%
6.0%
5.0%
4.0%
3.0%
2.0%
1.0%
0.0%
Worsley&B'town
Claremont
Kersal
Aged 25-49
Swinton South
Irlam
Walkden South
Cadishead
Pendlebury
Eccles
Swinton North
Weaste &
Aged 18-24
Winton
Pendleton
Barton
Blackfriars
Little Hulton
Walkden North
Ordsall
Broughton
Langworthy
% of working age population in receipt of
JSA
The recession has presented us a new challenge: JSA
growth
Aged 50+
Salford
GM
NW
UK
Source: DWP Claimant Count
Our strategy: respond, reach out, join-up, scale-up
Raising
Aspirations
14-19 Links
City Regional
Working
Media City UK
Tackling Child
Joint Agency
Working
and Family
Commissioning Neighbourhood
Poverty
Teams
Exemplar
Employer/
Creating
Demand
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
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
City Council Academies have supported 48 Salford
residents into jobs
£52m secured for FJF: 800 jobs for Salford = £5.2m
Impacts of our work: reach out
Raising Aspirations providers engaged 525 workless
residents
Supported 127 (24%) into jobs so far
Back to Work team supported 51 ex - offenders into
work
Community and voluntary groups being supported
to accreditation in Information Advice and Guidance
3 Orthodox Jewish Groups supported to full Matrix
accreditation
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
May 2009
Sep 2009
Apr 2010
Ordsall and Langworthy
Eccles
East Salford NDC Area
Blackfriars & Broughton
Little Hulton and Walkden
Swinton & Pendlebury
Claremont and Weaste
Irlam and Cadishead
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Building the Department Store
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JOB
In workIn Work Support
support Train to Gain
JCP
JCP
Confidence
building
Benefit
advice
Skills for
life
Common
Assess
-ment
Health
‘Personal
support/
Shoppers’
activity
HR Development
Support
Enterprise
activity
Financial
advice
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Drug &
alcohol
Housing
support
Local Joint
Management
Teams
Engagement &
Outreach Teams
Skills &
Work
IAG
Parenting
family
Childsupport
care
Crime
Joint Working
Processes
Local Budgets &
Marketing &
Commissioning Communications
Education
Demand–side
measures
Local
Performance
Management
Neighbourhood
Profiles
Programme of
2 for 1s
Sponsor Group
Resident
Incentives
Scheme
Political and
Executive
support
Local service managers are now ‘one team’ in six pilot
areas, with specific plans for each
Local
Management
Team
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
Eccles: Consultation with
members of the Yemeni
community. Outreach on the
Brookhouse estate
Little Hulton: Multi-agency team
planning activities on Amblecote
Swinton: Plans for
dedicated outreach team to
work on the Poets estate
NDC: Plans underway for outreach
and engagement on London Street
Nine Acre Court Analysis: justifies joining up
•138 properties
•57% (78) residents engaged to date.
•54% (42) of these actively ‘signed-up’
Engagement with service:
Housing
Health Imp.
5
4
5
4
Drugs & Alc
10
10
Financial Adv.
3
Improve Skills
Training Opps.
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14
17
11
Skills and Work
Volunteer
Maths & Eng
ESOL
Other
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
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• 800 new jobs being created in Salford –
Future Jobs Fund in action!!!
Highways Maintenance
Case Study
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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?
Welfare reform: How should it feel?
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