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Partnership information

Description

Background

In Scotland, areas of potential employment for people re-entering the labour market include Natural Heritage (of 11,750 UK employees with 2,200 additional employees each year), Tourism (Scottish Tourism employs 8% of the population within a £4B per year industry, and is growing) and  Construction (33,000 new employees required in Scotland before 2006). All these sectors are represented within the DP. There is strong evidence that there are a number of unemployed people who can be classed as "serial trainees" who move from one training programme to another, and never achieve a positive outcome. The EQUAL EMPLOYABILITY pilots seek to break the cycle and improve the success rate of the client groups.  

The potential jobs are there, the potential pool of labour has been identified: this partnership has been formed to support into employment those people who find themselves furthest from the labour market.

Aims 

To test and develop innovative methods and approaches across pathways to employment that enable a range of disadvantaged beneficiaries to increase their employability. Also to empower organisations by increasing their skills set to deal with their client group more effectively through improved, structured training for deliverer

Objectives

To deliver training and support at three levels:

  • Initial engagement in learning
  • Specific ‘job ready’ skills
  • Structured support during initial employment

Activities include
  • developing a roadmap and learning pathway for ex offenders and individuals leaving residential care which is relevant to their situation.
  • working with people with mental health problems to improve their skills through the use of art, drama and music
  • facilitating people from all sectors of society to become actively involved in their local environment
  • developing an aftercare and mentoring project
  • developing an interactive job search toolkit designed to help the long term unemployed into employment.
  • developing and delivering the Inside Out programme, a community-based employment focused programmes for ex-offenders.
  • tackling both social and geographic exclusion of those groups, across the North Highland area, with physical or mental disabilities, young people with learning difficulties and those who due to behavioural problems have become excluded from the workforce
  • improving young offenders future employability
  • working with Asperger sufferers who wish to work to raise awareness amongst Scottish employers.
 Target Groups
  • women
  • older people
  • people with physical disabilities
  • people with autistic spectrum disorders
  • mental health problems
  • prisoners and ex-offenders
  • people from areas of high unemployment in rural and urban areas
  • people with alcohol and drug dependency problems

 

Video interviews

Giving Students an Informed Choice - Lee Chesterman, Partner 1.6 MB
Impact of the Project - Lee Chesterman, Partner 1.9 MB
Learning by Doing - Tom Lawrence, DP Partner 110.7 KB
Looking to the Future - Tom Lawrence, DP Partner 320.9 KB
Mainstreaming - Lee Chesterman, Partner 1.3 MB
Mentoring Project - Alan Leiper and Jenny 2 MB
New Approach - Tom Lawrence, DP Partner 766.6 KB
Success of Programme - Tom Lawrence, DP Partner 497.5 KB
Unique Approach - Tom Lawrence, DP Partner 766.6 KB
Volunteering Experience - Alan Leiper and Jenny 3.6 MB

Round

2

Round 1 to Round 2

This Development Partnership was not involved in Round One.

Lead partner

Ayr College
www.ayrcoll.ac.uk

Core partners

Adam Smith College, BTCV Scotland, Cumbernauld College, Dundee College, Momentum Scotland, North Highland College, Prospects Employment Service, National Autistic Society, Reid Kerr College, The Lennox Partnership, The Prince's Trust - Scotland, University of Paisley, Volunteer Centre North Lanarkshire

Contact

Tommy Burns, Ayr College,

End-dates

Action 2: 30 June 2007
Action 3: 31 December 2007

Equal theme

Facilitating access

Origins

The partnership has been formed in order to deliver the Equal programme to support those furthest from the labour market. It has brought together partners from relevant employment growth sectors (tourism, construction and natural heritage) and includes Further Education Colleges, Universities, Public, Private and Voluntary Sector Employment Agencies, Councils, Enterprise Groups, Voluntary Organisations, Private and Social Enterprise Companies. The project partners are from both rural and urban areas of Scotland and activities have been delivered on a national basis.

Beneficiaries

Ex-offenders, Jobseekers with low basic skills, Labour market returnees, People from disadvantaged areas (top 10% most deprived wards), People over 50, People with learning disabilities, People with mental health conditions
Total beneficiaries: 655

Intended impact/ sustainability

To produce sustainable models that move people into or nearer to the labour market by increasing their employability skills.

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Activities and products

Activity
Adam Smith College THE AIM OF ADAM SMITH'S COLLEGE PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A ROADMAP AND LEARNING PATHWAY FOR EX OFFENDERS AND INDIVIDUALS LEAVING RESIDENTIAL CARE.
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Ayr College Ayr College's project within the partnership will focus on young people with no qualifications and metal health issues and work with tem on an outreach basis in order to improve their core skills and vocational qualifications. Ayr College is a transnational partnershipExpand/collapse Products (1)
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BTCV BTCV will create a structured volunteer Development project that will enable the long term unemployed to find employment in the environmental sector.Expand/collapse Products (1)
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Cumbernauld College Cumbernauld College will carry out a baseline investigation on initial induction to measure the required intervention to improve the participants employability.Expand/collapse Products (1)
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Dundee College to develop interactive job search material using interactive and on-line technologies.Expand/collapse Products (1)
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involve project The involve project is being delivered by Volunteer Centre North Lanarkshire.Expand/collapse Products (1)
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North Highland College North Highland College's equal project will stimulate new employment opportunities for young people with learning difficulties and adults with behavioural problems who live in an area of rural exclusion.
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Prince's Trust This project will develop and prototype new pathways to employment and self employment for those young people furthest from the labour market.Expand/collapse Products (1)
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Prospects Prospects will provide a transition into work for those with Aspergers Syndrome by creating an intervention bridge that will prevent young people with Aspergers Syndrome dropping out of school, college and Higher Education and instead enable them to move into employment.
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Reid Kerr College The project will develop a holistic approach to support individuals with moderate to severe learning difficulties and disabilities into supported employment in the Renfrewshire area.Expand/collapse Products (1)
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Starting Point This project is being delivered by Momentum one of Scotland's leading not for profit organisations.Expand/collapse Products (1)
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STRIVE DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT A NEW PROCESS OF ENGAGING WITH UNEMPLOYED INDIVIDUALS THAT INVOLVES MOVING THEM THROUGH A SERIES Of STAGES OF BEHAVIOURAL CHANGES INTO SUSTAINABLE EMPLOYMENT.
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University of Paisley The University of Paisley will develop and evaluate a new course for employment advisors working with the target client groups.Expand/collapse Products (1)
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