Birmingham City Council PrioritiesEmployment & Skills 2010-2011 :
Birmingham City Council PrioritiesEmployment & Skills 2010-2011 Working Neighbourhoods Fund
Corporate Employment and Skills approach
Employment Access Team- Employer engagement through Planning role
Procurement policy framework for Jobs and Skills
External partnerships for Jobs and Skills
(Birmingham Growing Together)
Worklessness & the Third Sector :
Worklessness & the Third Sector Strengths
Engagement of excluded clients in places of trust
Specialist “Sheltered” work environments (e.g. ILM model)
Locally determined jobs (e.g. Social enterprise; Voluntary sector Future Jobs Fund places)
Operating at the interface between funding streams (Holistic approach to client need) Challenges
Scarce resources !
Commissioned contracts not grants for infrastructure costs- sustainability ?
Partnership and collaborative approach
Measuring and articulating client distance travelled-social auditing/ cost benefit analysis
Can Total Place be an opportunity to develop third sector involvement ?
Cross –directorate procurement opportunities :
Cross –directorate procurement opportunities Principle of making procurement more accessible to third sector agencies- Corporate working group chaired by Jason Lowther
Some examples:
Enterprise & trading activity
Social enterprise opportunities around personalisation of care budgets
(WNF funded South West Enterprise Hub)
Grounds & Housing maintenance, Street-lighting , back office services as tender and client employment opportunities
Employment & Skills services
Children ,Young People & Families Young People’s training & Employment Pathways budget (Procurement plan currently being redrafted- should be available September 2010)
ESF Co-financing through SFA: Young People – service spec. in July: 19+ in September/October
Community Cohesion in a recession :
Community Cohesion in a recession Birmingham Vision 2026 / Community Cohesion strategy
Total Place: Total community pilot
Integrated holistic approach to needs in a locality
Tackling causes not symptoms
Doing more for less (i.e. in the medium/ long term it costs more to keep someone on benefits than to intervene to support them into work)
Holistic client focused approach
Local Employment & Skills plans to direct worklessness support services to neighbourhoods with demonstrably high levels of need