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Deliver interventions that focus on prevention of unemployment and long term benefit dependency
Provide Economic Inclusion Opportunities for All
  • Support for people affected by large-scale redundancies, including advice, information and guidance, upskilling and routeways into alternative work.
  • Job-search skills and job-search support skills training for employability, skills for life and vocational skills to the required level.
  • Capacity building to enable existing provision and partners to join up activities and develop coherent pathways to employment, as well as multi-agency training to ensure appropriate interventions.
  • Provision and encouragement of volunteering activity and pre-employment programmes to maintain skills and motivate the development of informal networks.
  • Condition-management programmes to enable those with health-related illnesses to progress towards work.
  • Work with employers to ensure progression into jobs with training, and support for people who are underemployed to enable them to reach their full employment potential.
  • Identify and provide for the skills needs of migrant workers and minority ethnic groups (for example to reduce language barriers).
  • Inter-generational activities to support all age integration utilising and sharing the expertise and experience of others.
  • Programmes and a marketing strategy to raise aspirations for a higher-wage economy with year-round  employment opportunities.
Rachael Butler - Job Centre Plus
  • Cornwall Works has become established as the umbrella for welfare to workforce activity in Cornwall and has brought together providers, agencies and organisations that impact on the welfare to workforce agenda, joining up provision, filling gaps, developing key links between health and employment interventions and working with the VCS. All of the new Convergence ESF priority 4 adult programmes will be delivered under the Cornwall Works brand.  The Cornwall Works approach to tackling worklesness was chosen as a good practice demonstration area for the LAA. this invilved a presentation to Ministers at DCLG. A further presentation given to the Convergence PMC was also well received.  There is a good practice case study based on cornwall Works on the IDEA web-site, faciltated by Cornwall Enterprise
  • Multi-agency workshops have been held across organisations and we have delivered themed workshops for frontline health workers, housing officers and housing support workers, mental health teams etc. These have increased the number of referrals of workless individuals from agencies to Cornwall Works partners.  These have continued and have been combined with workshops around child poverty in workless households in partnership with the Real Choices programme
  • On a strategic level we have given presentations and gained buy-in from the PCT board and the Community Safety Partnership.
  • A number of new activities have been developed with health including health trainers, workshops at RCH Treliske for patients supported by the occupational health team and pilots of advisers in GP surgeries. Through the Real Choices programme we have built a workless household care pathway into the assessment undertaken by mid-wives and health visitors for pregnant women. This will become part of the core service delivery.  when worklessness is identified a referral will be made to Cornwall Works who will source the most appropriate support from the range of provision available          
  • Use of the Passport to Work continues to grow. We have piloted the use of 60 passports and have recived good feedback. They are particularly helpful for people with mental health  issues. The passport will now be used in all three of the DWP ESF programmes to enable people to evidence key employbility skills in the workplace.  We have also shared the passport with colleagues in Coventry
  • Cornwall Works is delivering an additional 10 pre-employment routeways from Jan 08 to August 08, will engage with a minimum of 71 people and support 36 into work. Cornwall Works Skills for Jobs was the only programme of this kind that started and delivered on time. Numbers have now increased to 221 participants by the end of March 2009.  To date 97 people have been supported with 20 into work so far
    Major employers in Cornwall are signing up to support the government's Local Employment Partnerships, committing to give more opportunities to disadvantaged labour market groups.  
    Cornwall Works piloted a Young Enterprise prgramme for NEETs, supporting 3 teams from Treneere, Goldsithney and Bodmin to take part in the national programme.  the team from Chestnuts in Bodmin recently won the South West finals
    Work with CAB and Inclusion Cornwall on financial inclusion and debt continues. Cornwall Works and Real Choices are funding a pilot to place a CAB adviser in Jobcentre Plus offices in Bodmin and St.Austell to give early advice to new benefit claimants.  This type of activity will be picked up via JCP Convergence programmes.

All the above activites will continue through the new LAA and the Convergence ESF delivery. Current programmes run to the end of June 2011

No. of new initiatives established A wide range of additional activites and interventions have ben delivered - however the Cornwall works approach is to try to embed these within current delivery rather than create more new initiatives. In terms of recent major programmes that will continue to deliver these interventions across Cornwall and Scilly, £16m of ESF has been invested through DWP (Jobcentre Plus) co-financing in 3 programmes that will support over 7,000 people by end June 2011.  In addition, pathways to work, a new mainstram DWp prgramme commencs in Cornwall and Scilly in December 2007 and is supporting new incapacity benefit claimants to remain in touch with and ultimately return to the labout market

No. of beneficiaries/clients 

50+ employment rate 69.4%

Lone Parent employment rate 53.4%

PWD employment rate - 52.8%

Employment rates of disadvantaged labour market groups:

People aged 50+, lone Parents and  people with Disabilities

                                               

Positive impact on S&A and Convergence ERDF / ESF Frameworks

We have overcome many barriers to ensure the whole agenda is picked up via Convergence ESF but there are still some concerns over the prime provider approach and this will need to be monitored closely.

Thanks to support from partners we have invested in some inspirational ESF delivery in 3 programmes;  Cornwall Works Plus, Cornwall Works for Social Enterprise and Cornwall Works for Learning Disabilites. Please contact carolyn.webster@jobcentreplus.gsi.gov.uk for further inforamation

02/10/08

 
Deliver interventions focussing on longer term worklessness and economic activity
Provide Economic Inclusion Opportunities for All
  • To identify and overcome barriers to participation for all people outside of the labour market
  • Development of models of engagement and support through the third sector, the creative sector and other sectors, including community development activity where this is clearly linked to a pathway to employment model, building on and exchanging existing good practice in this area. The development of new enterprise/self-employment can be a route out of long-term worklessness.
  • Development of multi-agency/multi-sector pathways to employment programmes that combine innovative methods to engage people who are furthest from the labour market with the provision of 1:1 support to identify and overcome their barriers to progression.
  • Significant capacity building to enable the third sector and the creative sector to develop models of support, working with communities and contributing effectively to the delivery of multi-agency approaches to increasing economic inclusion.
  • Development of demand-led routeways to work: activity that meets the recruitment and skills needs of businesses by supporting people who are most disadvantaged in the labour market to take advantage of such work and training opportunities. This could include the provision of incentives such as wage subsidies and the provision of post-employment support for both businesses and employees.
  • Work with employers to increase the diversity of their workforces and overcome barriers within their recruitment processes and working practices that might prevent particular groups from working for them (e.g. lone parents, offenders, people with disabilities and health problems). 
  • Providing opportunities for retired local people to contribute to the knowledge economy by utilising their knowledge and experience.
  • Additional support and encouragement for full time unpaid carers (including for those who care for the elderly, people with disabilities or who have child-minding responsibilities) to enter or re-enter the workforce such as the provision of increased care services and leisure activities for the elderly. Activities that focus on the transition to work such as assistance with money management and transport
  • Recognise the skills and knowledge of the older generation and create opportunities to utilise this expertise for the benefit the economy.
Rachael Butler - Job Centre Plus
  • We have introduced the Cornwall Works Passport to Work that enables individuals to gain and demonstrate their employability skills in the workplace and have secured a high level of commitment from employers to support this.
  • Work with VCS includes provision of grand days out - focussing on volunteering as a route into work and work with CAB to modularise training to enable more people to volunteer with CAB and to specialise, e.g. in debt advice. The CAB have now launched their Advice Plus transformation programme that will allow them to support more people and give more 1-2-1 advice to people in crisi as well as undertake more preventative work around debt. It also allows for significant increase in volunteering within CAB as a pathway to employment
  • We have developed neighbourhood action teams in the NRF priority neighbourhoods, are piloting a young enterprise programme aimed at NEETs/at risk of becoming NEET.  A major new mainstream programme - pathways to Work starts in Cornwall on 3 December, this will provide holistic support, including
    condition management programmes for all new incapacity benefit claimants. A futher 23 Neighbourhood Action Teams will be developed through Convergence ESF
  • We have secured an additional £600,000 of Treasury funding for a project to reduce child poverty by supporting workless families into work. So far 83 families have received direct support 
  • The Convergence ESF (DWP) specifications are aligned to Cornwall Works and will provide a further £16million over the next 3 years to support the worklessness agenda. Targets are to engage 8400 people and support 3000 into work with on-going training and development. Two programmes commenced 23 June and the other on 14 July. We have undertaken 4 major launch events for Jobcentre Plus and other advisers in C0rnwall and Scilly - with over 350 people attending. A futher event for parners will take place in September. presentations hve been made to the Voluntary Sector Forum.  the vast majority of delivery organisations sub-contracted to the prime providers are voluntary sector organisations

    Jobcentre Plus is currently planning for the introduction of a series of welfare reforms.The introduction of a new benefit to replace incapacity benefit - the Employment and Support Allowance which places a greater emphasis on keeping in touch with the labour market and changes to benefits for some lone parents alongside additional help to enable them to return to work has now started. Tendering has also begun for a major new mainstream programme - Flexible New Deal (fnd) that will streamline and replace the current range og new deals into a single programme from October 2009. FND provides a real opportunity to mainstream some of the ESF delivery

Updated 05.01.09

Currently working with 600 people on IB for 2 years+
Now working with 900 with 75% of the job outcome target achieved

250
1.6% by March 08

Percentage of people leaving local authority care into work/training or education Achieved

Reduce Overall Claim Rate in the priority NRF neighbourhoods Transferred to new LAA with an additional 4 areas added

Number of people on IB for 2 years or more supported into work  On target

Will have a significant impact on the delivery of the economic inclusion targets of Strategy and Action, the Local Area Agreement, Sustainable Community Strategy and the Convergence ESF framework 

05/01/09