Transcript Skills and social inclusion

Ten challenges for Welfare to Work
Paul Convery
Centre for Economic & Social Inclusion
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Ten challenges for Welfare to Work
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JSA - less than 20% of benefit population
Helping claimants facing multiple barriers
Solutions tailored to local needs
Greater employer engagement
Retention and progression
Better-off in-work
Earlier intervention
Improving provider performance
Better co-ordination
Individualised support
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A lot has changed since 1997
 Macro economic stability - jobs growth
 "making work pay", Minimum Wage and tax credits;
 employability programmes - New Deals - plus
practical support such as childcare;
 services for those most disadvantaged in the labour
market;
 modernised delivery - single entry point to benefits
and work and private/voluntary sector delivery
 education and training
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Government targets for next 10 years
 a higher percentage employed “than ever before”;
 raising the proportion of lone parents in work to 70%;
 narrowing the productivity gap with USA, Germany,
France and Japan "over the economic cycle"
 majority of UK young people in higher or further
education;
 halving child poverty (eradicating within 20 years)
 750,000 adults to improve basic skills (by 2004)
 closing the gap in employment rates for ethnic
minorities, 50+, disabled, lone parents and in 30
districts with poor labour market position (by 2004).
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20%
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Ju l- 0 1
Ap r - 0 1
Ja n - 0 1
O ct-0 0
Ju l- 0 0
Ap r - 0 0
Ja n - 0 0
70%
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Ju l- 9 9
Ap r - 9 9
Ja n - 9 9
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Sus t a in e d jo bs
New Deal 18-24 job entry
80%
A ll dests
Know n dests
60%
50%
40%
30%
New Deal 25+ job entry (% of known leavers)
Sustained Jobs (%)
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
Sus. Unsub. Jobs/Leavers
5%
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Mar-01
Jan-01
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Nov-99
0%
New Deals need to improve
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Less than 40% of entrants get sustained jobs (18-24)
Only 16% get sustained jobs (25+)
¼ of entrants (18-24) get un-sustained employment
marked geographical variations in outcomes
least employable are being helped less
ethnic minority job entry – up to 40% lower than for
white participants
 1 in 3 participants are re-entrants (18-24)
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Help for those facing severe barriers
 Lone parents: childcare costs; tax credits; training
grants; minimum income guarantees; IS “run-ons”;
self-employment
 Disabled people: national network of Job Brokers;
intervention at early stages of sickness and disability
(job retention and rehabilitation pilots); re-designed
and re-funded Supported Employment Programme
(“WORKSTEP”)
 Older long term unemployed: New Deal 50+ and
New Deal 25+ better funded & more flexible
 Initiatives for rough sleepers, drug misuers, ex
prisoners
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Job retention, advancement and wage
gain
Programmes & agencies focussed towards :
– Investing in supplier capability plus increased
competition and user choice
– Shift in services towards post-placement
– Standards driven by employer demand, not by
public sector supply - with "stretched" outcome
goals
– Work orientated services
– Focussed and achievable job goals
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New delivery models and agencies
 “Jobcentre Plus”: for all working age claimants – PA
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service; customised training; ICT based services
(vacancies, in-work benefit calculations, “Homes
Direct”)
Employment Zones: Personal Job Account;
concentration on high unemployment areas
Action Teams: outreach and flexibility
Employer engagement: SSCs, Employer Coalitions
Local Strategic Partnerships
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New Deal “next phase”
 StepUP - guaranteed jobs programme (ILMs)
 progress2work for drug misusers
 Adviser Discretion Fund (£300 budget)
 “Ambition” programmes
 Tailored Pathways – modular:
– short work focused training
– flexible packages of work experience, training and subsidised
employment (“blending and picking” options)
 Action Teams
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Ten challenges for Welfare to Work
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10.
JSA - less than 20% of benefit population
Helping claimants facing multiple barriers
Solutions tailored to local needs
Greater employer engagement
Retention and progression
Better-off in-work
Earlier intervention
Improving provider performance
Better co-ordination
Individualised support
www.cesi.org.uk