The document discusses optimizing youth employment opportunities through delivering an integrated employability service for the city. It outlines Edinburgh's strategic skills pipeline which takes a client-centered approach, ensuring strong linkages between people and jobs. The pipeline provides a framework that clarifies roles for stakeholders and integrates national services with community structures. It discusses implementing the model through preparing the workforce supply, engaging with employers to meet demand, and ensuring quality in line with a capital city standard.
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1. Optimising Youth Employment
Opportunities
15th May 2013
Delivering an Integrated
Employability Service for the
City
Brian Martin,
Senior Manager, Employability & Skills,
Economic Development,
City Development Department,
The City of Edinburgh Council
E-mail: brian.martin@edinburgh.gov.uk
Tel: +44 131 529 3130
2. Delivering and Integrated Employability
Service for the City
• Introduction and Background
• Strategy for Jobs
• City of Edinburgh Council/CPP Integrated Employability
Service
• Edinburgh’s Strategic Skills Pipeline
• Youth Employment Action Plan
• Questions
4. SDS Chair and CEO Introduction
- The Employability Fund
• The Employability Fund embodies a new approach
to developing Scotland’s pre-employment skills offer.
It builds on the progress being made across
Scotland to simplify the skills system so that the
investment best meets the needs of individuals,
employers and communities across the country. In
recent years Skills Development Scotland (SDS) has
worked closely with Local Employability Partnerships
and advisory groups to move towards a co-
commissioning approach to the National Training
Programme provision. The Employability Fund takes
this a step further, allowing greater flexibility in the
way funding can be accessed, and also encouraging
greater ownership and responsibility for tackling
employability issues locally.
5. CEC Employability Commissioning
Strategy
Edinburgh’s Strategic Skills Pipeline
• The “strategic skills pipeline” is based on the
customer being at the heart of the service, with
service providers (local and national)
collaborating to meet the “full” needs of our
jobseekers and employers. This ensures there is
a strong linkage between people and jobs.
• The pipeline also provides a framework that
helps clarify the roles of the various
stakeholders.
6. • Strategic and outcome focused rather than project-led
• Focused around the needs of clients and the real
opportunities in the city
• Provides a clear structure within which services fit,
playing to strengths and underpinned by common
performance management systems.
• Seeks to integrate with National Services and
Community Structures
INTEGRATED EMPLOYABILITY SERVICE
9. Strategic Skills Pipeline
Implementing the Model
• Preparing the
supply
• Engaging with
Employers
• Meeting the
Demand
• Assuring Quality
• Capital City
Standard
