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Working For Families. Presentation Delivered by Kate MacLean - Highlands & Kerry McGuire - North Ayrshire. Working For Families. What’s is its Objectives?. What can it provide?. Target Group?. Way Ahead. Objectives. Increase their chances of sustained employment - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Working For Families
Presentation Delivered by
Kate MacLean - Highlands&
Kerry McGuire - North Ayrshire
Working For Families
Target Group?
What can it provide?
What’s is its Objectives?
Way Ahead
Objectives
•Increase their chances of sustained employment •Improve their confidence & skills •Reduce vulnerability•Regenerate the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods •Improve the health status of people living in deprived communities.•Improve access to high quality services for those in rural communities.
Focus - 3 Main Areas
In frastu re Transitio nal Suppo rt Em plo yability
Sco ttish Execu tive & N A C W fF Steering G ro up
Current - North Ayrshire
In n o vatio ns
Sitter Service
C hildm in der Start- up
M o bile C reche
In frasture
Lin k A dviso rs
STEPS
Tran sitio n al Suppo rt
W elfare R ights
Y o un g Paren tsSuppo rt Pro ject
Thro ughcare
Bright Futures
Em plo yability
N A C W fF Steerin g G ro up & C o - o rdin ato r
Current - Highlands
HC Development Dept
HOL
Project Coordinator Local Steering ChairsPartner Agency
Managers
Parent Champions Area Agency Reps.
In Highland three strands have emerged :
• Access to childcare• Transport to Employment• Training and Education
Target Group
• Parents on Low Income • Lone Parents• Parents with Stresses in the Household
(e.g. Disabilities, Mental Health, Drugs or Alcohol issues)
Working for Families is aimed at:
Infrastructure
In North Ayrshire :
•Flexible Childcare
•Childminder Start-up
•Sitter Service
•Workplace Creche
•*Mobile Creche
Infrastructure
In Highlands :
Develop Childminders through Top-up Scheme with SCMAPartner support of Direct Childcare for sitter and mobile creche serviceForward with Families project, trains volunteers to work in homes with clients far from the job market
Transitional Support
In North Ayrshire & Highlands our Link Advisors& Parent Champions offer:
•Advice & Guidance:
•Childcare Funding:
•Access to Flexible / Affordable Childcare:
•Mentoring and advocacy
Transitional Support
In North Ayrshire our Link Advisors and in Highland our Parent Champions offer :
•Jobsearch Techniques: Applications, CV
Development &
Interview Support:
•Travel Assistance:
•Referral Information:
Employability
In North Ayrshire we offer support toemployment through:
• Welfare Rights• Young Parents Support• Throughcare• Brights Futures• STEPS
Employability
In Highlands we offer support toemployment through:
Childcare through SCMA +Sitter Service +Mobile Creche
Running local courses Confidence and self-esteem building groups Healthy Lifestyles project Funding driving licences, HGV and PSV licences Subsidising transport to work
Innovative Projects
In North Ayrshire we also have the following:
• First Steps to Childcare• Generations Working
in Highland we have :
• Contributed to setting up new Mobile creche and Sitter services
• Developed a top-up scheme to encourage childminders (so clients become self-employed)
• Funded T2E to provide transport to work, childcare and training, in areas without public services
Innovative Projects
Focus Beyond March 2008
Specific
Timebound
Achieveable
MeasureableRealistic
Beyond 2008
I (Scottish Executive) have achieved our objective through the effective
delivery of support services within Local Authority Sites.
Affirmation
To continue building on this success approval was given to provide mainstream funding for Working for
Families to support and assist parents towards and into employment for the next four years.
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