Outcomes and Timescales
Workforce Plus - an Employability Framework for Scotland was launched on 12 June 2006 by the Deputy Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning, Allan Wilson, and Minister for Communities, Malcolm Chisholm, at a visit to STRIVE in West Dunbartonshire. The Framework sets out actions both at national and local levels for helping more people back into work. The Framework will support Closing the Opportunity Gap (CtOG) Target A, which is to Reduce the number of workless people dependent on DWP benefits in Glasgow, North & South Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire & Inverclyde, Dundee and West Dunbartonshire by 30,000 by 2007 and 66,000 by 2010. The Executive has worked with the 7 key areas who have set this overall national target. Targets for each individual area are set out in Table A. The Executive has allocated a total of £11 million to these areas to provide transitional support from current patterns of expenditure towards new services under Workforce Plus. The details of the allocation for each area for 2006-08 are contained in Table B.
Table A - Individual area targets
Table B - Funding allocation for each area 2006-08.
Target A Monitoring Data
We have used externally chaired working groups to look at a range of issues - each focusing on a particular aspect of the 'employability service'. The working groups looked at workless client groups, the employment demand side, the intervention supply side, te low paid, low skilled and those not in education, employment and training.