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Annex 1: The Five Workstreams
The Workless Client Group Workstream; chaired by Professor Gill Scott, from the School of Law and Social Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University. Their remit was to develop a clear picture of the workless client groups, the opportunities available to enable them to enter the labour market, and the barriers to employment.
In order to do this, their report would include:
- A statement on the size and definition of the key client groups, including any geographical factors
- Agreement on the common principles of intervention
- Assessment of what makes interventions successful (communicating with the Interventions Workstream)
- Agreement on the barriers to and prospects for employment, identifying common elements and those which are specific to a particular group
- A picture of how clients are currently engaged by different initiatives
- Agreement on the basis for future services and interventions
- Recommendations on the advantages and disadvantages of targeting specific groups
- Agreement on the opportunities for, and threats to, achieving the recommended outcomes.
The Employment Demand Workstream; chaired by Tom Laidlaw, Home Services Manager at Scottish Gas. This group's remit was to develop a clear picture of the employment demand side, including good practice in engaging with employers and matching individuals to employment opportunities.
Their report would include:
- Agreement on the principles of, and priorities for, meeting labour market demand
- Identifying and highlighting good practice in employer engagement, identifying strategies which encourage strong relationships between agencies and employers
- Identifying how the public sector should set a lead example
- Identifying and highlighting good practice in sustaining employment
- A full picture of the interventions used by agencies and employers to match individuals to particular employment opportunities, and recommendations for change
- Recommendations on the advantages and disadvantages of targeting specific client groups
- Agreement on the opportunities for, and threats to, achieving the recommended outcomes.
The Interventions Supply Workstream; chaired by Richard Scothorne, of Rocket Science UK Ltd. Their remit was to develop a clear view of the kind of interventions that will be most beneficial in helping people make the transition towards and into work, who is best placed to provide them and how the current map of provision could be redrawn to reduce gaps and duplication.
They would provide:
- Agreement on the common principles of intervention
- Recommendations on stakeholders' strategic roles, and how they relate to the interventions needed
- Statement of the national interventions that are currently available
- Agreement about interventions which work communicating with workstream 1(a)
- Recommendations about interventions which are ineffective and should be discontinued
- Agreement on areas of duplication and how they will be resolved
- Recommendations on the future of related funding streams
- Agreement on the opportunities for, and threats to, achieving the recommended outcomes.
The NEET Group Workstream; chaired by Eddy Adams and David Smart, of Eddy Adams Consultants. This Group was charged with developing an analysis and recommendations to help reduce the 'flows' into NEET (new and repeat) and the "stock" of young people already NEET.
In doing this it aimed to:
- develop a shared understanding of the rationale for intervention;
- develop a shared understanding of the purpose of intervention; and
- ensure that the right level and forms of intervention are in the right places.
The Low Paid/Low Skilled Workstream; chaired by John Ramsay, Chair of the Sector Skill Council, Cogent. This group's remit was to ensure that employees in low paid work know how to make the move into higher paid or higher skilled employment and receive appropriate support to do so; and second, to ensure that employers know how to access advice and support to develop their employees and hence their business.
To do this, the group would develop:
- An agreed definition of what constitutes Low Pay - Low Skilled work (by defining Low Pay and defining Low Skilled) and deciding on our focus;
- a shared understanding of the rationale for and the purposes of intervention;
- a shared understanding of the delivery mechanisms available for interventions to be made; and
- an agreement as to how to measure success.
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