The Employability Team is committed to supporting Glasgow Works to deliver the Welfare to Work City Strategy. The Strategy is concerned with assisting people to move off long-term benefits and into work.
Glasgow Works has awarded its contracts for the delivery of Employability Services to the Local Regeneration Agencies across the city. The Employability Team in DRS will represent the Council on various partnership bodies created to ensure that delivery processes are in place to meet the target of 11,000 people off benefits and in work by May 2009. The team will play an integral role in:
- Ensuring that the relevant management practices and funding resources of the Council and partner organisations are best placed to complement those of Glasgow Works
- Enabling the voluntary, health and social care sectors to support employability
- Exploiting the opportunities for employment from the physical regeneration of the city
- Supporting in-work training and employment progression
- Reducing the number of young people who are not in training, education or employment
There will also be specific involvement in delivering Glasgow Works objectives of helping the following groups to find work:
- People on Incapacity Benefit (IB)
- The over 50s age group
- People with a BME background
- Young People from the More Choices More Chances group
- Lone Parents
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