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.

Case Studies

Case Studies

Case Studies

Case Studies