Sustainable employment and skills – Questions arising from Opportunity, Employment and Progression: making skills work

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January 2008Download the full paper below.

Introduction

Both One Parent Families|Gingerbread and WorkDirections are focused on the need to ensure that the interventions designed to support the transition from benefits to work are sustainable in the long term, and facilitate ongoing progression within the labour market.

We welcome the policy directions outlined in Opportunity, Employment and Progression. For too long the difficulties involved in integrating the skills and employment agendas on the ground have meant those most disadvantaged within the labour market have lost out. Key to the operational success of these interventions, however, will be how readily this approach can be implemented by those delivering employment and skills services to disadvantaged groups. This requires a clear commissioning strategy with the right incentives in place to drive provider (whether public, private or voluntary) performance.

We set out below the key questions that arise from Opportunity, Employment and Progression and the main areas that we think need to be addressed before proposals are taken to the next stage.

Jan08skills-employment-with-work-directions (PDF 53KB)

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