Clear ambitions for how the service will have changed and improved by 2010-11
We have set out an ambitious agenda in this chapter. Over the next few years this will involve DWP and DIUS, as well as providers and delivery partners, developing new ways of working together to achieve our shared objectives. This represents a substantial change for many parts of the public sector, including Jobcentre Plus, the LSC, further education colleges and other providers. The new Skills Funding Agency will also have a key role in ensuring the delivery of an integrated employment and skills agenda; making sure the Further Education sector is aware of and encouraged to deliver against this.
We need a clear ambition to ensure that we make progress, given the range of new developments. These include skills screening and skills health checks, the adult and advancement and careers services, Skills Accounts, local devolution and the integration of the employment and skills systems.
We are putting in place an integrated system that will increase people's chances of getting into sustained employment with skills progression, and through which in 2010-11 over 100,000 people will be helped to gain sustainable employment and to achieve a recognised qualification. We hope this shared ambition will be an incentive for all partners to deliver a system that truly helps individuals into sustainable employment and progression and supports businesses to succeed in the future.
Footnotes
- As noted at the start of this document, while most of the policies are specific to England, the challenges are common across four countries. DWP operates across Great Britain and works closely with the Devolved Administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. While structures and policies differ, each has a commitment to a more integrated employment and skills service. City Strategy Pathfinders exist in both Scotland and Wales and we will work closely with the Devolved Administrations and their local partnerships to identify how we can develop approaches there which are similar to those set out in this chapter.
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