Executive Summary
In areas with the best track records of working together, such as Manchester and the West Midlands, we are beginning to bring together the commissioning of core employment and skills services, such as flexible New Deal and Train to Gain. The Government is also looking at more innovative ways to bring together an even wider range of providers and local partners, including health, childcare and youth services, to support those with the most entrenched issues. And we are testing new ways of embedding closer working within the incentives of the system. Through groundbreaking trials we will test new success measures, to inform the future development of the flexible New Deal, Pathways to Work and Learning and Skills Council (LSC) funded provision, including Skills for Life and employability training.
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. 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
- HM Government (2006) Leitch Review of Skills: Prosperity for all in the global economy.
- £7,000 is the average amount an individual without any qualifications could be entitled to to enable them to gain basic skills, first full Level 2 and first full Level 3. The Level 3 entitlement applies just to those aged 19-25.
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