Our vision is to seek a step change for a vibrant Glasgow where ‘Everyone who is able to work can, given the right type of job and the appropriate supports’.
Glasgow is changing in many ways, but one crucial way is how we deliver services to support people on their journey (back) into employment. Glasgow Works will be a key factor in the city realising the dream of full employment for it’s’ citizens.
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"The Glasgow Works business plan sets out an ambitious agenda for Glasgow. There are major challenges ahead, and the targets are stretching indeed, but the goal of reduced unemployment, reduced child poverty and a workforce enabled to contribute to its full potential for Glasgow is worth the effort.
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I very much look forward to working with you to make sure we all do our best to achieve it."
Jim McColl, Chair, Glasgow Works Partnership
Glasgow Works is Glasgow’s City Strategy Pathfinder, one of fifteen established by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in the UK; The strategy was developed by Glasgow’s Welfare to Work Forum and in May 2007, DWP announced the success of the bid and allocated some £13m of funding over the four years until March 2011; The Glasgow Works strategy also incorporates the employability elements of ‘A Step Change for Glasgow and Glasgow Community Plan 2005-2010
The strategy has three primary objectives:
- to simplify structures and processes for decision making;
- to establish a new contracting mechanism for funding employability services in the city;
- to develop new streamlined services for priority employers.
with the end aim to effect a reduction in the number of workless residents in Glasgow.
At the time of developing the strategy, May 06, some 95,000 Glasgow residents of working age were workless, and 88,000 of those were on the main inactive benefits: Job Seekers, Lone Parents and Incapacity Benefit. Research undertaken at the time indicated that around 30% of these people were interested in working. It was also noted that some specific groups including the over 50’s, young people and members of ethnic minority communities, were extremely disadvantaged. The Strategy aims therefore to focus efforts on those groups, and to create the right conditions for large numbers of people to engage with employability services.