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WORKING FOR FAMILIES

This program, led by Helen Chambers and Margaret Curran MSP, addresses child poverty and employment issues affecting families in Scotland. With a focus on sustainable employment and support for target groups such as lone parents and low-income families, the initiative emphasizes the importance of flexible childcare solutions and comprehensive support services. Discussions on barriers to employment, client perspectives, and evaluating outcomes reveal a multifaceted approach to improve the lives of children in poverty. Solutions include skills training, increased employability, and effective monitoring strategies.

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WORKING FOR FAMILIES

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  1. WORKING FOR FAMILIES Kelvin GalleryUniversity of Glasgow Wednesday, 11th February 2004

  2. Helen ChambersHead of Child Poverty Branch • Margaret Curran, MSP, Minister for Communities • Guidance overview • Sub-session 1 • Coffee • Sub-session 2 • Lunch • Clients perspective • Getting Going • Coffee • Monitoring and evaluation, Keith Hayton, GEN • Enterprise and Sustainability, Vivian Balmain, Community Enterprise in Strathclyde

  3. Margaret Curran MSP, Minister for Communities

  4. Working for Families FundWhy • 320,000 children in households in poverty • 14% children in workless households • 187,000 children <16 of claimants of key benefits (20% of all children <16) But • Unemployment at 5.8%

  5. Barriers • Flexible, affordable, appropriate childcare • Personal circumstances –skills, qualifications, confidence, mental health, culture, debt • Benefit/tax credit complexities • Failure at transition points

  6. Sustainable Employment HE Full-time work FE Skills Training Volunteering Part-time work Worklessness

  7. Activity Training Benefits Job Benefits Study Childcare

  8. Activity Benefits Training Volunteering Study Job Support Childcare

  9. Target groups • Lone parents • pre-New Deal, entering employment, sustaining employment, entering FE/HE • Parents on low income • Other stress in household • disability, mental health, dugs/alcohol problems

  10. Service delivery • Parent Support • Service referral/brokering • Childcare – services/subsidy

  11. Outcomes • Employability focused Not • Childcare outputs

  12. Outcomes • Hard • employment/education/training/new deal • Soft • distance travelled

  13. Core themes • conjunction, alliance, affiliation, connection, combination, tie-up, togetherness a.k.a • Partnership • Sustainability • Flexible, parent-focused services

  14. Sub-session Choices • Urban issues to be overcome Gallery Restaurant (A) 2 minutes from Kelvin Gallery • Rural problems to be overcome Robing Room • Adult support to be delivered Gallery Restaurant (B) 2 minutes from Kelvin Gallery • Childcare challenges Carnegie Room • Client recruitment and referral Kelvin Gallery

  15. Clients Perspective I didn’t think I was worthy of it at all It’s been really confidence building for me I could just put the wean in one room and go up the stair to my class I wish you could do the HNC at Rosemount! The future for me is looking a lot brighter than it did a couple of years ago I was actually quite a bad heroin addict and in a bad way... now I am waiting to go to teacher training college Because I am going out and getting an education it shows my son that’s the way to go …with a bit of encouragement I was told I had the ability to go on and do a HNC

  16. Getting Going • Barriers • Solutions • The Way Forward

  17. Monitoring and Evaluation Guidance Keith Hayton Associate Director GEN Consulting Claremont House 20 North Claremont Street Glasgow G3 7LE Tel: 0845-120-6244 Email: keith.hayton@genconsulting.co.uk

  18. Objectives • Why? • How? • What? • When?

  19. Why? • Demonstrate that the target group is being reached; and • Show that this group is moving closer to employability.

  20. How(1)? • Have a project that will meet the Executive’s objectives; • Quantitative targets; • Have clear project outcomes:- • Numbers moving into/towards work or other positive outcomes; and • NOT the number of childcare places = output – a means to an end NOT the end.

  21. How (2)? • Honesty about what can be achieved with the client group in a relatively short time:- • “Hard” outcomes may be limited; • Need to measure “soft” outcomes

  22. What? • Implement a monitoring and evaluation framework:- • Profile information – show that the client group is being reached; • “Hard” outcomes – meet the Executive’s objectives; • “Soft” outcomes – distance travelled – e.g. changes in motivation and attitudes – need a baseline.

  23. When? • Various times:- • Profile and “soft” baseline at/near the start of the project; • On completion of the intervention – “hard” outcomes plus “distance travelled”; and • At various stages after the completion of the intervention (3, 6 or 12 months?):- • Sustainability of intervention; • “Hard” outcomes; and • “Distance travelled”.

  24. Conclusion • Monitoring and evaluation are not add ons; • Need to incorporated into project design; • If not:- • May not meet Executive’s objectives; • May not be able to show what has been achieved; and • Have to develop systems after the project has started.

  25. Vivian Balmain Development OfficerCommunity Enterprise in StrathclydeEnterprise & Sustainability

  26. The Ideal World • Places for All • Realistic Fees • CTC / WTC • Job Security

  27. The Real World • Lack of Places • Fees • CTC /WTC • Contracts of Employment

  28. Sustainability • Self Sustaining v Subsidised • Sustainability Audits • Sound Business Practice • Investment Readiness Tool • Loan Finance

  29. What Works in Getting People Back to Work • Childcare Works • Full Employment Areas Initiative

  30. Summary of the day All the documents (guidance, outline proforma etc) and press releases issued by The Scottish Executive can be found on: www.scotland.gov.uk/workingforfamilies

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