No One Left Behind: strategic plan - first annual report
This first annual report on the Employability Strategic Plan 2024-2027 demonstrates how we are working in partnership, harnessing the expertise of organisations taking a cross sectoral, collaborative approach to delivering improvements to Scotland’s employability services.
5. Our next steps together – a look ahead to Year 2
We will continue to build on the ambitions and policy aims set out in the Strategic Plan. We will work together to assess the impact of our strengthened networks and updated guidance documents to ensure they are supporting improved experiences and outcomes for people accessing our services. We will also use the learning from independent evaluation activity to inform and drive improvement to policy and delivery.
As we move forward, we will pivot our focus to the medium and long term actions. This will include further development of our communications activity, improvement of the Shared Measurement Framework, aligning our parental employability support actions with the next Tackling Child Poverty Action Plan and exploring training and qualification requirements for employability delivery staff.
Whilst there are changes in the Scottish policy landscape, devolved employability services must also be responsive to changes at a UK level. As we move into Year 2 of the plan, we will continue to work with UK Government on the implications of the ‘Get Britain Working’ white paper.
We remain committed to being transparent and we will continue to publish annual reports and we will jointly review the priorities for our next annual report to ensure they still reflect the policy and delivery landscape. Over the remaining period of this Strategic Plan, we will continue to deliver strengthened partnerships, more aligned and integrated support, and most importantly, better outcomes for those accessing our services.
Governance Approach
The following organisations have contributed to one or more of the collaborative working groups that have supported the actions outlined in this document.
- Aberdeenshire Council
- Aberdeenshire Lived Experience Panel
- Borders Community Action
- British Association of Supported Employment
- Capital City Partnership
- City of Edinburgh Council
- Clackmannanshire Council
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
- COSLA
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Dumfries & Galloway Council
- Dundee City Council
- East Ayrshire Council
- East Lothian Council
- East Renfrewshire Council
- Employment Related Services Association
- Enable
- Falkirk Council
- Families in Trauma and Recovery
- Fife Gingerbread
- Fife Council
- GCVS
- Glasgow City Council
- Highland Council
- Improvement Service
- Inclusion Scotland
- Inspiralba
- Kelvin College
- Moray Council
- North Ayrshire Council
- North Lanarkshire One Parent Families Scotland
- Orkney Islands Council
- Public Health Scotland
- Renfrewshire Council
- Routes to Work (North), Scottish Action for Mental Health
- Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities
- Scottish Government
- Scottish Training Foundation
- Scottish Union for Supported Employment
- Shetland Islands Council
- Skills Development Scotland
- Stirling Voluntary Enterprise
- Street League
- The Ayrshire Community Trust
- Third Sector Interface Network
- Third Sector Dumfries & Galloway
- Third Sector Employability Forum Executive
- University of Strathclyde
- Values into Action Scotland
- Voluntary Action North Lanarkshire
- Voluntary Sector Gateway West Lothian
- Volunteer Glasgow.
List of working groups:
- Commissioning
- Communication
- Service Design
- Skills & Qualifications
- LEP Framework Working Group
- Shared Measurement Framework
- SES Implementation
- Partnership Assurance Group
- Improvement Group.
Contact
Email: Nooneleftbehind@gov.scot