Northside Partnership

Presentation to OECD LEED

Seminar

October 2009

Main Objective

• To increase the state’s effectiveness in

delivering local public services

• To promote local participation in

developing solutions to local issues

concerning the local communities

• To improve the social and economic

potential of people in areas of

disadvantage

Table 1: Seasonally Adjusted Unemployment rates 2004 to 2009

Live Register Seasonally Adjusted Standardized Unemployment Rates

Sep-04 Sep-05 Sep-06 Sep-07 Sep-08 Sep-09

% 4.4 4.4 4.5 4.6 7.1 12.6

Source: CSO Live Register September 2009

Unemployment Rates 2004-2009

Table 2: Unemployment by gender and age September 2007 to 2009

Sep-07 Sep-08 Sep-09

Males Females Total Males Females Total Males Females Total

All 98,000 62,600 60,600 56,100 84,200 40,300 80,400 143,300 423700

Under 25 19,900 13,400 33,300 34,000 19,700 53,700 57,200 33,500 90700

% of Total

All 61.0 39.0 100.0 65.0 35.0 100.0 66.2 33.8 100.0

Under 25 12.4 8.3 20.7 14.1 8.2 22.3 13.5 7.9 21.4

Source: CSO Live Register September 2009 (figures rounded to nearest hundred)

Unemployment by Gender & Age

September 2007 – 2009

Table 4: Unemployment In Northside Partnership Sept’ 2008 - 2009

Sep-09

Over 25 Under 25

Labour Exchange

Sep-08 Sep-09 Males Females Males Females Total

Kilbarrack 2,877 5,240 2,794 1,380 726 340 5240

Coolock 2,922 5,324 2,767 1,263 850 444 5324

Source: CSO Live Register September 2009

Northside Partnership catchment area

Unemployment Sept 08 – Sept 09

Age

0-5

Age

5-17

Age

18+

Preparing for

Life

•Breakfast

Clubs

•School

Completion

Programme

•Regional

Education

Network

•Challenger

Programme

•Youth Leadership

•Traveller

Education

Network

•Discovery Centre

•Career

Guidance

Counselling

•Education

Trust - University

•Millennium Fund

- University

Preventing early school leaving Adult Education

‘The Life Cycle Approach’

Education

Northside Partnership

Local Employment Service

Network (LESN)

Other Referral NEAP Referral

Registration/Referral

Mediation Service

Workshops delivered from

2 Locations.

Jobseekers registered

with LESN &

provided with a range

of information

on:

•JobsClubs

•Self Employment

•The JobsHub-Making Happen

•Education options

• FAS – training centre progs

•FAS – CE Programme

•Failte Ireland

JobsHub-Making Change Happen NEAP

Module community based

training:

•Motivation &

direction (ie STEPS)

•Selling Skills for

the new economy

•SYOB

•Becoming a self

employed contractor

•Customer relation

skills for the Services

sector

•Sales Management for

the new economy

•Life Management skills

•Train the Trainer Skills

•Career development &

management programme

Train2Gain

Short Work Week Prog

Upskilling training

Programme for

employees who have had

their working hours reduced

to a 3 day week and who

are in receipt of Jobseekers

Benefit for the days they

are not working.

Learn @ Work

Upskilling programme

Targeting low skilled

employees

Sustaining

Employment

Employment

‘THE LIFE CYCLE APPROACH’ – PROMOTING LIFE LONG LEARNING

•Jobclubs

•NSP Enterprise Unit

•NSP Career

Guidance Service

•Referral to

mainstreaming

training options

•CV Development

•Personal

Development

•Start Your Own

Business

•Post start up

business skills

training

Options

Conclusions

• Partnerships can respond quickly to economic and social change

• Partnership approach is essentially a locally-based anti-poverty strategy

• Outcomes are a result of groups of organisations working together to achieve a common aim & the creation of the neutral space encourage diverse organisations to work in collaboration

• The pursuit of a ‘Life Cycle Approach’ supports a locally-based anti-poverty strategy approach towards education, training and employment

• Partnerships clearly focus on the development of tailored solutions to individuals & community needs