Work Programme

East LondonWednesday 11th May

Louise Duncan Regional Development Manager, A4e

A4e Background

Justice

Skills & Training

Legal

Financial Guidance

Enterprise

Transitions

Welfare to Work

Independent Living

FSIThe FSI has donated services, training days, forums,workshops, partnerships and donations of almost£2m to over 750 small charities

We help over 22,000 clients each year with problemsrelating to debt, family, employment housing andbenefits and tax credits

Our Community Legal Advice Centres in Hull andLeicester have dealt with over 60,000 legal mattersbetween them, in just under two years

We currently provide education and training to over8,500 prisoners within 28 prisons across the UK

We support the hard to reach communities deliveringSkills for Life qualifications helping to increase theiropportunities

39% of all pupils in our Vocational Centres havebeen excluded from school, 64% are at risk of beingexcluded and 72% achieve qualifications

Over the past 10 years we have helped over 20,000new companies start-up and grow through businesssupport and entrepreneurship programmes

The second largest provider of Direct Payments services in the UK, you can trust A4e to deliver a reliable, personalised service.

We offer a wide range of advice, training and solutions to candidates that are either changing careers or facing redundancy to help them to achieve their desired goal

International

Work Programme

Customer Journey

The Customer Journey

Work Programme – Core elements

A4e Five Building Blocks of Sustainability

The core requirements to move away from benefits dependency

3 Development Programmes

Support for Life – our sustainability offer

• Sustainability risk profile• Can be light touch, can be intensive support• Life focused, skills focused, employer focused• 8am to 8pm• Basic barriers that emerge - travel, finance, childcare• In work health support• A career not just a job – skills and training focus• Re-commence – maintaining momentum for customers

who have left work

Our A4e Solution• Blended approach

– Self delivery (c.53%) – Subcontracting (c.47%)

• No imposed model to supply chain. • Flexible commercial model

• Self delivery– A4e Transitions – Graduates and Professionals– A4e Enterprise – support Job creation– Community Manager – attend LEG, LSP, etc– 4 new Voxs Centres in London– Outreach approach e.g. Children centres, libraries, GP Surgeries

• Partners– Geographical End to End – Specialist End to End e.g. Disability Works– Intervention Partner e.g. Beonsite, New Deal of the Mind, Addison Lee– Strategic Partnerships e.g. Dress for Success, Save the Children/ FAST, Adecco, Crossrail, Citizens

Trust, People Supermarket

Aspirations / Challenges for London CPA

• Using Work Programme as a platform for future growth– Taking a “Total Person” approach to include families, health, justice.

• Integration with current local activity - role of Community Officer

• Payment by results contract needs to have additional funding support. – Working with local providers and funding bodies to have access to

other areas of funding to support.

• London has the lowest employment and generally national employment contracts tend to have the lowest outcomes in London.– The 6 primes are working together on support for London through the

GLA, including Jobs access, Skills and Health.

Gaps and Further Partnership Opportunities

– Currently working with our supply chain to confirm delivery.

– Will determine gaps over the first quarter and evolve partnerships

– Will contact our registered partners of opportunities on WP or any future bids

– To register : http://www.mya4e.com/partners/ or contact Amber Shotton ashotton@a4e.co.ukOr Louise Duncan lduncan@a4e.co.uk