No One Left Behind: employability strategic plan 2024 to 2027

1. Plan on a page

Employability policy contributes to national outcomes focussed on:

• Fair Work and Business
• Human Rights
• Poverty
• Children and Young People
• Communities
• Health
• Education
• Economy

Strategic Context - National Strategy for Economic Transformation; Fair Work Action plan; Best Start, Bright Futures; Verity House Agreement and COSLA Plan

Our Policy Vision - To deliver an employability system that tackles inequalities in Scotland’s labour market, creating a responsive and aligned approach that helps people of all ages who face the greatest barriers to progress towards, into and to sustain work.

Our strategic priorities:

• Continuing to improve the employability system
• Increasing awareness and uptake of employability support
• Tackling child poverty by increasing parental income from employment
• Supporting disabled people and those with a long term health condition Delivering jointly with wider public services Working with employers to improve outcomes
• Supporting a just transition and net zero

Outcomes:

• Supporting the creation of a labour market that is fair, inclusive and provides sustainable and well-paid jobs.
• Enabling equal access to an increased range of opportunities whilst challenging bias, structural and personal barriers.
• Helping people into fair and sustainable jobs to deliver inclusive growth, tackle child poverty and support better health.
• Providing person-centred support to people who wish to work but face barriers to do so.

Our Principles:

• Provide flexible and person-centred support
• Integrated and aligned with other services
• Driven by evidence, including data and the experience of users
• Straightforward for people to navigate
• Provide pathways into sustainable and fair work
• Support more people to move into the right job, at the right time

Our Values:

• Dignity and Respect
• Fairness and Equality
• Continuous Improvement

Shared Measurement Framework

Customer Charter

Service Standards