The document discusses partnering with Pathway Group and provides information on their priorities and strategies. It outlines Pathway Group's focus on igniting interest in employment, accelerating workforce readiness, and ensuring support for unemployed individuals. Additionally, it describes the UK government's employment initiatives like Universal Credit and increased digital support services, as well as Pathway Group's approach to wellbeing bids that integrates specialist providers and offers tailored interventions.

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July 2016

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Priority Strategy
• Ignite the interest and ambition
• Accelerate – To ensure that the workforce
is ready for employment opportunities.
Better jobs Wealth, Heath and Happiness
• Retune- We've got make sure those in the
adult population get support they need to
progress, Heath.
What are we going to do to make people
who are unemployed to be favoured by
employers?

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Changes and Innovations
• Jobcentre staff support and tailor support via digital and 1to1 with
staff assisting Work Coach approach contracting on person rather
than benefits.
• Universal credit making changes moving people into work quicker 50%
more time looking for work
• making the transition in to work easier. Increased use of online
claim system.
• Half a million into sustained employment via Work Programme
30,000 in Birmingham.
• Will this be sustained with the prospect of a slow down or possible
recession looming?
• Will JCP delivery Match the Private Sector?
There seems to be no evidence to suggest JCP can delver on this!

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• We are now working from circular
employment to structural employment
• Move to Health and Wellbeing
• Concentrating on those most
vulnerable who are excluded from
work i.e. those with health problems.
Requires universal support to accesses
help with budgeting and digital
services support but will also have
additional support requirements with
many having complex interrelated
barriers.

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Background
A different labour market needs a different response
Spending Review
• Increased support at start of claim
Refined offer
• Weekly work search review for certain customer
groups
• Retaining a menu of additional, support for some
• Additional JCP support after 18 months in the
intensive work search regime
• Additional support for the Young and the Work and
Health Programme.

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Wellbeing Bids
Bidders Need to:
• Remember its Not just CV building it requires a more holistic in depth
support
• Integrate With Specialist Providers
• Take into account additional to support from JCP Offer
• Offer more intensive interventions than JCP offer tailored to specialist
support
• Offer unique support enabled by contacts and support experience
• Take into account Increased devolution of service and offer a local
approach
• Offer Integrated provision

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Wellbeing Bids Strategy
• Reduced payment groups.
• Will de-Incentivise parking of clients
• Incentivise clients
• Ensure on going survival of private
provider market
• Evaluations and control groups added in
to processes
Large package areas with one provider in
each i.e. Circa 10 primes