Dumfries & Galloway Local Employability & Skills Partnership Employability Support

Dumfries and Galloway Local Employability & Skills Partnership (DGLEP) are looking to work with support organisations and training providers who can deliver a range of employability services to people of all ages. The partnership is funded to provide and commission support for individuals who are unemployed, low skilled or who have a low-income role to support them to move towards and into learning, volunteering, training, education and/or work. There will also be support to help those who are low skilled and on low income to progress within employment. DGLEP oversees Scottish Government No One Left Behind (NOLB) and Best Start Bright Futures funding (BSBF) and UK Government Shared Prosperity Funding (SPF). The Partnership is committed to community wealth building and Fair Work.

DGLEP follows 7 key NOLB principles.

-Treating people with dignity and respect, fairness and equality and continuous improvement

-Providing flexible, needs based and person-centered support

-Employability services are straightforward for people to navigate and there is no wrong door

Integrated and aligned with other services – building on the Scottish Approach to service design with the user at the centre -Providing pathways into sustainable and fair work

-Driven by evidence including data and the experience of users

-Support more people to move into the right job, at the right time

In the 2022-27 Delivery Strategy DGLEP committed to improving outcomes for all those unemployed, low incomes or low skilled. The plan identifies the following ambitions for priority groups: -Few children in workless households/ experience poverty

-More people with physical and mental health conditions including disabilities and with additional support needs in work -More young people in positive destinations, particularly those who are care experienced.

-Fewer long term unemployed people

-Fewer employers and SMEs facing skills shortages

-A place focus on:

-Lochside and Lincluden

-Dumfries Central

-Stranraer West

-Summerville

-Annan East

-Upper Nithsdale