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Lowlands & Uplands Scotland ESF Programme

Priority 1: Progressing into employment

Allocation ca. £12 million annually
Strategic Delivery Body: Community Planning Partnerships 3 CPPs in eligible areas will run the pilot from March 2008 for 2years

Target groups:

• Hardest to reach - those with multiple deprivations
• Young people at risk, especially NEET - High risk groups
• Employers recruiting from these groups

Example Activities

• Work preparation, Confidence Building - Basic skills Training
• Customised support - Work experience

Priority 2: Progressing through employment

Allocation ca. £10 million annually

Support for low skilled / low paid workers

• Vocational skills training

Addressing gender imbalances in the workforce

• Tailored training & mentoring programmes

Improving managerial skills

• Training for managerial, commercial & e-business skills
• Encouraging start up from less represented groups

Capacity building of social enterprises

• managerial & business skills training for social enterprise staff

Target groups

• Employees who lack basic core skills, including those having low levels of literacy or numeracy, and those for whom English is not their first language
• Employees without qualifications at SCQF level 5 and 6 (SVQ level 2 or level3)
• Specific groups, such as women returners, ethnic minority and migrant workers, and workers with disabilities
• Older workers who need to update their skills to remain or return to the workforce
• Potential and new entrepreneurs and new managers of (both new and existing) SMEs
• Key staff in social enterprises

Eligible activities

• Initiatives to encourage the development of vocational skills among low-skilled and low-waged individuals
• Activities enabling disadvantaged young people and adults to enter apprenticeships, particularly those from groups not traditionally taking up this form of training
• Training/education in basic literacy, numeracy, basic ICT skills and English for speakers of other languages including migrant workers
• Activities to support the progression in employment of disadvantaged young people and adults with low level skills from foundation level up to SVQ level 3
• Training for workers leading to SVQ level 2 and 3 qualifications
• Training, mentoring and supporting men and women who want to enter occupations or sectors where their gender is under-represented,
• Improving entrepreneurial and managerial skills
• Training to provide entrepreneurial, business planning, financial, marketing,and e-skills for those in self-employment and new managers in new and existing SMEs
• Business skills required by workers in social enterprises to improve the sustainability of their organisations

Priority 3: Improving access to lifelong learning

Allocation ca. £4 million annually

• Mainstreaming successfully piloted new approaches to lifelong learning & training
• Development of new training materials
• Development & piloting of new means of delivery
• Skills training for personnel dealing with target groups under Priority 1
• Workplace initiatives to improve access to lifelong learning

Target groups

• Personnel in public and private training/education bodies providing access to lifelong learning and support services to key client groups
• Voluntary sector/social economy organisations
• Agencies working with employers, particularly SMEs, including Learndirect Scotland/Scottish University for Industry
• The Scottish Qualifications Authority, schools, HE institutions, FE institutions and the Scottish Funding Council
• Community learning and development centres and local and community organisations Professional bodies
  Employers, their representative bodies, The Scottish Trades Union Congress, trade unions, and workers organizations

Eligible activities

• Projects that develop and mainstream successfully tested innovative approaches to learning, particularly for the target groups listed under Priority 1
• Development of new training materials or course content to accommodate different cultural and skills backgrounds
• Creation and distribution of new online learning materials
• Projects that develop distance learning and make innovative use of ICT in training
• Skills training for personnel requiring specialist skills to address the employability needs of target groups listed under Priority 1
• Initiatives that support local learning access points
• Innovative workplace initiatives, particularly those linking learning and training for groups of companies or employees which would otherwise not participate in training activities

Contact Details:

ESEP Ltd
Forth House
Burnside Business Court
North Road
Inverkeithing
Fife
KY11 1NZ

Tel: 01383 413141
Fax: 01383 413151

Email: fife@esep.co.uk

www.esep.co.uk