Long-term unemployed

Improved government investment, expenditure and procurement

- Government investment in employment, training and education - Government expenditure on improving access to and quality of education - Funding for public programmes/schemes that promote employability - Use of procurement practices and public sector contracts designed to improve social outcomes (e.g. contracts that enable social enterprises and smaller SMEs to bid, outcomes-aligned contracts)

Improved quality and availability of training that fits with the needs of employers

- Number of training opportunities available - Breadth of training opportunities available (e.g. vocational instruction and interviewing skills, job-related technical skills, and emotional intelligence and soft skills) - Number of apprenticeships and internships that convert into full-time jobs - Number of job vacancies because of skills shortages - Unemployment and long-term unemployment rates  - Proportion of people who are accessing better support programmes to find work