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Outcomes Matrix - Employment, training and education

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Individuals

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Has found a way to address barriers to employment, education or training (including childcare, disability or benefits issues)

  • Would be financially better off in work than not
    • Addiction issues
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Homeless
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Mental health needs
    • Parents
    • Victims of crime
    • Young people
    - Differential between income and benefits
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  • Improved specialist support (relevant education and training)
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Long-term health conditions
    • Mental health needs
    • Older people
    - Has access to meaningful, relevant and high quality further education and training
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  • Improved specialist support (leaving prison)
    • Ex-offenders
    - Length of time taken to secure employment after leaving prison
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  • Improved specialist support (education, training and employment opportunities)
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Long-term health conditions
    • Young people
    - Is satisfied with education, training and employment opportunities
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  • Improved specialist support (education, employment or training)
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Mental health needs
    • Older people
    • Parents
    • Young people
    - Has access to specialist support to find education, employment or training
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  • Improved access to job-specific resources
    • Addiction issues
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Homeless
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Mental health needs
    • Parents
    • Victims of crime
    • Young people
    - Has appropriate clothing for interviews - Has access to courses - Has access to the internet and media for job searching
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  • Improved access to affordable transportation
    • Addiction issues
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Homeless
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Mental health needs
    • Older people
    • Parents
    • Young people
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  • Improved access to affordable childcare
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Homeless
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Mental health needs
    • Parents
    • Young people
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Is in suitable employment, education or training and has the on-going support to maintain it if necessary

  • Is in suitable training
    • Addiction issues
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Homeless
    • Living in poverty
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Mental health needs
    • Older people
    • Parents
    • Victims of crime
    • Young people
    - Is in part-time training - Is in full-time training - Level of attendance
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  • Is in suitable employment
    • Addiction issues
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Homeless
    • Living in poverty
    • Long-term health conditions
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Mental health needs
    • Older people
    • Parents
    • Victims of crime
    • Young people
    - Is in part-time employment (at least 16 hours per week) - Is in full-time employment (35 hours per week) - Level of attendance
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  • Is in suitable education
    • Addiction issues
    • Children
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Homeless
    • Living in poverty
    • Long-term health conditions
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Mental health needs
    • Older people
    • Parents
    • Victims of crime
    • Young people
    - Is in full-time education - Is in part-time education - Level of attendance - Enjoys education
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  • Improved specialist support (education and workplace)
    • Children
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Long-term health conditions
    • Mental health needs
    - Has access to quality specialist support for education system - Has access to specialist support in the workplace - Has any appropriate adaptations made in the work place
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  • Has maintained employment
    • Addiction issues
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Homeless
    • Living in poverty
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Mental health needs
    • Older people
    • Parents
    • Victims of crime
    • Young people
    - Has maintained employment for 6 months, 1 year, 2 years - Has a permanent contract - Has work-life balance - Enjoys work
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Has developed the necessary technical (hard) skills through employment, education or training (including literacy and numeracy, job search skills and job-specific qualifications)

  • Increased level of attainment
    • Children
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Homeless
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Mental health needs
    • Older people
    • Parents
    • Victims of crime
    • Young people
    - Has started a grade/degree/diploma - Has completed a grade/degree/diploma - Level of attainment
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  • Improved vocational preparation
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Homeless
    • Living in poverty
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Mental health needs
    • Parents
    • Victims of crime
    • Young people
    - Has attained a job-relevant qualification - Has attained job-relevant know-how - Has attained relevant level of experience
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  • Improved job search skills
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Homeless
    • Living in poverty
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Mental health needs
    • Parents
    • Victims of crime
    • Young people
    - Has an updated CV - Has an improved ability to identify and contact suitable job opportunities o Number of interviews attended o Number of applications sent o Number of job offers received/accepted - Has participated in job skills coaching
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  • Improved interview skills
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Homeless
    • Living in poverty
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Mental health needs
    • Older people
    • Parents
    • Victims of crime
    • Young people
    - Has developed presentation skills - Has developed communication skills - Is able to present themselves and past experiences in a positive way
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  • Improved general preparation for work
    • Children
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Homeless
    • Living in poverty
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Mental health needs
    • Parents
    • Victims of crime
    - Level of numeracy - Level of literacy - Level of IT skills - Level of problem-solving skills
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Has developed the necessary soft skills and attitude through employment, education or training (including social skills, attitude and motivation)

  • Improved knowledge on personal strengths and weaknesses
    • Addiction issues
    • Children
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Homeless
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Parents
    • Victims of crime
    • Young people
    - Has developed self-awareness skills
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  • Improved interpersonal and social skills
    • Addiction issues
    • Children
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Homeless
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Parents
    • Victims of crime
    • Young people
    - Has developed communication skills - Has developed teamwork and relationships building skills 
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  • Improved attitude and motivation
    • Addiction issues
    • Children
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Homeless
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Parents
    • Victims of crime
    • Young people
    - Has demonstrated an improvement in attendance records - Has demonstrated an improvement in time keeping - Has developed an aspiration to work - Has developed self-confidence - Is satisfied with their employment, education or training
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Communities

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High quality employment, training and education within a healthy local economy

  • Increase in the UK job supply
    • Addiction issues
    • Homeless
    • Living in poverty
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Parents
    • Young people
    - Number of jobs created - Number of jobs sustained - Unemployment and long-term unemployment rates
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  • Increase in the number of small and local businesses
    • Living in poverty
    • Young people
    - Number of companies/start-ups created - Number of small and local businesses facilitated (e.g. through provision of office space, support)
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  • Improved satisfaction and enjoyment of employment, training and education
    • Addiction issues
    • Children
    • Ex-offenders
    • Living in poverty
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Young people
    - School absence rate - Number of permanent and temporary exclusions - National survey measuring employee satisfaction - Employee absence rate
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  • Improved recruitment of people with specific needs by businesses and institutions
    • Addiction issues
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Homeless
    • Long-term health conditions
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Mental health needs
    • Parents
    - Number of businesses and institutions recruiting people with specific needs (e.g. longterm unemployed, vulnerable young people, ex-offenders, people with a disability) - Number of positions created for people with specific needs
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  • Improved quality of education
    • Children
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Mental health needs
    • Older people
    • Young people
    - National SAT rankings - National A levels, International Baccalaureate, Scottish Highers and P scale measures - School/community ratings in Ofsted inspections and surveys - School scores on numeracy, literacy, IT, problem-solving tests - National literacy rates - Percentage of the population achieving 5+ A*-C grades GCSEs and Scottish Standards including maths and English - Percentage of the population achieving 3+ A*-C grades in AS/A levels, BTEC certificate, general, tertiary, specialist certificates - Percentage of population achieving higher education degrees - National school absence rate and number of permanent and temporary exclusions 
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  • Improved quality and availability of training that fits with the needs of employers
    • Addiction issues
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Living in poverty
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Mental health needs
    • Older people
    • Parents
    • Young people
    - 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
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Strong corporate and institutional governance

  • Increase in equal employment, training and education practices
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Long-term health conditions
    • Mental health needs
    - Fair and non-discriminatory pay - Number of companies with recognized “Equal Employment” standard - Fair minimum standard and living wages - Employee benefits: statutory sick leave/maternity leave/paternity leave - Percentage of ethnic groups in education or training - Percentage of ethnic groups in employment
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  • Improved corporate and institutional governance
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Mental health needs
    - Evidence of quality and diversity on Boards - Opportunities for collective bargaining and worker’s representation - Evidence of transparency - Employee ownership - Ratio of highest to lowest paid employee - Opportunities for flexible working arrangements - Implementation of work-life balance programmes - CSR initiatives - Corporate giving
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Public policy and expenditure that supports good quality employment, training and education

  • Improvements in policy and legislation (employment, training, education)
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Long-term health conditions
    • Mental health needs
    - Policy and legislation improved to provide equality of access to employment, training and education opportunities
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  • Improvements in policy and legislation
    • Addiction issues
    • Children
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Living in poverty
    • Long-term health conditions
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Mental health needs
    • Older people
    • Parents
    - Changes in policy and legislation (e.g. promoting long term stable employment) - Changes to regulation - Level of relevant parliamentary activity (e.g. white papers published, committees formed, consultations or reviews conducted, citations made) 
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  • Improved support to prevent young people from becoming NEETs
    • Young people
    - Level and quality of services to prevent young people from becoming NEETs - Number of NEETs
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  • Improved support to help ex/offenders get back into work
    • Ex-offenders
    - Level and quality of services available to help ex/offenders secure employment, training or education - Proportion of ex/offenders who are able to secure work
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  • Improved incentives to employment
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Older people
    • Parents
    • Young people
    - Levels of minimum wage that incentivise people to leave Jobseekers Allowance and start working - Availability and use of back to work programmes - Government support for flexible job schedules and for work-life balance
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  • Improved government investment, expenditure and procurement
    • Addiction issues
    • Children
    • Disabled (physical)
    • Living in poverty
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Older people
    • Parents
    - 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)
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Strong public awareness and participation in matters relating to education and employment, and good sectoral understanding of how to address them

  • Improved stakeholder participation with decision making and with issues
    • Addiction issues
    • Living in poverty
    - Institutional and organisational engagement with stakeholders (e.g. engagement through consultation with employees or parents at schools, employee/parent participation in decision-making) - Employer engagement with job-seeking networks - Levels of stakeholder choice of services and service providers - Levels of stakeholder involvement in the provision of services and in their employment, training and education
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  • Improved sectoral understanding as to how to improve employment, training and education
    • Addiction issues
    • Older people
    • Young people
    - Research and evidence relating to the problem and interventions (e.g. studies conducted, papers published) - Innovation of new ideas, technologies and approaches - Uptake of new ideas by other organisations or government - Retirement of previous methods shown by research to be ineffective - Funding for research - Support for the sector through quality umbrella bodies
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  • Improved public awareness and engagement
    • Addiction issues
    • Disabled (learning)
    • Ex-offenders
    • Homeless
    • Living in poverty
    • Long-term health conditions
    • Long-term unemployed
    • Mental health needs
    • Older people
    • Parents
    - Availability of information about rights to employment, training and education - Availability of information about Jobseekers allowance - Level of media exposure (e.g. number of articles published on the subject in mainstream media; exposure on tv, radio; internet traffic) - Level of public awareness about the causes and consequences of the problem - Public events, rallying and campaigning - Public donations to related charities - Public volunteering on projects and initiatives related to education and employment - Change in public perception and improvements to any underlying prejudice or stigma
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