Employability & Tackling Poverty Learning Network
This website is one element of the Employability and Tackling Poverty Learning Network, which is facilitated by The Scottish Government.
The website has been designed as a practical guide for anyone who is involved in employability or tackling poverty. We have produced it in response to your views and it is intended to help you understand what employability and tackling poverty is, your role in it and how to design, deliver and measure the impact of employability and tackling poverty approaches.
The site provides a range of information, insights and practical examples which will be useful for funders of services, project/service managers as well as practitioners and frontline workers.
Interactive Maps
Information from each Local Authority, Jobcentre Plus and Health Board areas
Toolkits
A selection of case studies and tools currently used in employability.
Introduction to Universal Credit
The introduction of universal credit from October 2013 will fundamentally change the current system of benefits and tax credits. This half-day course examines how the new benefit is planned to work and the likely effect on different groups of claimants.
Presentation on Welfare Reform by One Parent Families Scotland
Would you like to know more about how the changes to the benefit and tax credit systems will affect lone parents in Scotland? If the answer is yes, then come to an information session on Universal Credit run by One Parent Families Scotland.
Whats in it for me
This event, that is aimed at employers, aims to help them with knowledge of all employment legislation, presentations on PAYE and National insurance calculations, the availability of training, funding and mentoring services and Guidance and assistance with advertising and recruitment of new employees.