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Dear Aberdeen City Council,

Please outline your spending on employment support in each of the last four years, broken down by a) the name, scope, client group (e.g. type of disability?), aims and objectives of the programmes funded, b) the number of participants in each programme in each year; c) the number of people in each programme who achieved employment in each year; d) the numbers and ratio of employability staff to participants within each programme.

Yours faithfully,

Clare Graham

Foi Enquiries, Aberdeen City Council

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Dear Ms Graham,

 

Information enquiry reference FOI-17-0029.

 

Thank you for your recent request for information, which we received on 6
January 2017.   

 

The scheduled date for our response to your request for information is on
or before 3 February 2017.

 

Please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any queries in the
meantime.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Grant Webster

Information Compliance Officer

 

 

Information Compliance Team
Communications and Promotion
Office of Chief Executive
Aberdeen City Council
Room 1-24
Town House
Broad Street
ABERDEEN AB10 1AQ

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Foi Enquiries, Aberdeen City Council

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Dear Ms Graham,

 

Thank you for your information request of 6 January 2017.  Aberdeen City
Council (ACC) has completed the necessary search for the information
requested.

 

Please outline your spending on employment support in each of the last
four years, broken down by

 

a) the name, scope, client group (e.g. type of disability?), aims and
objectives of the programmes funded,

Project SEARCH – Employment Support Programme at Aberdeen University for
People with a Learning Disability or Autism Spectrum Disorder aged 16-25.
This is a jointly funded project with Aberdeenshire which aims to give
readiness to work training following a classroom and placement based model
over a 9 month period.

 

The costs are £4,958 per placement.

 

Other services are funded which provides forms of employment support to
individuals with a Learning Disability. These serves are preventative and
fluid by their nature, as well as delivering many soft outcomes around
progression to employment.

 

The names of Mental Health employability projects are as follows:

 

- Momentum Skills Division

- Send-It Employability Services

- Solstice Nurseries

- Turning Point Aberdeen – Rosie’s Café

 

The aims of these projects are as follows:

 

- To increase opportunities for socially excluded people to achieve
employment and/or their full assessed potential by whatever means as
agreed with the individual’s identified support network and the individual
service user to be most effective for the individual and the identified
client group.

- To promote the role of work in wellbeing and recovery.

- To promote and improve social inclusion by offering support to employers
to understand mental ill health barriers to employability and reduce
stigma and discrimination in the workplace.

- To support people to access a range of graduated supports that will
assist them to achieve employment and/or their full assessed potential.

- To ensure that service users who enter employment have the employment
related support they need to sustain work.

- To work with employers to provide training and employment opportunities
for service users.

- To offer a time limited aftercare plan that, wherever possible, promotes
independent living and works through a managed reduction in support levels
and

- To work with a range of both 3^rd sector and statutory bodies to ensure
that service users are linked into relevant services.

 

The costs for the last 4 financial years are as follows:

2013/14 - £121,905.60

2014/15 - £331,495.89

2015/16 - £451,285.19

2016/17 - £350,468.11

 

b) the number of participants in each programme in each year;

Project SEARCH - Up to 8 each year, variable based on merit of applicants.
Please contact Project SEARCH at Aberdeen University for full details.

 

For Mental Health Employability projects:

2013-14 – 84

2014/15 – 122

2015/16 – 105

2016/17 - 91

 

c) the number of people in each programme who achieved employment in each
year;

Not known. This information is not held by ACC.

 

ACC is unable to provide you with information on the number of people in
each programme who achieved employment in each year as it is not held by
ACC.  In order to comply with its obligations under the terms of Section
17 of the FOISA, ACC hereby gives notice that this information is not held
by it. 

 

d) the numbers and ratio of employability staff to participants within
each programme.

Not known. This information is not held by ACC. You may wish to try
contacting Project SEARCH at Aberdeen University.

 

ACC is unable to provide you with information on the numbers and ratio of
employability staff to participants within each programme as it is not
held by ACC.  In order to comply with its obligations under the terms of
Section 17 of the FOISA, ACC hereby gives notice that this information is
not held by it. 

 

We hope this helps with your request.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Grant Webster

Information Compliance Officer

 

INFORMATION ABOUT THE HANDLING OF YOUR REQUEST

 

ACC handled your request for information in accordance with the provisions
of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. Please refer to the
attached PDF for more information about your rights under FOISA.

 

 

Information Compliance Team
Communications and Promotion
Office of Chief Executive
Aberdeen City Council
Room 1-24
Town House
Broad Street
ABERDEEN AB10 1AQ

[1][Aberdeen City Council request email]
01224 523827/523602

Tel 03000 200 292

 

*03000 numbers are free to call if you have ‘free minutes’ included in
your mobile call plan.

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[2]www.aberdeencity.gov.uk

 

IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail (including any attachment to it) is
confidential, protected by copyright and may be privileged. The
information contained in it should be used for its intended purposes only.
If you receive this email in error, notify the sender by reply email,
delete the received email and do not make use of, disclose or copy it.
Whilst we take reasonable precautions to ensure that our emails are free
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opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and they do not
necessarily constitute those of Aberdeen City Council. Unless we expressly
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attachments create, form part of or vary any contractual or unilateral
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