Presentation made during the last 11th Annual Meeting of the OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Development where local and national leaders, policy makers and practitioners discussed how inclusive growth can be built from the ground up.

1. More Jobs, Better Jobs Partnership
OECD Workshop: tools to help people move out of poor
quality employment
26th June 2015
Josh Stott

2. Current Programme
Cities, Growth and Poverty Overview

3. OECD workshop

4. Pre-
employment
Employment
entry
Staying in
work
In-work
progression
Progression
Retention
Employmententry
Pre-employment
Pathway
Evidence base
Reviewing the evidence

5. Project 1: In work progression
Aim: Develop innovative employment and skills policies to be applied in
the Leeds City Region focussed on in work progression
Principle
Co-design/co-production
embedded across all
stages
Method/approach
 Step 1 - Lit review
 Step 2 - Project scoping
 Step 3 - Stakeholder engagement
 Step 4 - Local analysis
 Step 5 - Ideas generation
 Step 6 - Practitioner workshops
 Step 7 - Policy development

6. An integrated and targeted approach
Individuals
• External pathways
• Transferable skills
• Groups/types of workers
• Accessibility/support services
• Pre-employment and/or in work
Employers
• Internal pathways
• Sectors - business models
• Management practices
• Job design
• Motivation – skills, productivity
Implementation
• Choices/trade offs
• Local intelligence/local discretion
• Integrate with existing infrastructure
• Funding – availability/parameters
• Pilot – groups; occupations/sectors

7. An emerging package
Strand Rationale/overview
1. Information,
advice and guidance
• National Careers Service - only 14% clients in work
• Raising aspirations, training decisions, practical support
• Accessing services and employer relationships
2. In work
progression service
• Employed learners = 17% skills starts across LCR
• Current ESF provision partial – LEP priority sectors
• Connection to business growth support services
3. Part time workers • Limited scope for progression
• Job design and access to training
• Likely care sector focus
4. Financial
incentives
• R&D tax credit type approach to support progression
• Local level - Business rate discounts
• Signal to local business community

8. Project 2: Anchor Institutions
Cities, Growth and Poverty Overview
• …the biggest spenders and employers with an inherent
stake in a place
Leeds City Council York NHS Trust Wakefield District Housing
Wakefield District Council
North Leeds Clinical
Commissioning Group Leeds Beckett University
Kirklees Council
Leeds City College Voluntary Action Leeds
City of York Council Bradford College First Bus

9. Low Pay Charter
• Low paid workers group - ‘No Silver Bullet’: Doing more to
support low paid workers (March 2015)
• Commits six local authorities to:
 paying Living Wage
 ‘progression proof’ all HR policies
 focus on those who manage low skilled workers
 apply social value to procurement and commissioning
• Local leadership – leading by doing