Feasibility of the West London Working Passport

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Introduction

West London Working brings together the partners responsible for employment and skills to tackle the high and persistent number of West London residents not in employment. It is one of 15 City Strategy Pathfinders launched by the Department for Work and Pensions in April 2007. The Pathfinders cover cities across Britain, testing how best to build a partnership of government agencies, local government and the private and voluntary sectors to help more jobless people to find and progress in work. Pathfinder partnerships aim to join up employment and skills provision and increase its effectiveness. In return, DWP has provided dedicated funding, and the opportunity for Pathfinders to flex national policies according to local needs.

The Passport

The West London Working Passport is one of 4 core work packages identified in our business plan. Its vision is a Management Information tool that will:

  • Enable residents skills and guidance history to be available to referral agents, providers and funders (e.g. case history)
  • Enable referral agents and providers to access the ongoing case history of residents that they have supported/are supporting to see details of future interventions taken and their destination
  • Provide longitudinal data to identify the most successful routes to work; to understand who accesses services, and the degree of repeat service users.

The role

We are seeking an organisation or partnership with proven experience in consultation as well as significant track-record in management information systems to investigate the feasibility of a West London Management Information and Tracking Solution for organisations working in employment and skills in West London. It would be of benefit if the organisation also has an understanding of regional and national policy context around employment and skills.

We require the following:

Consultation with providers / funders to gauge interest in using such a system and define how it would add value.

Case-study analysis of organisations that currently use shared systems.

Options and cost / benefit for the development of a solution, either an online system that simply collates existing MI or a real-time solution or another option that we have not considered.

The development of technical specification for the preferred solution and some best practice guidelines for those that are considering developing a shared tracking solution.

Mapping of typical routes to work of West London Working priority groups.

How to apply

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