Jobs Filled

The final count for the number of jobs filled this year is 468, (74 jobs above the annual target). The level of performance in this area is particularly noteworthy given that the target for jobs filled this year was set at 14% above last year’s target. As would be expected the types of jobs being filled are in areas where the labour market is buoyant such as construction, finance, administration, care and personal services.

ILM Jobs Filled

At 58 jobs the ILM jobs filled is just 0.4% ahead of the annual target. The ILM jobs are counted separately from CEDA’s mainstream jobs because they are subsidised. The main difference between mainstream jobs and ILM jobs being that the ILM jobs offer unemployed individuals with limited work experience the opportunity to gain vocational qualifications in a specific occupational area whilst getting the rate for the job. In other words ILM work programmes provide individuals with the skills and experience that allow them to compete for mainstream opportunities in the job market. To date 32 people have participated in the ILM Careers in Housing Programme, 14 in Childcare and 12 in the Community Janitors programmes.

Business Start Ups

This year we are delighted to report a record number of business start ups for CEDA. The number of business start ups was 57, (50% above target). Of the 57 business that started, 32 were from Castlemilk and 1 business with no Castlemilk connection located in Castlemilk. The nature of the business start ups are diverse and are outlined in detail in the Chief Executives report. The Gross new sales for new starts 05/06, based on the financial projections in their business plans is £1,028,000, a proportion of which will make a significant contribution to the economy of Castlemilk.

Training Places

The number of training places filled was 655, (34% below target). Underperformance in this measure is directly attributable to a number of factors which have impacted on performance. The level of service delivery of Personal Development Programmes was significantly scaled down owing to a member of staff being on long term sick leave, (6 months). Secondly in the annual training forecast we anticipated delivering 120 training places under work force development, however were unable to secure funding from Scottish Enterprise to deliver on this target. In addition to this, we took a decision to re classify CEDA’s Induction programme which had previously been counted under training places filled as we felt it was more appropriate to record this as an awareness raising intervention rather than training.

Registrations

Throughout the year performance in this measure has been high giving a total of 1022 registrations for the year bringing performance 14% above target. Of the 1022 people that registered, 702 were new registrations and 320 were re-registrations. It is anticipated that registrations will steadily increase as CEDA raises the level of planned outreach activity in local Housing Associations, Job centre Plus, Langside College and selected venues across the Langside and Linn wards.

Active Caseload

At the time of writing this report the active caseload stood at 556. Of the 556 people on the caseload, 56% are unemployed (313), and 44% are employed (243).

The employed caseload continues to be monitored for a period of up to 26 weeks under CEDA’s monitoring and aftercare programme.

The unemployed caseload is analysed regularly to determine the type of services and levels of interventions that are required and the main occupational areas of interest of the client group.

The benefit of carrying out this type of analysis is that it provides CEDA’s Learning and Employability and Business Services Teams with the information they require to target under-represented groups, e.g. over 50’s, and tailor services to the priority needs of our clients.

The main points to note in the Unemployed Caseload Profile of 313 individuals are as follows:

• 56% are male, 44% are female.
• 15% are young people 85% adults
• 30% are short term unemployed, 70% are long term unemployed.
• 61% are on benefit, 39% are not on benefit.
• 48%, 23% and 19% reside in the wards of Glenwood, Carmunnock and Castlemilk respectively.

Overall the company’s performance this year has been excellent. The job outcomes for this year 2005/2006 show an increase of 26% in performance on the last operational year 2004/2005, increase; this equates to 108 additional jobs. Likewise the number of business start ups is 50% up on last year’s figures giving an additional 19 start ups this year.
In conclusion this report sets out what the company has achieved in terms of meeting the quantitative targets in the Operational Plan and provides the Board with a measure of how well the company is doing. The report also enables CEDA not only to look back, to see how performance compares to previous years, but also to look forward and to set targets which will ensure that CEDA is always striving to improve performance.