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The contents of this report form the evidence for, and recommendations to, the Scottish Executive on what the Employability Framework should contain. Publication is not an undertaking that the Scottish Executive will implement its recommendations. The findings of this report will be addressed by the Framework document when it is published later in the year.

CONTENTS

1 Introduction
Workstream Members
Our Approach
Organisation of work

2 The size and characteristics of the workless population?
Defining the Overall Workless Group
Social and spatial factors
Other sub-groups within the workless population
Summary and Conclusions

3 Barriers to sustainable employment
Barriers to employment: - Structural; Attitudinal; Personal
Barriers to and prospects for employment - specifics for particular groups
Summary and Conclusions

4 Routes into work
The need for a longer view
Routes into work
Progression to a situation where work works
Different routes for different groups
Summary and conclusions

5 Where are we now?
Services and stages
Where are we now and where do we want to go?
Are there principles of intervention that could help inform future services?
Are there examples of good practice that highlight how these principles of intervention could be implemented?
Summary and conclusions

6 Summary and Recommendations
The Client Group
Client group recommendations.
Barriers and routes into work
Recommendations relating to reducing the barriers and widening the routes into work
Current provision and good practice
Recommendations for developing good practice
Principles of intervention
Ways forward

APPENDIX A: WORKSTREAM MEMBERS

APPENDIX B: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF DATA ON THE WORKLESS CLIENT GROUP UNDERTAKEN BY SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE ETLLD ANALYTICAL SERVICES DIVISION

APPENDIX C: Barriers to employment survey - Summary of Responses

APPENDIX D: REPORT OF WORKLESS CLIENTS FOCUS GROUP