Scottish Government

Footnotes

1. The Key Worker model developed out of work undertaken by Glasgow City Council in the pilot stage.
2. The criteria for choosing these local authorities were reasonable, although one local authority was omitted due to its small size. It has, however, been included in Phase 2.
3. The number of new clients taken on each quarter was relatively constant after the first six months (excluding a drop around Christmas and New Year). This suggests little or no fall in demand for WFF services, although capacity constraints in the supply of WFF services appear to have limited some growth. (It should be noted that many existing clients still needed support as times went on, so pressure on resources grew even though the number of new clients may not have risen).
4. This question was asked of clients who sustained contact with WFF projects for at least one month (these accounted for 72% of all clients registered with WFF).
5. Note that no specific targets for outcomes were set for Phase 1, as, due to the slightly different nature of the programme in each area, the early estimates in local authority proposal documents were only considered as indicative and so were not gathered in a consistent manner into an overall total.
6. Note that figures for this activity are likely to be below the actual level of activity undertaken, since completion of the monthly monitoring form where these were recorded was not mandatory in Phase 1 due to a primary focus on 'hard' outcomes.
7. Improvements in employability were measured by responses to a series of 10-point Likert scales completed at the initial registration with WFF and again 6 months after registration. Three scales from the original forms were included in order to measure these improvements in employability: 'How would you rate your job skills (in relation to the type of work you are looking for or would like to do?); 'How confident are you when meeting new people?'; and, 'If you are not currently in work, how confident do you feel about starting work'. An improvement was registered if a client indicated a positive improvement on one or more of these scales.