Questions and answers on the Employability Pipeline and Positive Futures

The Perth & Kinross Employability Pipeline is a multi-service, multi-provider programme of support for eligible jobless citizens of Perth & Kinross, providing a 5-stage pathway of support from worklessness to sustainable employment. Providers and contractors work together to move local people towards and into sustainable employment. The provision will include barrier removal, sector-based skills academies, wage incentives, training, work placements, employer engagement, job outcomes and in-work support and aftercare.

Positive Futures! is a multi-service, multi-provider programme of support for eligible citizens of Perth & Kinross. The Positive Futures! project will focus on providing support, advice and assistance on finances, housing, benefits, health, employment and education. It will focus on lone parent and workless households with children, in five “Areas of deprivation” Council wards throughout Perth & Kinross: Perth City North, Perth City Centre, Blairgowrie and the Glens, Strathmore and Highland.

Subject to eligibility criteria, you can register with an Employability provider, who will offer you useful support, whether it’s access to new skills, assist with job search and apply, practising interview techniques, helping with your CV.  
What are the barriers to work / criteria for getting support? 
View a list of Employability Providers 
 

Many of the Employability Pipeline Providers can support with employability skills and work with other agencies, who can provide accredited or vocational training and can also provide information on volunteering opportunities. 

Positive Futures! is suitable for people for all ages and will help beneficiaries to overcome barriers such as lack of confidence with money, poor money management and budgeting skills, understanding saving and borrowing, money skills for employment, money skills for self-employment, dealing effectively with debt. The Positive Futures providers also offer free, confidential and impartial welfare rights advice and representation, benefits advice and more.

Subject to eligibility criteria, you can register with a Positive Futures provider, who will offer you confidential, free and impartial advice and information on welfare benefits and other help that may be available to you, useful support including benefit checks, back to work calculations, debt advice, making the most of your income, money workshops and outreach services.
What are the barriers to work / criteria for getting financial help?
View a list of Financial Help Providers
 

There is no need to be referred to any of the Providers; you can contact them directly.
View list of Employability providers
View list of Financial help providers
 

The European Social Fund (ESF) is the European Union's main financial instrument for supporting employment in the member states of the European Union as well as promoting economic and social cohesion.

Access to support is subject to eligibility criteria:

• Employability Pipeline – You must have multiple barriers to employment, including long-term unemployed, to be eligible for the ESF Employability Pipeline. 

What are the possible barriers to work?

• Positive Futures – You must live within low-income, workless and/or lone-parent households), to be eligible for Positive Futures. 

Most of the providers offer an outreach or drop-in service in particular geographical areas, for an initial informal chat, so there is no need to make an appointment. However, depending on the nature of the enquiry, it is advisable to contact the provider to find out more about locations and days and times they are available. Contact details can be found  in the Employability Directory and the Financial Help Directory.

No.

All advice and support is strictly confidential and all information is covered by the Data Protection Act 1998.

Yes all advice and support is free. 

Yes, as long as the individual meets the eligibility criteria anyone can access the same service. 

You can contact any of the providers online initially, but then your chosen provider would have a face-to-face chat with you in order to get you registered, check your eligibility, sign any forms, etc.

Yes