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What is Joined Up For Jobs?
Joined Up For Jobs is the jobs strategy for Edinburgh. It sets out how a partnership of key agencies will help more people into employment. By sharing ideas and resources among the partners, we will be more effective in reaching our goal of raising the employment rate. By working together and targeting programmes where need is greatest, we aim to close employment gaps between the most deprived areas and the city average.
The key partners in Joined Up For Jobs are:
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 North Edinburgh Childcare
Developed in response to an identified need for affordable, flexible childcare in North Edinburgh that would enable local parents and carers to access increased opportunities for work, training or education.
A group of local women campaigned over a number of years for the creation of a custom built (state of the art) childcare facility. In the Spring of 1997, the dream became a reality.
Since that time, our organisation has gone from strength to strength and grown into the multi-stranded operation that we are today. Our service has separate divisions offering pre-school care in the centre, out of school care for 180 children in 6 local primary schools, crèche services throughout the local area as well as city-wide.
We are also very proud of our training service that offers a range of accredited and non accredited training, again working locally and throughout the city.
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 Working for Families
is a Scottish Executive funded initiative which aims to tackle poverty and worklessness by ensuring that childcare is not a barrier for parents on low income and parents with other stresses in the household.
Edinburgh is one of the Phase 2 local authorities in receipt of Working for Families funding for 2006/08.
Working for Families aims to support the most disadvantaged parents in the city and in particular to support:
- Parents/carers on low income - eligible for maximum Child Tax Credit or Working Families Tax Credits
- parents with other stresses in the household, e.g. disability, mental health issues, drug and alcohol problems
- lone parents who need support pre New Deal.
WFF can support parents who are in employment and want to sustain their employment or change jobs, improve hours or earnings.
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