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Miranda McIntosh

Increasing participation in learning - The role of public employment services within the New Skills And Jobs Agenda 8 March 2011. Miranda McIntosh Policy Co-ordinator DG EMPL Unit C/2 – New Skills for New Jobs, Adaptation to Change, CSR and EGF. Some of the challenges.

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Miranda McIntosh

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  1. Increasing participation in learning - The role of public employment services within the New Skills And Jobs Agenda8 March 2011 Miranda McIntosh Policy Co-ordinator DG EMPL Unit C/2 – New Skills for New Jobs, Adaptation to Change, CSR and EGF

  2. Some of the challenges • 23 million Europeans still jobless • The unemployment rate looks to remain the same well into 2011 • Average duration of unemployment is rising • Specific groups are effected (youth, migrants, workers on temporary contracts) • Due to demographic change our workforce is about to shrink

  3. Some of the challenges • We are faced with a persistent skills gap: • Over 80 million adults hampered by low levels of basic skills • Jobs becoming more knowledge- and skills-intensive: by 2020 35% of all jobs will require high-level qualifications • Member States are faced with severe budget constraints – tough choices need to be made

  4. EUROPE 2020 Architecture 3 Priorities Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive growth 5 Targets 7 Flagships • Innovation Union  • Youth on the move • A digital agenda for Europe • Resource efficient Europe  • An industrial policy for the globalisation • An agenda for new skills and jobs • European platform against poverty • 75 % employment rate • 3% GDP investment in R&D • ‘20/20/20’ climate/energy targets • < 10% ESL; 40% tertiary degree • 20 million less people at risk of poverty

  5. New Skills and Jobs Agenda:4 key areas of focus • Better functioning of EU labour markets • Right skills for right jobs • Improving the quality of work and working conditions • Creating jobs

  6. Skills at the heart of the EUROPE 2020 Strategy • Commission Communication: New Skills for New Jobs: anticipating and matching labour market and skills needs December 2008 • Expert group report – New Skills for New Jobs Action Now! February 2010 • Council Conclusions March 2009 and June 2010 • Europe 2020 strategy – New Skills And Jobs Agenda March 2010 • = PES are a central player in the strategy

  7. Role of Public Employment Services (PES) • A pivotal role in job matching by delivering employment services to jobseekers and employers • A role that is continuously adapting to rapidly changing labour markets • Dual role: to cater for those who have been out of the labour market the longest whilst keeping the newly unemployed as close as possible to the labour market

  8. Key figures for Labour Market Policies • In 2008 1.6% of GDP was spent on LMP • 60% on supports (financial assistance) • 28% on measures (training/job take-up) • 12% on services (job search) • Over the period 2008-10, many Member States stepped up their expenditure on labour market interventions • In some countries, employment services raised their staffing levels by 10% or more to cope with rising numbers of unemployed

  9. Key activities of the PES • Employment guidance and job search or targeted assistance for particular groups • Facilitators of targeted training and work experience • Providers of labour market information • Some PES offer career guidance for young or adults • For most PES cooperation with other guidance and training providers is crucial

  10. Areas of development • Stronger focus on delivery of lifelong learning • Increase the capacity for analysis and utilisation of information on skills needs • Innovate in types of LM information • Further targeted support • Skills up-grading of older workers affected by restructuring • Re-skilling of parents returning to work • Blue collar-workers to ‘green’ collar jobs • Review of working methods • closer partnership-based approaches, staff training

  11. Good practice examples • PES Germany developed "Beratungskonzept" - concept for guidance and counselling and has also started a training programme for all employment advisers. More than 14.000 employment advisors will have a basic training to improve face-to-face services for jobseekers. • PES Flanders, Belgium “Lifelong guidance for jobseekers’ project” – working with employed people focussing on their career and long-term perspective with an aim to make pathway guidance evolve more towards career-orientated guidance

  12. Action at EU level • HoPES NSNJ working group • “PES to PES” - Peer learning • PARES – PARtnership between Employment Services • Lifelong learning package – revisiting the principles to boost supply and take-up • European Skills, Competences and Occupations classification (ESCO) – developing a common language • European Social Fund

  13. Further information: http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?langId=en&catId=958

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