Glossary
An A-Z glossary of terms, abbreviations and acronyms.
CLG
Communities and Local Government. Working to create thriving, sustainable, vibrant communities that improve everyone’s quality of life. To achieve this they are:
- Building better homes – and reducing homelessness.
- Improving local public services.
- Regenerating areas to create more jobs.
- Working to produce a sustainable environment.
- Tackling anti-social behaviour and extremism.
Connexions
Connexions targets young people 13-19, living in England seeking advice and guidance. It also provides support up to the age of 25 for young people who have learning difficulties or disabilities (or both).
Construction Strategy
The Construction Sector Training and Employment Strategy (referred to as the Construction Strategy’) details the GNESB commitment to developing the construction sector through skills training and employer engagement.
Community and Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy
Community and Neighbourhood Renewal Strategies are produced by LSP’s in areas in receipt of NRF. These strategies provide the strategic aims and targets for tacking deprivation. And other key areas identified by the partnership.
DAF
Deprived Area Fund.
DIUS
Department for Universities Innovation and Skills.
emda
East Midlands Development Agency.
ESB
Employment and Skills Board.
ESF
The European Social Fund was set up to improve employment opportunities in the European Union and so help raise standards of living. It aims to help people fulfil their potential by giving them better skills and better job prospects.
ESP
The Employment Skills and Employability Partnership was created in 2005 to meet the challenges set out in the Government’s National Skills Strategy. The aim is to deliver greater impact and added value to employers and individuals, thereby increasing the competitiveness of the East Midlands region.
ESA
The Employment and Support Allowance is a new benefit replacing Income Support (paid on incapacity grounds) and Incapacity Benefit. It is a new way of helping people with an illness or disability move into work, rather than stay on benefits. Employment and Support Allowance was introduced in October 2008. The allowance encompasses personalised support and financial help for customers who are not working due to an illness or disability; including new medical assessments which examine what the can do, rather than what they can’t.
FSB
Federation of Small Businesses.
GOEM
Government Office East Midlands.
GNP
Greater Nottingham Partnership.
IAG
Information Advice and Guidance.
IAPT
The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme has one principal aim, to support Primary Care Trusts in implementing National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines for people suffering from depression and anxiety disorders.
IB
Incapacity Benefit.
IB Pilot
Individual Benefit Pilot Programme. An Individual Budget is designed to provide individuals who currently receive services greater choice and control over their support arrangements. The government is committed to piloting individual budgets with a view to rolling them out nationally should they prove successful. The individual budgets pilot project is a cross government initiative led by the Department of Health working closely with the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department of Communities and Local Government.
JCP
Jobcentre Plus.
ISLP
Income Support Lone Parents.
LAA
Local Area Agreements are a new central government initiative to encourage greater partnership working and delivery at a local level. Both Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire have an LAA.
LFS
The Labour Force Survey is a quarterly sample survey of households living at private addresses in Great Britain. Its purpose is to provide information on the UK labour market that can then be used to develop, manage, evaluate and report on labour market policies.
Leitch Review of Skills
On 5 December 2006, the day before the 2006 Pre-Budget Report, Lord Sandy Letch published his final report in to UK Skills: Prosperity for all in the global economy -world class skills.
Lord Leitch was commissioned by the Chancellor in 2004 with a remit to “identify the UK’s optimal skills mix in 2020 to maximise economic growth, productivity and social justice, and to consider the policy implications of achieving the level of change required.”
The Chancellor also asked Lord Leitch to consider how to better integrate employment and skills services at a local level.
In his final report, Leitch recommends that the UK should aim to be a world leader on skills by 2020, in the upper quartile of OECD countries. Lord Leitch also makes a number of recommendations for how that vision should be delivered.
LSC
The Learning and Skills Council exists to make England better skilled and more competitive. They have a single goal: to improve the skills of England’s young people and adults to ensure we have a workforce of world-class standard.
LDF
Following changes to the planning system, all local planning authorities are now required to prepare a Local Development Framework. This will contain all the planning policies and proposals for the City, against which decisions on planning applications will be made.
LPSA
Local Public Service Agreements were designed as voluntary agreements between upper-tier local authorities and government. The overall aim of LPSAs was to improve the delivery of local public services by focusing on targeted outcomes with support from Government. These agreements allowed local authorities and their partners to tackle the priorities for improvement locally and provide a renewed focus on improving final outcomes for local people.
LSP
Local Strategic Partnerships are non-statutory, multi agency partnerships, which match local authority boundaries. LSPs bring together at a local level the different parts of the public, private, community and voluntary sectors; allowing different initiatives and services to support one another so that they can work together more effectively.
MAA
Multi Area Agreements are currently being implemented to enable local governments to work across boundaries and deliver solutions that cover entire commuter routes, housing and employment markets. Nottingham is not part of this first round of agreements.
MTC
Making the Connection is a new long -term partnership programme which aims to support local people into sustainable jobs. The programme has already attracted a high level of support from key partners across the city aiming to better connect our learning, skills and employability services.
NCCESB
Nottinghamshire: City & County Employment and Skills Board.
NI
These are new national indicators and means of measuring national priorities. There are 198 indicators in total.
- 150 – Adults in contact with secondary mental health services in employment.
- 152 – Working Age People in out of work benefit.
- 153 – Working age people claiming out of work benefits in the worst performing neighbourhoods.
- 173 – People falling out of work and onto incapacity benefits
- 174 – Skills gaps in the current workforce reported by employers
NI151 Stretch Target
The LAA target indicator for the overall employment rate.
NOMIS
NOMIS is a service provided by the Office for National Statistics, ONS, to give you free access to the most detailed and up-to-date UK labour market statistics from official sources.
NRF
Neighbourhood Renewal Fund is a form of Local Government finance in England, launched by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in July 2000. NRF is allocated to multi-agency Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) in the 88 Local Authority areas judged to be the most deprived based on the 2000 Indices of Multiple Deprivation. It is intended to be spent on the social regeneration of the areas to which it has been awarded, and on interventions designed to reduce the relative deprivations in those areas (such as health inequalities, educational underachievement and high crime rates). The NRF is now replaced by WNF
SFA
Skills Funding Agency – replaces Learning and Skills Council from 2010.
SSP
Bringing together businesses, public sector, voluntary and community groups, Sub-Regional Strategic Partnerships make sure the Regional Economic Strategy is delivered in local communities throughout the region.
Train to Gain
Train to gain is an organisation which helps business train their staff and create a more skilled workforce.
UKCES
The UK Commission for Employment and Skills aims to raise UK prosperity and opportunity by improving employment and skills. Its ambition is to benefit employers, individuals and government by advising how improved employment and skills systems can help the UK become a world-class leader in productivity, in employment and in having a fair and inclusive society.
WNF
The Working Neighbourhood Fund is a new dedicated fund for local councils and communities to develop more concentrated, concerted, community-led approaches to getting people in the most deprived areas of England back.
Work Foundation
The Work Foundation is an independent research consultancy advising organisations and policymakers about the changing world of work and corporate performance. They are dedicated to Good Work: aim to improve the quality of working life and increase the effectiveness of organisations. They do this through ideas and evidence, through advice, and through advocacy and events
VCS
Voluntary and Community Sector.