CaPital city partnership
Joined Up for Business supports employers as part of Edinburgh's Job Strategy and is coordinated by the Employer Relationship team within Capital City Partnership.
Capital City Partnership is the anchor delivery body for Edinburgh’s employability strategy, working together to tackle inequality and poverty.
Our core values are partnership, excellence, integrity and innovation.
Our key tasks are to advise, support and develop the city’s Jobs Strategy and to contract, performance manage and improve outcomes from funded employability services.
We are also a key stakeholder and delivery partner in the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal, supporting the Integrated Regional Employability and Skills (IRES) programme.
Joined Up for Business
Joined Up for Business gives businesses a "no wrong door" approach and offers a bespoke, free recruitment and training service, as well as business growth & advice support, helping businesses identify funding initiatives that can support their recruitment, training and business growth needs. In addition they support with Community Benefits from inward investment in the city.
Joined Up for Business also supports the Recruitment & Skills Hubs in Edinburgh which include MacMillan Skills Hub, Fort Kinnaird Recruitment Skills Centre, and FUSE at St James Quarter and the city centre Business Improvement District (BID).
Joined Up for JOBS
Joined Up for Jobs sets out the framework for a partnership of key agencies and frontline services to work together to help more people into employment, improve skills and reduce poverty through our Strategic Skills Pipeline and the new Enhanced Regional Skills Pipeline.
Capital City Partnership contract manages most of the services on offer, including contract management of the emerging No One Left Behind funded provision and the wider Edinburgh and South East Scotland frameworks.
Support is given through website resources, a client management information system, quarterly provider forums, contract management, partnership leverage opportunities, capacity building and co-production and co-design.
Joined Up for families
Joined Up for Families recognises that employability and supporting those on low incomes is at the heart of Edinburgh’s Child Poverty response. The strategy focuses on the priority family groups with the aim of ensuring a ‘no wrong door’ approach to flexible support and subsidised childcare.
Capital City Partnership contract manages a range of services, including: The Intensive Family Support Service, Subsidised Childcare for Working Parents, Parental Employability Support fund, the Whole Family Equality Project and Maximise!
Projects are family-centered and holistic and incorporate advice and family support alongside help to gain and sustain work, education, and training.