Engage with the Get GM Working Plan

As part of the government’s commitments in the Get Britain Working White Paper, local areas are required to develop a local Get Britain Working Plan to detail how they will take a whole system approach to tackling labour market participation (employment, unemployment and economic inactivity) and progression at work (earnings and job quality) to achieve an 80% employment rate (GM employment rate is currently 70.9%) and grow the economy.

The purpose of the plan is for it to be used by all system partners including GMCA, LAs, NHS, DWP, VCFSE and other stakeholders to: develop shared understanding of issues, manage and align current provision, identify collective action, support better integration of services and set longer term direction and strategy for future investments targeting labour market challenges.

As this is a system-wide plan, input from our key stakeholders is vital in both developing the plan and ensuring system-wide buy-in to deliver against the plan.

The following survey has been created to capture insights from our partners and stakeholders. It will close on Friday 30th May: https://www.gmconsult.org/work-and-skills/a410154b

Additional engagement activity is being carried out with GM residents.

Please see the briefing note about the Get GM Working plan, a slide deck to support the engagement survey and a data pack which provides further insights the GM labour market.

If you want a conversation around this, please contact John Hannen at John.Hannen@vsnw.org.uk