Webinar: Whole Family Support in Practice: Relational Approaches and ‘Level Zero’ Employability
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Stacey Cuthbertson, Grant Manager at CCP, shares details of an upcoming webinar on Thursday 23rd April, which focuses on Whole Family Support and 'Level Zero' Employability. She highlights for EAN members that advice is often an integral part of support and it is anticipated that there will be discussion on this during the session, which may be of interest to network members.
Whole Family Support in Practice: Relational Approaches and ‘Level Zero’ Employability
Date: Thursday 23 April, 11:00 -12:30
Location: Microsoft Teams
Registration: Webinar Registration
This is a free event
This webinar examines the role of whole family support within employability systems and how it is being delivered to support families experiencing poverty.
The session will introduce a whole family employability service and its local context, and situate this within the current Scottish policy landscape, including the shift towards whole family support reflected in the latest Child Poverty Delivery Plan, alongside Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC), No One Left Behind, and the Parental Employability Support Fund.
Drawing on two separate but related research studies conducted within the same whole family employability service, alongside wider scoping work with staff across the region, the session will explore how whole family support is being implemented in practice. This includes the role of employability in improving opportunities for parents and young people.
The webinar will be framed through Capability Theory and Relational Welfare to explore how families experience support, including the role of trauma, cumulative stress and mental load in shaping what engagement and progression actually look like in practice.
The webinar will examine the gap between what meaningful change looks like to families and what is currently captured by formal outcome and commissioning frameworks, a persistent tension with significant implications for how services are funded and evaluated.
It will consider how level zero (early-stage pre-employability) progress is understood and measured, what this means for service design and evaluation, and how a relational, whole-family approach may support not only individual progression but longer-term and intergenerational change, including raising aspirations and enabling the next generation to engage more fully with education and opportunity.
Chair: Dr Jen Remnant
Jen is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde has expertise in inclusive employment and interest in employability and labour market policy. Her work focuses on inclusive labour markets and improving outcomes for individuals facing barriers to employment, with a strong track record in applied research and collaboration with policy and practice.
Presenters
Rose Watson
Rose is a third year PhD researcher at the University of Strathclyde, studying Networks of Change: Staff and family experiences of an intensive whole family support employability service in Scotland. She has over 15 years of experience working on research, with a speciality in working with sensitive topics and communities facing structural disadvantage.
Stacey Cuthbertson
Stacey is a Grant Manager working across regional employability and anti-poverty programmes. She has completed a Master of Research at the University of Strathclyde, exploring whole family approaches and pathways out of poverty, grounded in her experience of commissioning and overseeing delivery within complex systems.
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