Employability Strategy in Edinburgh

The Local Employability Partnership (LEP) brings together partners to share information about their organisations and to discuss future changes and initiatives. This ensures a strategic approach to planning, implementation and delivery, and identifies opportunities for joint working and helps tackle inequality and poverty and improve job outcomes and increase skills.

  The LEP comprises:

• Chief Executive Officer, Capital City Partnership
• Head of Business and Inclusive Growth, City of Edinburgh Council
• Head of Policy and Innovation, Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce
• District Manager East and South East Scotland, Department of Work and Pensions
• Vice Principal, Edinburgh College
• Employability Lead, NHS Lothian
• Regional Manager, Skills Development Scotland
• Vice Principal Careers Service, University of Edinburgh
• Chief Executive Third Sector Interface EVOC

Contact Chief Executive Officer Rona Hunter: rona.hunter@capitalcitypartnership.org.

The Local Employability Partnership oversees the Joined Up for Jobs and Joined Up for Business, work-streams and directly links to the Local Outcome Improvement Plans under the Edinburgh Partnership for commissioning of funds such as No One Left Behind. 

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.  

CCP 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 Business gives businesses a "no wrong door" approach and offers a bespoke, free recruitment and training service, as well as a business growth support service for SMEs. We will help businesses identify funding initiatives that can support their recruitment, training and business growth needs.  We also support the Fort Kinnaird Recruitment Skills Centre, and the new St James Quarter development through the FUSE skill centre.