About Us: Aberdeenshire Employability Group

	Aberdeenshire Employability Group A multi-agency Aberdeenshire Employability Group has been set up under the asupices of the Community Planning Partnership to implement an Employabilty Strategy for Aberdeenshire. Purpose The purpose of the Aberdeenshire Employability Strategy Group is to: Draw together Employment Development Officers, Job Centre Plus, Condition Management Programme, Aberdeen City and Shire Economic Forum, Healthy Working Lives, Department of Work & Pensions, Scottish Prison Service, vocational rehabilitation professionals, Careers Scotland and tertiary education Collaboratively develop inter-connected programmes to help service users find a pathway out of treatment and into ongoing education, training or employment. A record of the work of the Aberdeenshire Employability Strategy Group can be found on the Aberdeenshire Community Planning Partnership website. Leadership The Aberdeenshire Employability Group is chaired by: Wendy MacDonald District External Relations Manager (Grampian, Orkney, Shetland) HICC&G 21-23 Trinity Road Elgin IV30 1RJ 01343 528020/ 07920 296405 wendy.macdonald@jobcentreplus.gsi.gov.uk

Aberdeenshire Employability Group