Making sure everyone in Argyll and Bute has a fair chance of employment regardless of age, background, ethnicity, gender or disability is central to the work of the Argyll and Bute Employability Partnership.
The partnership is a group of organisations working together chaired by Argyll and Bute Council. The group delivers a range of employability initiatives that support the Scottish Government’s No One Left Behind policy.
The Community Learning and Development Strategic Partnership focuses on empowering individuals and communities to lead, fulfilling and happy lives through continuous learning, cooperative problem solving and removing any barriers to engagement and health and wellbeing.
The Argyll and Bute Employability Partnership and the Community Learning and Development Strategic Partnership work together and recently launched a joint competition with local secondary schools to design new logos for each partnership.
Kaja Patudj and Farrah McCallum from Tarbert Academy won the competition. The judges praised their designs, which captured the sense of community, working together and collaboration.
Councillor Liz McCabe, Policy Lead for Islands and Business Development:
“Congratulations to Kaja and Farrah for their fantastic designs. It’s a great achievement and highlights to employers the creativity and critical thinking skills of our future workforce.
We understand there may be a number of barriers to people improving their lives through continuous learning and finding employment. Through these partnerships, we are committed to supporting people realise opportunities through ensuring that all individuals are treated with respect, dignity, fairness and equality.”
Find out more about the range of help available to get back into work https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/helping-people-work
You can contact the council’s Employability Team to register your interest or find out more by calling 01586 555990 or email employability@argyll-bute.gov.uk