The City of Edinburgh Council provide a city-wide employability service to support citizens into employment and training. This service is based in hubs across the city and helps people to find work, gain skills for work, prepare for work and to progress once they are in work.

The Council want to get feedback on what our citizens want and need for a future employability service so we would really appreciate you taking five minutes to complete this survey.

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* 1. Have you used an employability service before? If so, do you know the name of the service(s) and what help you received?
(for example: support to find work, support to start work, support in work, CVs, advice and guidance)

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* 2. What help do you require with employability?
(for example: support to find work, support to start work, support in work, CVs, advice and guidance)

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* 3. What would you say are the things that make it difficult to find a job or get a better job?
(for example: need more skills, experience, confidence, knowledge of how to do it, benefits issues, caring commitments, housing issues, criminal record etc)

If you have children, please also answer the following questions:
The City of Edinburgh Council currently give money to four childcare organisations so they can provide lower cost childcare to working parents on low incomes. These are based in North Edinburgh, Wester Hailes, Craigmillar and South Edinburgh.

The Council is now seeking feedback from parents to help shape a future service to begin in April 2019. We would appreciate you taking the time to complete this survey which will help shape this future service.

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* 4. What would a perfect childcare service look like?
(Hours? Location? Cost?)

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* 5. Who should be eligible to receive a lower cost place as part of this subsidised service?
(For example, claiming certain benefits or household income)

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* 6. Do you know that – depending on how much you earn - you can claim Tax Credit to help pay for up to 70% of childcare if you are working?

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* 7. What other services would be useful for you to access within your childcare setting 
(for example: services based within your nursery or after school club for you to speak to when you pick up your children)

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* 8. Do you have any other comments on childcare?

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