Partnership Action for Continuing Employment (PACE) – Supporting Individuals out of Redundancy into Employment

As an amendment to motion S4M-12154 in the name of Fergus Ewing (Partnership Action for Continuing Employment (PACE) - Supporting Individuals out of Redundancy into Employment), leave out from “considers” to end and insert "recognises that PACE was originally created with a remit to ensure the early identification of company or sector difficulties, to undertake partnership working with companies in order to mitigate difficulty and, only where redundancies are inevitable, get people back into jobs as quickly as possible; recognises that more needs to be done to support companies, sectors and regions faced with sudden economic shocks and difficulties to avoid or reduce the number of job losses; agrees that the work of PACE should be reviewed in order to identify where more pro-active interventions can be made at an earlier stage, and calls for the establishment of a resilience fund to assist with these efforts with an initial budget of £10 million in 2015-16.”