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I wish to provide Members with an update on the performance of the Jobs Growth Wales programme.


2013 was a stellar year for Jobs Growth Wales and 2014 continues in the same vein, with figures for the programme exceeding our expectations. Our latest figures show that Jobs Growth Wales, the Welsh Government’s flagship youth employment programme, has broken through the 10,000 milestone in the number of jobs created and approved. The latest performance information published on 23 January 2014 shows that Jobs Growth Wales, which is part funded by the European Social Fund, has so far created 10,594 job opportunities, with 8,354 young people filling these jobs. The remainder of the job opportunities are currently going through the recruitment process.


In the programme’s largest strand, the private sector strand, 80 per cent of young people have progressed into sustained employment, an apprenticeship or further learning upon completion of their six month opportunity. This compares to a target of 70 per cent progression.


Success rates for the programme’s Third Sector and Graduate strands have also been maintained at similar levels as the statistics published in December.  Data emerging from the Graduate strand is demonstrating an exceptional rate of progression with just 1% of young people taking part becoming unemployed after completion of their six month job opportunity.


A breakdown of the figures shows that the self\-employment strand of the programme, the young entrepreneurs bursary, has already helped to create 200 new businesses since it began in April 2012\. As a Government, we want to instil a culture of entrepreneurship in Wales so I am delighted that Jobs Growth Wales has helped 200 young people to start up their own business. This is well ahead of target with the number of applications for the young entrepreneurs bursary continuing to rise.


 


For Jobs Growth Wales as a whole, the proportion of young people who have progressed into employment as apprentices after completing their JGW opportunity has reached 25% \- again, exceeding all expectations. Joining up our training and employability programmes is helping to create a progression path into skilled employment for young people. A success rate this high would be the envy of most governments across Europe.


This is a programme that is making a real, tangible difference to young people’s lives – giving them the relevant skills and experience they need to move into sustained employment. Jobs Growth Wales is offering young people a way of avoiding long term unemployment preventing them from suffering the damaging social and personal costs of prolonged periods spent out of work in their early adult life.


Employers of all sizes have told me how well Jobs Growth Wales participants have progressed since taking up their six month opportunities, and the difference that young people have made in helping them to expand their business. For many employers, Jobs Growth Wales was the very catalyst they needed to accelerate growth.


Feedback from young people has also been overwhelmingly positive. Many of the participants I have met struggled to find employment prior to taking part in Jobs Growth Wales, but their sixth month opportunity meant they avoided long\-term unemployment. Now, as a direct result of that six month opportunity, many of them have found the permanent position they were looking for and continue to go from strength to strength.


Jobs Growth Wales is a pan Wales programme and is a key commitment within our Programme for Government.  The programme is part\-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF), of which £33M is already approved and a further £12M is being considered for further approval, result expected Spring 2014\.


The success of the programme to date has meant that we have already announced a further £12\.5 million in the Welsh Government’s budget to extend the programme for a fourth year – creating more than 4,000 extra job opportunities for unemployed young people. This extra funding will make a real difference to the lives of young people across Wales providing them with the experience needed to help them in their future careers. Jobs Growth Wales is delivering for our young people and I look forward to seeing further progress throughout 2014\.


Jobs Growth Wales statistics are published on a monthly basis and I attach a link to the latest performance statistics.  This includes the programme’s headline figures, a breakdown by strand and a breakdown of the number of jobs created and filled by Local Authority area in order that Members can assess performance in their own constituency areas.  The statistics can be found online.







Translation:


 
Rwyf am roi’r wybodaeth ddiweddaraf i’r Aelodau am berfformiad rhaglen Twf Swyddi Cymru.

Roedd 2013 yn flwyddyn ddisglair iawn i Twf Swyddi Cymru ac mae 2014 yn dilyn yr un trywydd. Mae ffigurau’r rhaglen y tu hwnt i’n disgwyliadau. Yn ôl ein ffigurau diweddaraf, mae nifer y swyddi a grewyd ac a gymeradwywyd drwy Twf Swyddi Cymru, rhaglen arloesol Llywodraeth Cymru i helpu pobl ifanc i gael gwaith, wedi pasio’r 10,000\. Mae’r wybodaeth ddiweddaraf am berfformiad a gyhoeddwyd ar 23 Ionawr 2014 yn dangos bod Twf Swyddi Cymru, sy’n cael ei gyllido’n rhannol gan Gronfa Gymdeithasol Ewrop, wedi creu 10,594 o gyfleoedd gwaith hyd yma, a bod 8,354 o bobl ifanc wedi llenwi’r swyddi hyn. Mae’r broses recriwtio yn cael ei defnyddio i baru pobl ifanc â’r cyfleoedd sy’n dal ar gael.

Elfen fwyaf y rhaglen yw elfen y sector preifat, ac mae 80 y cant o’r bobl ifanc sydd wedi dilyn y trywydd hwn wedi symud ymlaen i waith parhaol, prentisiaeth neu ddysgu pellach ar ôl cwblhau eu cyfle chwe mis. Ein targed oedd 70 y cant.

Mae cyfraddau llwyddiant elfennau’r Trydydd Sector a Graddedigion hefyd wedi’u cynnal ar lefelau tebyg i ystadegau mis Rhagfyr. Mae’r data sy’n dod i law am yr elfen Graddedigion yn dangos llwyddiant eithriadol, gyda dim ond 1% o bobl ifanc a gymerodd ran yn y rhaglen yn ddi\-waith ar ddiwedd eu cyfnod chwe mis.

O astudio’r ffigurau, gwelir bod elfen hunangyflogaeth y rhaglen, sy’n cynnig bwrsariaeth i entrepreneuriaid ifanc, eisoes wedi helpu i greu 200 o fusnesau newydd ers iddi ddechrau ym mis Ebrill 2012\. Fel Llywodraeth, rydym am ysgogi diwylliant o entrepreneuriaeth yng Nghymru, felly rwyf wrth fy modd bod Twf Swyddi Cymru wedi helpu 200 o bobl ifanc i ddechrau eu busnes eu hunain. Mae hyn yn llawer gwell na’r targed, ac mae nifer y ceisiadau am y fwrsariaeth i entrepreneuriaid ifanc yn parhau i godi.

O edrych ar ganlyniadau Twf Swyddi Cymru yn gyffredinol, mae cyfran y bobl ifanc sydd wedi symud ymlaen i gael gwaith fel prentisiaid ar ddiwedd eu cyfnod gyda’r rhaglen wedi cyrraedd 25% \- unwaith eto, yn rhagori ar y disgwyliadau. Drwy gydgysylltu ein rhaglenni hyfforddi a chyflogadwyedd, rydym yn creu llwybr i waith a chrefft i bobl ifanc. Byddai’r rhan fwyaf o lywodraethau Ewrop yn genfigennus iawn o lwyddiant fel hyn.

Mae’r rhaglen hon yn gwneud gwahaniaeth go iawn, gweladwy ym mywydau pobl ifanc – gan roi’r sgiliau a’r profiad perthnasol sydd eu hangen arnynt i symud ymlaen i waith parhaol. Mae Twf Swyddi Cymru yn cynnig ffordd o osgoi diweithdra hirdymor gan eu hatal rhag orfod dioddef y niwed cymdeithasol a phersonol a ddaw yn sgil cyfnodau hir o ddiweithdra fel oedolion ifanc.

Mae cyflogwyr o bob maint wedi dweud wrthyf cymaint yw datblygiad pobl ifanc sy’n dilyn rhaglen Twf Swyddi Cymru ers dechrau eu chwe mis, a’r gwahaniaeth y mae’r bobl ifanc wedi’i wneud wrth helpu i ehangu eu busnes. I lawer o gyflogwyr, Twf Swyddi Cymru oedd yr union beth oedd ei angen i ysgogi twf.

Mae’r adborth gan y bobl ifanc hefyd wedi bod yn aruthrol o bositif. Roedd llawer yn ei chael yn anodd dod o hyd i waith cyn dilyn y rhaglen, ond diolch i’r cyfle chwe mis hwn, maent wedi osgoi diweithdra hirdymor. Erbyn hyn, o ganlyniad uniongyrchol, mae llawer wedi dod o hyd i’r swydd barhaol roeddent yn chwilio amdani ac maent yn mynd o nerth i nerth.

Mae Twf Swyddi Cymru yn rhaglen sy’n weithredol ledled Cymru ac mae’n un o’n prif ymrwymiadau yn ein Rhaglen Lywodraethu.  Mae’n cael ei hariannu’n rhannol gan Gronfa Gymdeithasol Ewrop (ESF); mae £33 miliwn eisoes wedi cael ei gymeradwyo ac mae £12 miliwn wrthi’n cael ei ystyried; cyhoeddir canlyniad hynny yn y Gwanwyn.

  
Yn sgil llwyddiant y rhaglen hyd yn hyn, rydym eisoes wedi cyhoeddi £12\.5 miliwn arall yng nghyllideb Llywodraeth Cymru i’w hymestyn am bedwaredd blwyddyn – gan greu mwy na 4,000 o gyfleoedd gwaith ychwanegol i bobl ifanc ddi\-waith. Bydd y cyllid ychwanegol hwn yn gwneud gwahaniaeth gwirioneddol i bobl ifanc ledled Cymru ac yn rhoi’r profiad sydd ei angen arnynt i’w helpu yn eu gyrfaoedd. Mae Twf Swyddi Cymru yn cyflawni ei bwrpas ac rwy’n edrych ymlaen at weld mwy o lwyddiant yn 2014\.

Caiff ystadegau Twf Swyddi Cymru eu cyhoeddi bob mis ac rwy’n amgáu dolen i’r ystadegau perfformiad diweddaraf. Mae hyn yn cynnwys prif ffigurau’r rhaglen, manylion pob elfen a nifer y swyddi a grewyd ac a lenwyd yn ôl ardal Awdurdod Lleol, fel y gall Aelodau asesu’r perfformiad yn ardaloedd eu hetholaethau. Mae’r ystadegau i’w gweld ar lein.