The Vocational Training Framework is part of the wider Joined Up for Business employer offer. 

Joined Up for Business gives businesses a "no wrong door" approach and offers a bespoke, free recruitment and training service, as well as a business growth support service for SMEs. 

The service helps businesses identify funding initiatives that can support their recruitment, training and business growth needs. Joined Up for Business also support the Fort Kinnaird Recruitment Skills Centre, and the new St James Quarter development through the FUSE skill centre. 

Joined Up for Jobs sets out the framework for a partnership of key agencies and frontline services to work together to help more people into employment, improve skills and reduce poverty through our Strategic Skills Pipeline and the new Enhanced Regional Skills Pipeline.  

Capital City Partnership contract manages most of the services on offer, including contract management of the emerging No One Left Behind funded provision and the wider Edinburgh and South East Scotland frameworks.  

Support is given through website resources, a client management information system, quarterly provider forums, contract management, partnership leverage opportunities, capacity building and co-production and co-design. 

 Joined Up for Families offers development support and contract management to projects supporting the six priority family groups most affected by poverty and inequality to progress. 

These projects include the Parental Employment Support Fund, the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region the Deal Intensive Family Support Service, Maximise! and the development of several new whole family support projects including The Whole Family Equality Project and the expansion of Maximise! Early Years in Edinburgh.