The municipality of Härnösand, like other municipalities, faces very significant challenges in terms of its competence supply. There is today a social paradox where those who work are burned out while those who are outside the labour market feel bad and end up in exclusion. There is therefore a great need to recruit additional staff with the right skills in both childcare and care. At the same time, Härnösand Municipality has the highest unemployment rate in Västernorrland County. In July 2023, the share of registered unemployed in the municipality was 8.5% compared to 5.8% in the county as a whole. The rate of enrolment of unemployed women was 8.6% and the rate of enrolment of unemployed men 8.4%. Among registered unemployed foreign-born persons, the unemployment rate in Härnösand municipality in the same month was even higher at 24.1% compared with 17.7% in the county as a whole. However, when recruiting, it becomes clear that many candidates have insufficient or incorrect skills or are too weak to be offered the jobs. There is thus a matching problem between staffing needs and available resources on the labour market. This makes it difficult to find employees and replacements, especially more regular replacements, which is important in working with children, the elderly and people with disabilities to create personnel continuity, security and patient safety. There is also a difficulty in recruiting substitutes and employees who can speak to foreign-born children and users in their own language. It is therefore important to strengthen the workforce with competent and long-term staff and temporary staff who can eventually become permanent staff in order to increase continuity. Within two years, Härnösand municipality will gladly have a new establishment in the form of a battery factory that is planned to employ + 2,000 people. However, this makes the municipality's skills supply even more difficult, as it increases competition for the workforce and risks attracting many today's municipal employees to jobs in the battery industry. The establishment is also likely to lead to an increased inflow of labour from the rest of the country, which means more children in need of childcare and schooling. Härnösand municipality therefore needs to develop, test and quality assure a model to attract more jobseekers to the municipality's operations, thereby securing the municipality's skills supply and securing a qualitative public service for the citizens. We want to do this by improving the skills of jobseekers who currently lack sufficient skills and/or languages to work in health and social care, functional support or preschool and support them into the labour market. The project will develop educational pathways for nursing assistants, assistant nurses and nannies where language development and vocational training are combined and based on the needs and conditions of the job seekers.