A new multi-billion pound support package aimed at helping the long-term unemployed fire up their job search and return to work has been announced.
The nearly £3billion Restart scheme will give jobseekers across the country – including here on the Isle of Wight – intensive support to find jobs in their local area, and break down any employment barriers that could be holding them back from finding work. This will be for those who have been out of work for 12 months or more.
Using their in-depth knowledge of the local jobs market, advisors will work with organisations across communities including Local Authorities, to deliver tailored support based on the jobseeker’s specific needs.
For some this might include bespoke training to switch into growth sectors, help to excel at recruitment stage, or support to get the right certificates to take up a job in a different industry such as construction or transport or to update skills such as IT.
Through fortnightly meetings, specialists will develop a strong understanding of their employment history and serve as a vital support network, helping them boost their chances of entering work.
Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has said:
“Jobseekers who have been out of work for some time may need intensive help to get back on their feet and into employment. Through our Plan for Jobs they will get this support – the Restart scheme will help offer specialist help to find vacancies in their local area and training if needed, giving them the best chance at finding work. This is all part of our plan to Build Back Better.”
Elizabeth Taylor, CEO of Employment Related Services Association said:
“The Employment Support sector welcomes the announcement of Restart commissioning alongside the expansion Work Coaches at Jobcentre Plus, that will ensure the right people are referred to the right provisions at the right time.
“The Employment Support sector itself will expand to meet the challenges of future delivery. This work has already begun with partnerships and collaborations being developed to increase capacity, and to build diverse supply chains that will reach into local communities through knowledge of employers and with local partnerships including the third sector, specialists and local authorities.
“For the Employment Support sector Restart is a start, we look forward to the details of allocation of ESF reserves and the future Shared Prosperity Fund to provide effective employment support for all.”
The scheme is expected to help more than a million jobseekers over the course of 3 years.
Support will last up to 12 months and is targeted at Universal Credit claimants out of work for more than a year and in need of extra help to find new employment.
Isn’t this what they do anyway… most staff at any job Centres are pretty useless and just spew out the same rubbish to every person.
This story made me smile sounds a bit like one of those fantasy novels. You can split the job advisors into two types those that try to help and those looking for any excuse to sanction people, so how their in-depth knowledge of the local jobs market is going to help when the job market on the island has collapsed is anyone’s guess.
How will that help when there are no jobs to be had ?
Yet the council will build thousands more homes here, and then watch unemployment and crime figures soar.
Vote these useless beings out.
More homes, more people = larger economy. Regardless of employed or unemployed it’s the same pound they spend. Reminds me of the pink pound stories I hear every now and then. You can whine all you like about scrounges etc etc etc but you show me a shopkeeper or a business owner who would turn away custom because a person is on benefits and I’ll eat my hat.
The ONLY extra jobs this will create is the jobs of those supposedly finding jobs for others.
Yet the Government KNOW massive unemployment is about to hit the UK come next year, and OUR council are just building more homes to add to the burden
Vote the latter OUT.
“The Employment Support sector welcomes the announcement of Restart commissioning alongside the expansion Work Coaches at Jobcentre Plus, that will ensure the right people are referred to the right provisions at the right time.
“The Employment Support sector itself will expand to meet the challenges of future delivery. This work has already begun with partnerships and collaborations being developed to increase capacity, and to build diverse supply chains that will reach into local communities through knowledge of employers and with local partnerships including the third sector, specialists and local authorities.
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I see she managed to say a lot of nothing in the above.
In plain english, rather than the padded out drivel, that covers up the fact that there aren’t really any jobs to do and this whole paragraph creates the impression that there is work for the advisors to do, as well as the job seekers.
That’s the idea – public sector bureaucrats take deliberate action to wreck the economy whilst totally insulating themselves from their decisions, making hundreds of thousands of people unemployed in the process, then they give themselves billions of extra funds to pay more public sector bureaucrats to ‘help’ the unemployed people find non-existent jobs to replace the ones the bureaucrats have just destroyed – are these people for real?
Some of the nastiest toe rags ever had to deal with,security guards do most of the work now,have met some great ones,they on a quota ,so some get nasty all depends who deals with you and when they get so many complaints they just move them to another jobcentre .
Work for yourself Those Jobcentre Mind Police will not help you
Usual rubbish, if you’re unfortunate to be unemployed it’s You that has to look for work, you give job centre staff all your information on a cv and yet they can’t put you forward or get you an interview in your job set when one arises, pathetic. As some one else said what jobs, mathematical how can you employ say 1.6 million people when there’s less than 800000 jobs and most of those are part time or temporary not real full-time jobs to earn one’s way
Let’s be honest it’s all well and good sending someone to college to learn a trade let’s say but how many people are going to be doing the same thing at the same time, finish the course at the same time and apply for the same jobs at the same time or set up there own business at the same time.
It’s not mending the problem when you re-train someone as there isnt enough jobs out there now, the damage is already done.