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• The Government wants to Get Britain Working
• This will require the support of all our partners, employers and providers who have the expertise and local knowledge to give individuals the tailored support they need to find work
• Get Britain Working is the ‘umbrella’ title for a new model to help people off benefits into work and includes:
– More flexible Jobcentre Plus Offer
– Get Britain Working Measures and the
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Work Programme
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• Greater focus on diagnosing claimants’ individual needs
• More flexibility and responsibility for Jobcentre Plus advisers
• Raised expectations of claimants’ commitment to finding work
• Extending range of digital services
• District Managers flexibility
– Flexible Support Fund
– autonomy to use resources as needed locally
– provision could vary not only at District level but down to site level
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• Work Clubs
• Work Together
• Work Experience
• Enterprise Clubs
• New Enterprise Allowance
• Mandatory Work Activity
• Sector-based work academies (to be launched August 2011)
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• Support Contract
– modular jobsearch support
• Work Choice
– to support those with disabilities
• Support for people dependant on drugs and or alcohol
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Mental Health
– network of Mental Health Co-ordinators in each JCP District
– mental health awareness training for JCP advisers
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• A key part of the pre-Work Programme offer for JSA and ESA (WRAG) claimants from day one of their claim
• Jobcentre Plus - light touch skills screening
• Next Step – in depth assessment and careers and skills advice
• No ring-fenced skills budgets for individual programmes
• Working with colleges, training providers – responsive to local need
• Focused on preparing active benefit claimants to move quickly into work
• Working with employers and NAS to maximise apprenticeship take-up
• Skills Funding Agency European Social Fund provision
• Skills Conditionality – due to Go Live 1 August 2011
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Universal Credit
– will make sure that work pays
Incapacity Benefits Reassessment
– Trials began October 2010
– Reassessment exercise is on track to be completed by Spring 2014
Lone Parent Obligations
– From April 2011 lone parents with a youngest child aged seven and over
– New Welfare Reform Bill – the age threshold will be reduced to the age of five
Contribution based Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
– Introducing a time limit of one year for contributory based ESA
Pension Reform & Equalisation
– From 6 April 2010 the age for when women receive their state pension started to increase
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• To fund voluntary access to the Work Programme for Income Support and/or Incapacity Benefit claimants who would otherwise be ineligible for the
Work Programme
• To support people in worklessness households with complex needs overcome barriers to employment
Convergence (Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly)
• Will mirror above and;
• Delivers motivation, confidence building, personal development through social enterprise (until December 2011)
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• Referrals to the new Work Programme started 13 June in the South West
• Local provision designed & delivered by providers
• Radical change to payment by results and performance measures
• Will help people with a wide variety of needs
• Forms a coherent package complementing Jobcentre Plus support and Get
Britain Working measures
• Previous complex array of contracted provision ends
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Claimant Group
Jobseekers Allowance
(JSA) claimants aged 25+
Time of Referral
From 12 months
JSA claimants aged 18-24 From 9 months
JSA claimants who have recently moved from
Incapacity Benefit
JSA claimants who are seriously disadvantaged by one or more factors
All Employment Support
Allowance (ESA) claimants
From 3 months
From 3 months
At any time
ESA (income related) Work
Related Activity Group
When claimants are expected to be fit for work within 3 months
Basis for referral
Mandatory
Mandatory
Mandatory
Mandatory or voluntary depending on circumstances
Voluntary
Mandatory
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Prospects & Working Links
Devon & Cornwall
Dorset & Somerset
JHP & Rehab Jobfit
Wiltshire & Swindon
Gloucestershire & West of England
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Jobcentre Plus and Work Programme Providers are working locally to:
• Understand individual Provider Customer Journey
• Define joint working with Strategic Partners
• To agree co-location and outreach
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Agree a joint strategy for working with employers
• Working together
– to share Labour Market Information
– to understand local economic position
– to recognise the full range of support available from partners
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Group Provision Manager: Linda Germon
Tel: 01626 325418
Mob: 07795 267357
Email: linda.germon@jobcentreplus.gsi.gov.uk
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