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Care First Careers

  • Last modified date:
    31 March 2010
A young care worker talks to the Prime Minister at the event launch.

Care First Careers is a joint Department of Health and Department for Work and Pensions recruitment initiative to get more young people into the adult social care sector.

  • Care First Careers launched across England, Scotland and Wales on 25 January 2010 and is available to all social care employers.
  • Under Care First Careers, employers in the adult social care sector will be encouraged to take on young jobseekers by receiving a £1000 cash subsidy plus free pre-employment training for every 18-24 year old that they employ who has been receiving Jobseekers Allowance for more than 26 weeks. This is part of DWP’s Young Person’s Guarantee that promises from early 2010, everyone in between the ages of 18 and 24 who has been looking for work for 6 months or more will get an offer of a job, work experience or training lasting at least 6 months
  • The scheme is administered by Jobcentre Plus whose front line advisors will be primed to promote adult social care as a key route into work for long-term unemployed 18-24 year olds 
  • To support the introduction of Care First Careers a series of 11 regional launch events will take place in January and February across England, Scotland, and Wales, where adult social care employers from each region will be invited to learn more about employing young people and encouraged to participate in the scheme
  • Care First Careers aims to stimulate wider interest in adult social care and attract a younger and more diverse workforce, with talent being spotted early on and helped to develop. Nurturing the potential core employees of the future from an early point in their careers can lead to more sustainable employment and help grow the workforce of the future
  • Employers can visit the Job Centre Plus website to find out more about Care First Careers and how to get the subsidy.

Care First Careers coverage book

The Care First Careers coverage book is a collection of cuttings from stakeholder publications, national press, trade press and online coverage of the Care First Careers campaign which ran January-March 2010 with communications activity to support the launch of the Care First Careers scheme.

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