Future Jobs Fund
Since its announcement in the budget and our role as the coordination hub,
Future Jobs Fund has been one of our main priorities in the GO. Along with
partners and colleagues from DWP and CLG we held 2 workshops to help
potential bidders understand the scheme and the assessment process
(We’ve included the presentations from these events in this edition)
and from the end of June we began the rolling process for assessment of
bids.
This culminated in last weeks announcement and a number of ministerial
visits:- up to 4,200 jobs will be created in our region following the first
round of bids which is great news for Yorkshire and the Humber
These jobs will benefit both young people under 25, and those from some of
our more disadvantaged areas, who have been out of work for nearly a year
or more. Getting them into work; work that brings benefits not only
to themselves but to the wider community – from bringing empty houses
back into use in Kirklees, to working in a Citizens Advice Bureau in
Rotherham, or becoming a health trainer in Barnsley.
And this is just the start. So far six bids from our region have been
successful – those from partnerships in:
• Kirklees (350 jobs),
• Sheffield City Region (2100 jobs in Sheffield, Rotherham and
Doncaster),
• Barnsley (644 jobs),
• the Humber (350 jobs in Hull, North East Lincs, North Lincs,
and the East Riding),
as well as from the North Yorkshire Learning Consortium (40 jobs) and
VCTrain in South Yorkshire (60 jobs).
We’ll also benefit from some national bids, including jobs with
Groundwork working with the National Housing Federation and the HCT Group
which includes community transport jobs in Leeds.
More jobs will follow as more bids are put forward and assessed in the
coming months
In this edition we’ve got:
Case Studies
• Building skills 4 a better life – North East
Lincolnshire
• Worklessness Collaborative – North East
Lincolnshire
Research
• Recent trends in unemployment
Information
on
• Governments response to the Houghton review
– Stepping up to the Challenge
• Future Jobs Fund
• Improvement and Delivery Agency (IDeA) – How to…
guides
• Find your first job
• Helping problem drug users into work
Training and
Events
• Future Jobs Fund workshops 1 June and 14 July - presentations
and handouts
• A conversation with Rosie Winterton 15 June –
Worklessness Commission
• Welfare to work 09 - removing barriers to employment – 5
November 2009
• Westminster briefing – a NEET solution in difficult times
– 13 October 2009
• Inclusion Training and events 2009
