Employment Schemes

(asked on 11th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people started employment following their participation in the Local Supported Employment programme in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Tom Pursglove Portrait
Tom Pursglove
Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)
This question was answered on 16th January 2023

The Proof of Concept for Local Supported Employment (LSE) went live in November 2017 and ran for 18 months in nine local authorities. The figures in the table below are taken from management information supplied by the participating local authorities. It includes the total number of referrals to the service, the total number of starts on the service and the number of job starts.

Referrals

Starts

Job Starts

Totals

580

560

260

We do not hold information on the numbers in employment six months following the end of their participation in the Local Supported Employment programme.

The management information presented here has not been subjected to the usual standard of quality assurance associated with official statistics but is provided in the interests of transparency.

Definitions

  • Referrals are the number of claimants confirmed as eligible by Jobcentre Plus.
  • Starts are the number of claimants who started on the provision.
  • Job starts are all job starts regardless of number of hours.
  • All numbers are rounded to the nearest 10.
  • Claimants are defined here as Employment and Support Allowance claimants and Universal Credit claimants with limited capability for work, who had a learning disability or autism and who were known to adult social care or were in contact with secondary mental health services.

The next stage of LSE began in November 2022, operating across 29 local authority areas, running until March 2025. Grant funding represents an investment of £7.3 million over the next three years.

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