Kickstart Scheme

(asked on 3rd September 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many participants in the Kickstart scheme are single claimants and have declared that they are looking after a child under the age of 16.


Answered by
Mims Davies Portrait
Mims Davies
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 8th September 2021

An initial assessment of the first 50,000 claimants starting a Kickstart job found that around 1,700 young people on the Kickstart scheme were single person claimants responsible for a dependent child under the age of 16. This equates to 2% of all participants during this period. This compares to 3% of UC claimants in the Intensive Work Search group aged 16-24 who made a claim during the same time period above.

The Department will be monitoring and evaluating the Kickstart scheme throughout its implementation, and will continue to evaluate the longer term outcomes for Kickstart participants after they have completed their six-month jobs. This will include an examination of the demographic make-up of participants, including family type.

Although care is taken when processing and analysing Kickstart applications, referrals and starts, the data collected might be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system which has been developed quickly. 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. Work is ongoing to improve the quality of information available for the programme.

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