Kickstart Scheme
(asked on 27th May 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) women, and (2) men, have started Kickstart jobs.
This question was answered on 9th June 2021
As of 27th May 2021, there have been over 29,000 job placement starts to the Kickstart Scheme.
As the Kickstart Scheme had to be launched quickly to support eligible 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit who were at risk of long-term unemployment, a means of recording the number of participating young people from ethnic minorities or by gender was not prioritised in the initial design. Ethnicity and gender are recorded on the wider Universal Credit systems and will be used in the evaluation of the Scheme.