Written Evidence Apr. 25 2024
Inquiry: Devolution of employment supportFound: Netherlands - more local employment support systems including Local Authority management of Jobcentres
Written Evidence Apr. 25 2024
Inquiry: Devolution of employment supportFound: Perceptions of Jobcentres Plus are crucial for engagements levels.
Written Evidence Apr. 25 2024
Inquiry: Devolution of employment supportFound: Local jobcentres to check eligibility and authorise participation.
Written Evidence Apr. 25 2024
Inquiry: Devolution of employment supportFound: – with vast disparities in philosophy and culture of approach; service levels and engagement of staff
Written Evidence Apr. 25 2024
Inquiry: Devolution of employment supportFound: The organisational challenges to be addressed typically include staff conditions and cultures, premises
Mentions:
1: Robert Buckland (Con - South Swindon) Friend the Member for Worcester (Mr Walker).In certain jobs, autistic staff can be way more productive - Speech Link
2: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) difference.I welcome the call in the report for“processes and support mechanisms that enable autistic staff - Speech Link
3: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) As the review notes, whatever the level of understanding among company directors or senior staff, if - Speech Link
4: Mims Davies (Con - Mid Sussex) I totally agree with all the charities that talk about jobcentres always having that individualised approach - Speech Link
Asked by: Tahir Ali (Labour - Birmingham, Hall Green)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department has taken to support unemployed people in Birmingham with (a) skills training and (b) financial management.
Answered by Jo Churchill - Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
In Birmingham, our local Jobcentre Plus partnership teams are working directly with colleges and training providers to ensure claimants have access to the right skills support. Our successful Sector Based Work Academy Programmes (SWAPs) have seen almost three hundred customers in Sparkhill take up this support in the last year. This provision includes pre-employment training, work experience and a guaranteed job interview across a variety of sectors, with further SWAPs available with employers such as HS2, Compass Group, Air Scaffolding, Weatherspoon’s, and Jet 2.
In the Hall Green constituency, we have recently supported customers into jobs in the hospitality sector through English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) provision based at Sparkhill Jobcentre. Customers have also taken up non-teaching roles within local schools through the skills training we have set up with Pineapple Recruitment, and Sparkhill Jobcentre staff work closely with Joseph Chamberlain College to support claimants move into self-employment.
We are committed to ensuring that all staff can identify and signpost customers to the financial support they require. Across all our Jobcentres in Birmingham, Work Coaches have regular conversations with customers about the Flexible Support Fund (FSF) and how this can help to remove barriers to work, such as support with childcare costs.
The ‘Move In Move On’ programme helps customers in supported accommodation to move into work via a partnership with the Salvation Army. This programme offers financial education, tenancy skills and employability. We also work with The Money House which offers a financial education course to support 16–25-year-olds with banking, budgeting, and spending habits to support in reducing youth homelessness.
To help facilitate signposting discussions with customers, staff have access to a database of national and local support information, the District Provision Tool, which ensures that customers can access tailored support where required.
Apr. 24 2024
Source Page: Employment advisers in musculoskeletal pathways application guidanceFound: This may include though not limited to: primary care networks, local employers, Jobcentres, providers
Oral Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Committee: Work and Pensions Committee (Department: Department for Work and Pensions)Found: Carers Futures programme, delivered a young adult carer awareness raising session specifically to staff
Asked by: Owen Thompson (Scottish National Party - Midlothian)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff have been trained in disability awareness in (a) his core Department and (b) Jobcentres in each of the last three years.
Answered by Paul Maynard - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Department is unable to provide the information you seek within the appropriate cost limit as you have asked for information that is contained across a wide range of learning journeys.
All staff new to DWP undergo mandatory learning followed by role specific learning, this encompasses vulnerabilities and complex needs training which is threaded throughout learning. Staff continue to build on this in the workplace through accessing policy guidance and point of need learning products.
Please refine your request, for example to mandatory learning to enable data to be provided.