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This Job Re-creation(JR)
is expected to produce
200,000 new jobs,
primely aimed at the 18
to 24 year olds.
What about the older
workers(1.74 million)?
Is the government
sending them to the
scrap heap?
What we say
This JR programme
will produce a lottery
style process were
businesses who shout
the loudest will get a
slice of the £1 billion
on offer.
The JR programme is
simular to the Youth
Training schemes
(YTS) of the 1980’s and
will not contribute to
developing long term
sustainable jobs for the
future prosperity of
Britain.
It will further deminish
the Trade Unions
bargaining right due to
the programme refering
to ‘The Minimum Wage’
This new JR programme
offers on average to the
18 -22 year olds
£118.63p for a 25hr week
over a six month period.
Thats on average 53% of
the sum allotted from
Government for each
person.
The other 47% some
£3,087 is unaccounted
for.
Will this sum go straight
to the employer,or for
National Vocational
Training (NVQ’s),it not
clear and misleading to
the Tax Payers.
As Local Authority’s will
administer the allocation
of funds through ‘bids’ we
trust it will not end up like
the European Funding of
which the ordinary
person in the street got
little of in terms of long
term employment.
It must be administrated
through Local Authority
Work Committees,
comprising of Trade
Union Representatives,
Educational Boards,
Work Councils and local
businesses. In this way
we will see transparency
and fairness towards
unemployed young
.people.
The individual job seeker
must not be treated by
this JR programme to
massage down
unemployment figures in
this time of recession.
It should not be a
measure to remove
people off the Job
Seekers registar, nor to
remove them off benifits
if they cannot fulfil the
Job centres request to
become an LEP
applicant through no fault
of their own.
Guide to the Future Jobs Fund
What is the Future Jobs Fund?
The Future Jobs Fund is a fund of around £1 billion to support the creation of jobs for long term
unemployed young people and others who face significant disadvantage in the labour market.
The Fund was announced in Budget 2009 and the money is to be spent between October 2009 and
March 2011. As the Future Jobs Fund is a challenge fund, not all organisations that submit bids will
be successful. The fund is run by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in partnership with
the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) and with input from JobCentre Plus
and Regional Government Offices in England.
The Fund aims to create 150,000 jobs, primarily aimed at 18-24 year olds who have been out of
work for nearly a year. Future Jobs Fund is a part of the Young Person’s Guarantee. From early
2010, everyone in between the ages of 18 and 24 who has been looking for work for a year will get
an offer of a job, work experience, or training lasting at least 6 months. We are keen to encourage
bids from all areas across Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales). We are also specifically
targeting 50,000 jobs in unemployment hotspots and expect around 10,000 of the 150,000 jobs
created to be green jobs.
We encourage innovative bids to create jobs and the Government is keen to work with local
authorities, social enterprises and charities to turn this important priority into reality for 150,000
people.
Who can bid?
Bids can come from anyone, but we have a strong preference for partnership bids involving a wide
range of organisations. We expect a significant number of bids for funding to be led by local
authorities, sub-regional, city region and local partnerships, or by national or local public sector and
third sector bodies. But we are also looking to organisations in the third sector and private sector to
play their part in creating new, exciting jobs.
We expect bids to the Fund to be mainly led by larger organisations However, we are committed to
helping smaller organisations, including social enterprises, get involved, and so we strongly
encourage such organisations to work in partnership with local authorities and/ or other third sector
organisations to develop joint bids. We will continue to refine the bidding processes to ensure that
we meet our aims and organisations of all sizes are involved.
What are the criteria?
Minimum Criteria
Each bid will need to demonstrate that: it will create extra jobs, lasting at least 6 months, either for
long term unemployed young people or people in unemployment hotspots; the work done will benefit
local communities; and the work will be under way quickly.
Some definitions –
by ‘extra’ we mean that the jobs would not exist without this funding;
by ‘job’ we mean work for at least 25 hours a week paid at least at the national minimum wage;
by ‘long term unemployed’ we mean people who have been on Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) for
approaching a year; by ‘young people’ we mean between 18 and 24; by ‘hotspot’ we mean areas
where the rate of unemployment on the JSA measure is (using the latest seasonally unadjusted
unemployment figures) more than 1.5 percentage points above the national average. We ask bidders
to identify any geographical area(s) that they consider to be such a “hotspot” when presenting their
bid.
The Future Jobs Fund contribution will be a maximum of £6,500 for each job. We welcome bids with
a lower unit cost and/ or which align other funding streams to supplement Future Jobs Fund funding.
All bids are expected to demonstrate value for money by delivering maximum benefit to individuals
and communities for the cost incurred.
All partnerships involving a Local or Unitary Authority that are awarded funding in England, are
required to develop a Work and Skills Plan by April 2010. In developing bids, local partnerships need
to set out an initial worklessness assessment to demonstrate the longer-term benefits the funding will
deliver. We are discussing with partners in Scotland and Wales whether any similar requirements
should be placed on authorities in those areas.
One of the key aims of the Jobs Fund is to support the Young Person’s Guarantee Bidders should
demonstrate that jobs correspond to levels of long-term unemployment, particularly youth
unemployment, in areas where jobs will be created. Bidders need to set out a timeline of when and
how many jobs will be made available month by month over the length of the period covered by their
bid (i.e. we do not anticipate that all jobs will start on the same day).
Secondary criteria
Once a bid has passed the minimum requirements, we will take account of a number of secondary
criteria. These are: - unit cost to the Fund, in terms of both: the cost per job or group of jobs for each
bid; and the extent to which other funding streams are aligned to support the proposal, e.g. Working
Neighbourhoods Fund in England and Deprived Areas Fund in Scotland and Wales where available;
- the extent to which the job would support an individual’s move into permanent employment,
through: the potential of the job itself to lead to permanent employment; or the inclusion of accredited
training, development opportunities and job search activity within the bid; and providing confidence
that the jobs will be delivered successfully, e.g. a track record of delivering jobs of this type or
support to young people.
How does the bidding process work?
Bids can be submitted at any time and they will be assessed in monthly batches from the last
working day for each month. Bids which pass the initial assessment are assessed by regional teams,
using the secondary criteria, at the end of the month during which they are received.. We should
notify bidders of whether their bid was successful within 6 weeks of the last working day of each
month. We expect high quality bids and so we encourage bidders to work with key local stakeholders
as they develop their bids. Advice to help bidders prepare their bids is available from the contacts
named in the contacts section of the website. In England this is the named contact in each of the
Regional Government Offices and in Wales and Scotland, this is the named contact for JobCentre
Plus. There are also specific contacts for national organisations.
Bids are considered by an assessment panel taking advice from experts where necessary. The
assessment panel may invite bidders to clarify their proposals before allocations are made. Bids
which pass the minimum criteria but are not successful initially will receive full feedback and we
would suggest they strengthen their bids and resubmit at a later date.
Bids must be submitted electronically to: future.jobsfund@dwp.gsi.gov.uk and should strike a
balance between providing enough detail for assessors to mark the potential jobs, and only providing
information that is directly relevant to the bid.
How will people be matched to places?
Successful bidders need to meet their commitment to fill the jobs with long term unemployed people.
Eligible candidates will be referred to employers by Jobcentre Plus. Wherever possible Future Jobs
Fund employers will be encouraged to sign a Local Employment Partnership (LEP) with Jobcentre
Plus.
Future Jobs Fund employers are not required to take on any particular individual who is referred to
them but are expected to give reasons if they decline to take someone on and to provide feedback
on what the individual could have done to be successful in their application.
What support will Jobcentre Plus provide?
Jobcentre Plus will be a key partner in the referral and support process for Future Jobs Fund
employers. People will be referred to Future Jobs Fund employers following discussions with their
Personal Advisor. Bidders should discuss with Jobcentre Plus whether their bid assumes that any of
the jobs created will go to people over the age of 24, particularly in unemployment hotspots.
How do we pay employers?
We are finalising how we will transfer funds to Future Jobs Fund employers, but expect that the
funding will be paid partly up front, to cover agreed start up costs, with remaining funds paid over the
course of the 6 month job.
What are employers required to deliver?
Employers should deliver jobs according to the parameters of their proposal. This will be set out in
an agreement between the lead bidder and DWP, which will be a formal contract.
Employers should act as good employers, by delivering the requisite training and support in the
workplace and helping the individual find sustainable employment. If bidders wish to apply for Future
Jobs Fund resource to fund the first six months of a Modern Apprenticeship they will have to
demonstrate that the apprenticeship will be paid at National Minimum Wage and that alternative
funding will be available to fund the remainder of the apprenticeship.
Bidders need to think creatively about involving a wide range of partners who can deliver additional
support to their Future Jobs Fund employees.
Future Jobs Fund employers must offer an exit interview to everyone who leaves a Future Jobs Fund
job to assess their experience of the job, and provide them with a reference that captures their
performance, attendance record and any skills learnt.
Who gets these new jobs?
The Future Jobs Fund is set up to provide additional job opportunities to jobseekers and other
people on out of work benefits who would otherwise be unable to find work, by ensuring a significant
number of people, particularly those aged 18 – 24 who have been unemployed for around 12
months, are able to take up these new jobs.
The Future Jobs Fund is a vital part of the Young Person’s Guarantee, although it will also provide
much needed and valuable support to other people who have been out of work and on benefit for
around a year living in an unemployment hotspot. The Young Person’s Guarantee will ensure that
young and disadvantaged people do not lose touch with the labour market.
August 2009 and there
are 2.5 million people
unemployed in Britain.
726,000 are under 25
years of age. This new
programme will hope to
employ 200,000 of that
age group.
Half a million will be left
to their own devises to
find work.
This leaves 1.74 million
who are over 25 have no
available help from such
schemes.
