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Brief update on the Future Jobs Fund
12 January 2010
The initial phase of the Future jobs Fund programme is underway across the North West with the first people starting work in October and November. Third sector organisations are getting heavily involved, mainly through their local and sub regional economic partnerships.
- The fund is targeted at young people aged 18-24 who have been unemployed for more than 9 but less than 12 months and people of all ages in unemployment ‘hotspots’
- Jobs must last 6 months and pay at least the National Minimum Wage. Working hours requirements vary across the region.
- Job search, personal development and progression are an integral part of the programme, organisations are encouraged particularly to consider apprenticeships and Train to Gain opportunities for their Future Jobs Fund employees.
- Each job must be new and additional – it would not have existed without the funding provided by the Future Jobs Fund. It must also meet the ‘newspaper test’. If this job was advertised in your local paper would anyone apply for it?
- All jobs must have a community benefit.
To find out more about the Future Jobs Fund, please read VSNW's guidance: The Future Jobs Fund: A good start?
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