12 May 2009
Strategy proving to be the right pathway to youth employment
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Officials at the Department for Work and Pensions can celebrate initial success in their attempt to get youngsters off incapacity benefits (IB) and into the workplace.
A study of the department’s Pathways to work programme, published on 5 May, has found that officials, working alongside local authorities, successfully reduced IB claims among under-25s in the first few months of new benefits claims in the seven pilot areas for the programme.
It follows a tougher ministerial stance on those people claiming IB who, with support, were capable of undertaking some work. But the success so far has not necessarily been in getting youngsters into work.
Instead, officials appear to have diverted many under-25s on to the jobseeker’s allowance benefit, which requires recipients to seek work. A senior DWP source there was, however, ‘some evidence emerging that Pathways has fed through to sustained employment’.
A study of the department’s Pathways to work programme, published on 5 May, has found that officials, working alongside local authorities, successfully reduced IB claims among under-25s in the first few months of new benefits claims in the seven pilot areas for the programme.
It follows a tougher ministerial stance on those people claiming IB who, with support, were capable of undertaking some work. But the success so far has not necessarily been in getting youngsters into work.
Instead, officials appear to have diverted many under-25s on to the jobseeker’s allowance benefit, which requires recipients to seek work. A senior DWP source there was, however, ‘some evidence emerging that Pathways has fed through to sustained employment’.
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