Joined up, moving up: linking services to help people back into the workforce
11 November 2009
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It is in all our interests to get as many unemployed adults as possible into work. Our new report Joined up, moving up sets out strategies to tackle worklessness and increase rates of economic participation, both of which are essential if the UK is to come out of recession stronger.
All the main political parties have expressed the desire to tackle worklessness. They recognise its cross-cutting nature and its links with other policy priorities - such as eliminating child poverty, promoting regional and national economic growth, addressing health inequalities and reducing offending rates.
Welfare reform will be critical to achieving these goals, but the recession is posing serious challenges. This report sets out the CBI's ideas for getting to grips with these challenges.
Among its recommendations are:
- Giving those who most need tailored help early access to intensive employment support
- Using the Flexible New Deal to bring a wider range of services together so people can get the tailored support they need, when they need it
- Ploughing the potential benefits savings that result when an unemployed person finds a job back into employment programmes
- Extending the use of individual budgets to allow people to accesses the services they need, when the need them
Many CBI member companies involved in providing support and advice to the long-term unemployed contributed to this report. Hear the views of some of those contributors in our policy section.
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