LET THEM LEARN: FURTHER EDUCATION COLLEGES’ SUPPORT FOR THE UNEMPLOYED

They are always very keen to adapt their employability offer to suit the needs and demands of the customer and the JCP and we are excited for the future in enabling our young adults to access more wraparound support when the youth hub on campus is launched in the next couple of months. [...] The college undertook a the college’s employers to rebranding exercise to keep the create and offer employment unemployed provision separate opportunities, training and from the college campus and support. [...] Employer TAILORING PROVISION Through this kind of effective TO THE NEEDS OF THE partnership working, the college EMPLOYER has successfully placed many ex-offenders and individuals The employability team work with long term mental and across the Midlands and the physical health conditions back North engaging employers into work. [...] In collaboration to loss of self-confidence and with Kingswood JCP, South a degree of anxiety around Gloucestershire and Stroud returning to learning and College designed the Early Years employment after a length of UpSkillED course to respond to unemployment or economic the needs of those parents. [...] The Chancellor has invested in programmes in both the Department for Education and the Department for Work and Pensions, but they do not operate in tandem and are difficult to make work for employers, for students /unemployed people and for colleges.