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DWP Sending Out New Mobile Jobcentres to Get People Into Work
The Department for Work and Pensions is deploying nine vans across six areas to help reduce barriers to employment amid a 5.1% unemployment rate, officials said.
- The Department for Work and Pensions announced nine Jobcentre vans will join the fleet across six areas, including Barrow-in-Furness and Blackpool.
- Unveiled after a pilot, the programme meets people where they are, including outside leisure centres and municipal parks, as the Government reforms employment support amid 5.1% unemployment last year, Office for National Statistics data show.
- Previously, DWP trialled Jobcentre on Wheels vans in the Scottish Highlands, North and Mid Wales and Greater Manchester, and DWP data show more than half of visitors were not benefit recipients.
- The Department for Work and Pensions says the expansion builds on earlier success to unlock opportunities for even more people across the country, with the programme aiming to break down barriers to employment, Pat McFadden said.
- Bolton's Jobcentre on Wheels at Horwich Leisure Centre provides a local example of Jobcentre vans parked outside leisure centres, positioning the service as unconventional outreach into local community settings.
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DWP sending out new mobile Jobcentres to get people into work
The vans will be deployed to six new areas
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The NEN - North Edinburgh NewsMobile Jobcentres hit the road in six new areas to deliver employment support
Jobseekers are to benefit from the roll-out of mobile jobs vans across Great Britain – appearing outside leisure centres, supermarkets and even football stadiums.
·United Kingdom
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