Rotherham targets workforce reintegration with £1.7m employment push - Business Link Magazine

Rotherham targets workforce reintegration with £1.7m employment push - Business Link Magazine

Rotherham Council has approved a £1.7 million government-funded programme aimed at tackling one of the UK’s highest rates of economic inactivity. Nearly 46,600 working-age adults in the area — close to one in three — are currently out of work, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics. The new initiative, Pathways […]

News: More pathways to work to be created in Rotherham

South Yorkshire is one of nine £125mm backed "inactivity trailblazers" across the country to launch, with the aim of helping areas with the highest levels of economic inactivity as part of the Government's wider Plan for Change. Backed by £18m, South Yorkshire plans a dedicated new service working with employers to hire those with health conditions, and a new “triage” system to make it quicker and easier to connect people to employment, health, …