AQW 10408/22-27

Ms Kellie Armstrong
Alliance Party
Strangford

Tabled Date: 18/04/2024
Answered On Date: 14/05/2024
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Communities whether his Department has considered alternative schemes to JobStart.

Answer:

The JobStart scheme is only one of my Department’s employment programmes. It is specifically aimed at young people aged 16 to 24 who are at risk of falling into long-term unemployment, providing job opportunities offering 25 hours of paid employment per week at the appropriate National Minimum Wage.

There are a number of alternative employment programmes and schemes available to help and support young people, long term unemployed and people with a disability and/or health condition into work and to stay in work including, Local Labour Market partnerships, Condition Management Programme, Workable, Access to Work, Work Experience and Adviser Discretion Fund.