The Young Person's Guarantee will provide all customers aged 18-24 approaching 12 months of their claim to jobseeker's allowance with the opportunity of a job, work-focused training or work experience placement.
The flexible new deal gives providers the flexibility to offer personalised support tailored to each individual jobseeker. It will be introduced in phase 1 areas from October 2009 and from October 2010 in Phase 2 areas.
The Young Person's Guarantee will be available to all eligible customers on a voluntary basis from January 2010. In line with the jobseeker's allowance benefit entitlement rules, any customer who is offered suitable paid employment through the Young Person's Guarantee must accept it or could face a sanction. However, while the programme is voluntary, customers may choose to be referred to the flexible new deal instead of the training or work experience options of the Young Person's Guarantee.
The Young Person's Guarantee will become mandatory from spring 2010. Then all customers must complete an element of the Young Person's Guarantee before they are referred to the flexible new deal.
The Department will continue to liaise with the Flexible New Deal Preferred Bidders about any potential impacts on referrals to the flexible new deal as a result of the Young Person's Guarantee. Any impacts will be time-limited, as referrals to the Young Person's Guarantee will end in March 2011.
The Young Person’s Guarantee will provide all customers aged 18 to 24 approaching 12 months of their claim to jobseeker’s allowance with the opportunity of a job, work-focused training or work experience placement. The community task force is the work experience element of the Young Person’s Guarantee.
In phase 1 flexible new deal areas, the community task force will be available to all eligible customers on a voluntary basis from January 2010. The community task force will become mandatory in these areas later in 2010 for all customers who do not take up another element of the Young Person’s Guarantee.
In phase 2 flexible new deal areas, the ‘work experience placement’ element of the Young Person’s Guarantee will be delivered through the voluntary sector and environmental task force options of the new deal for young people. When referrals to this provision stop during 2010, customers will instead be referred to the community task force.
(2) what plans her Department has to provide assistance for young people aged between 18 and 24 years old who complete one of the options on the Young Person's Guarantee but who have not secured employment.
The Young Person’s Guarantee will provide all customers aged 18 to 24 approaching 12 months of their claim to jobseeker’s allowance with the opportunity of a job, work-focused training or work experience placement.
The flexible new deal will be introduced in phase 1 areas from October 2009, and in phase 2 areas from October 2010. It will give providers the flexibility to offer personalised support tailored to each individual jobseeker.
All customers in phase 1 areas who participate in work-focused training or take up a work experience placement and who do not manage to secure employment will be referred to the flexible new deal.
Prior to the introduction of the flexible new deal in phase 2 areas, customers who do not secure employment as part of the Young Person’s Guarantee will be referred to the new deal for young people.
From October 2010, all customers in phase 2 areas who do not manage to secure employment after completing one of the options of the Young Person's Guarantee will also be referred to the flexible new deal.