Unemployment is a challenge. This blog looks at what is happening around the country and some solutions. You are not alone
These are personal thoughts-
Consultancy undertaken through benefits2work.com & http://jobsearchagent.co.uk/ 07963 137094
Introduction
I feature some views on the Unemployment situation News in the UK. We feature the latest on The U.K Unemployment News. The Youtube channel has a focus on UK Unemployment News with specially selected material
The Youth have remained a challenge for a number of years. A "Lost Generation"
Today the stats were out.and additional information is available which can be provided
It is possible to look at more details in respect of Qualifications and Jobcentre plus claimant count per area or constituency. Add the additional factor that Universal Credit applies to many of the Youth.
Introduction
This section looks at people aged from 16 to 24. It is a common misconception that all people in full-time education are classified as economically inactive. This is not the case as people in full-time education are included in the employment estimates if they have a part-time job and are included in the unemployment estimates if they are seeking part-time work.
Commentary
For July to September 2016, for people aged from 16 to 24, there were:
3.91 million people in work (including 914,000 full-time students with part-time jobs)
591,000 unemployed people (including 194,000 full-time students looking for part-time work)
2.69 million economically inactive people, most of whom (2.06 million) were full-time students
Source: Labour Force Survey: Office for National Statistics
Notes:
FTE = Full-time education.
The "Not in full-time education" series includes people in part-time education and/or some form of training.
The Not in Full Time Education or Training is more commonly described as NEET
Quarterly and annual changes in the number of young people (aged 16 to 24) in the UK labour market, seasonally adjusted
Our Next graph shows how the latest estimates, for July to September 2016, for employment, unemployment and economic inactivity for people aged from 16 to 24 compare with the previous quarter (April to June 2016) and the previous year (July to September 2015).
Welfare Reform and Job search support have been a passion of mine for many years. However for the first time I have decided to share some of the sites that I have developed over recent years. You will note a common themes amongst them
Job Search Agent
Job Search Agent supports Job Seekers with their Registration & Job Alerts on Recruitment sites. The service provides a review option ensuring candidates maintain an interest in the vacancies being emailed to them
Welfare Support
Welfare Benefit Support
I undertook training with the CAB on Universal Credit and Social Security Law. I have had success as featured on recent posts in Appealing sanctions as well as Habitual Residency Test & Industrial Accident Benefits
Support.benefits2work.com
Support.benefits2work provides support for clients registering with research for Businesses based on ONS & DWP information and publication.
Christian Welfare Support
A series of pages with different areas of support that Churches and Christian fellowships may have an interest in. CAP, Foodbanks, Job Clubs, Welfare Benefits & Statistics.
Benefits2work.com
Benefits2work.com is probably the domain that has featured the most over the years. A site that has been promoted and has its own Youtube and Facebook pages. It has its Content management system with the ability to post Jobs and carries posts from Welfare news for the last few years. Registration is free and information can be of use on many subjects.
IVS
IVS looks at the international aspect of Migrating workers arriving in the U.K.
The Focus on this site is supporting Graduate level Educated workers find suitable employment in the U.K The majority are I.T skilled clients.
It's received the financial Go ahead this weekend to become an independent site. Working closely with Gabriel Elombah who is based in London
Owen Smith MP as Welsh Secretary He is a clear speaker and appears to be a Down to Earth speaker. With an interest in Low pay even in this video
The page on his web site shows he has a background representing a poorer constituency. Ideal for defending the U.K against Welfare Reform. His new boss Jeremy made it clear that Welfare is a key issue the Labour Party will be active in so Owen knows this is an important post that the party will be measured by.
Directly from the New Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary "Thanks to everyone who has written to me on the Welfare Bill vote. I thought I would respond at some length with the facts of what happened and the reason why I voted as I did. Firstly, to be clear, Labour DID vote against the Welfare and Work Bill. There were two votes on Monday night. The first was a vote for or against Labour’s ‘Reasoned Amendment’ which explained some of our objections to the Bill and ‘Declined to give the Bill a Second Reading’ – that is arcane Parliamentary language for opposing the Bill. If that vote had been won then the Bill would have been defeated and the Government would have had to withdraw it.
The second vote, once we had lost ours, was a catch-all vote on whether the Bill should go on to the next stage of scrutiny and challenge – the Committee Stage and then Third Reading.
On that vote the decision taken by Harriet Harman, our interim leader, was that Labour should abstain.
The reasoning for that was that there are some things in the Bill we agree with, for example, a new duty on Ministers to create and monitor high quality apprenticeships and a cut to social housing rents in England. I disagreed with that decision, and argued in Shadow Cabinet that there is far more in the Bill to object to than we might support. Along with Andy Burnham and others, I said that we should table a reasoned amendment, to detail our opposition to the Bill but, if that fell, we should also vote against at the second vote. However, that was not the position that Harriet took and the leadership’s decision was to abstain. That left me and others in the Shadow Cabinet with the choice whether to resign our positions to vote against the party in whose name, and on whose manifesto we were elected, or to be loyal to the leader and abide by her decision and the rules of collective responsibility.
I clearly took the decision to do the latter. I did so for three reasons:
1. I believe that integrity is important in politics, as in all things. I was elected as a Labour representative, not as an independent delegate, and the leader of Labour sets our position.
2. Had anyone from the Shadow Cabinet resigned, the split in the Labour party would have been horrendous, massively damaging our ability to take the fight – on this Bill and on the many other pernicious measures that we will face over the next five years – to the real enemy: the Tories.
3. The Bill would still not have been defeated with my vote – or, indeed, the votes of every Labour MP.
The Tories won the election, they have a majority, even if every opposition party in the House of Commons banded together against them.
And, as a back bencher, I would have had less chance to influence the policy of the Labour Party – the only party that can defeat the Tories in the next election and give us a chance of implementing progressive politics in Britain.
The only people who would have benefit from such a massive split in the Labour Party are the Tories, Nationalists, Lib Dems and UKIP, parties who want to see Labour defeated. People do not vote for divided parties, as a rule – as the Tories illustrated over Europe in the 1990s – and every year out of power for Labour is another year of increased hardship for our communities here in Pontypridd and across the UK. Nye Bevan was right when he said that we have to win power if we are to be any real use to our constituents.
They don’t just want protest, they want us to wield power on their behalf and to make a better society and a fairer economy.
We can’t do that from Opposition. But that does not mean that we cannot and will not protest against injustice when we see it in opposition.
That is why we spent much of the last five years arguing against the Bedroom Tax, low wages, cuts to disability benefits, corporate tax dodging etc. That is why Labour’s manifesto proposed not to slash 12 billion from social security spending, to increase taxes on unearned wealth and the highest incomes. And it is why Labour will continue to oppose the current Welfare Bill, word by word and line by line, at Committee stage and, unless there are massive improvements made to it (reinstating the Child Poverty targets, scrapping this awful 2-child policy etc) we will vote against it at Third Reading.
Andy Burnham, who I am supporting to be leader of the party, has made that clear, and I will be supporting him wholeheartedly in opposing the bill when we get to those crucial votes in the Autumn.
The process of opposing the Bill at Committee Stage has already started – though it will not get the headlines that Monday night’s votes did. We have already tabled amendments which seek to • Prevent the Government abolishing the targets for reducing child poverty. • Stop the 4 year freeze of Tax Credits • Change the 2 child policy These amendments, and many others fundamental changes, would have to be made to the Bill or I will be voting against it.
Now that may not be enough of an explanation, nor sufficient opposition for some, but it is an honest reflection of what happened last week from my perspective and a sincere pledge that I will continue to vote against the Bill, and fight for a Labour victory in 2020.
Its all about Welfare Change. The changes that may well effect are those on Universal Credit, JSA Youth Contract, Esa Disability benefits and Industrial Accident David Cameron the prime minister showed the cameras the manifesto. He refers to the manifesto and you can see some of the relevant comments here.
"A job is the best way toprovide security forfamilies"
Introduction
Following the election of the Conservative Party to power within the Uk. the Key phrase used within their Manifesto has been "Full Employment" not underemployment or Unemployment. In this Post I have Quoted the Partie's manifesto
We will boost apprenticeships and help you secure a good job We have already delivered 2.2 million new apprenticeships over the last five years. Over the next five years, we will deliver three million more and ensure they deliver the skills employers need. We aim to achieve full employment inthe UK, with the highest employment rate in the G7, and we will help businesses create two million jobs over the Parliament. We have abolished the jobs tax – employers' National Insurance contributions (NICs) – for the under 21s and next year we will do the same for young apprentices under 25. We will continue to help smaller businesses takeon new workers through the Employment Allowance, whichfrees businesses from the first £2,000 of employers’ NICs sothat a third of employers pay no jobs tax.
"Our plan will help togenerate jobs and higherwages for everybody"
Youth & NEET's
Jobcentre Plus advisers will work with schools and colleges to supplement careers advice and provide routes into work experience and apprenticeships. But it is not fair – on taxpayers, or on young people themselves that 18-21 year-olds with no work experience should slip straight into a life on benefits without first contributing to their community. So we will introduce tougher Day OneWork Requirements for young people claiming out-of-workbenefits. We will replace the Jobseeker’s Allowance for 18-21year-olds with a Youth Allowance that will be time-limitedto six months, after which young people will have to take anapprenticeship, a traineeship or do daily community workfor their benefits . It is also not fair that taxpayers should have to pay for 18-21 year-olds on Jobseeker’s Allowance to claim Housing Benefit in order to leave home. So we will ensure that they no longer have an automatic entitlement to Housing Benefit We will fight for equal opportunity for Disabled Last year alone, 140,000 disabled people found work. But the jobless rate for this group remains too high and, as part of our objective to achieve full employment, we will aimto halve the disability employment gap: we will transformpolicy, practice and public attitudes, so that hundreds ofthousands more disabled people who can and want to bein work find employment. We now have more women-led businesses than ever before, more women in work than ever before and more women on FTSE 100 boards than ever before. We want to see full, genuine gender equality. The gender pay gap is the lowest on record, but we want to reduce it further and will push business to do so: we will require companies with more than 250 employees to publish the difference between the average pay of their male and female employees.
Sanctions
The two specific areas that Sanctions normally relate to are JSA ( Job Seekers Allowance ) and ESA (Employment Support Allowance) Though Universal Credit may also feature as time evolves
Lower Level Sanctions Higher Level Sanctions
Categories of JSA “sanction”
The Select Committee". We recommend that DWP make a clear distinction—in its processes, its communications with claimants, and in the official data—between claimants who are not meeting the underlying conditions of entitlement, in particular those who are genuinely “not actively seeking employment” and may therefore be abusing the system, and those who have not fully complied with the precise terms of a Claimant Commitment. At the moment, both receive the same penalty. We recommend that the Government confirm the steps it has taken to ensure that suspensions of JSA payments where the JCP Work Coach believes that the claimant has not been “actively seeking employment” do not occur before good reason can be considered, and a decision made, by a Decision Maker detached from the employment support process. DWP should set out the steps it has taken to address this issue, to provide assurance that the newly instituted procedure of making decisions in these circumstances within two days of referral is sufficiently robust to ensure that the decision has in fact been made, and the claimant notified, before the JSA payment is suspended. We also believe that notification should be by either written or telephone communication, depending on the claimant’s preferences as previously expressed to JCP staff when signing the Claimant Commitment, or subsequent to this. Review of the legislative framework for sanctioning Given the complexity of the existing legislation, there is a strong case for a review of the underpinning legislative framework for conditionality and sanctions, to ensure that the basis for sanctioning is clearly defined, and safeguards to protect vulnerable groups clearly set out. We recommend that the clarity and coherence of the legislative framework for benefit sanctions policy be included in the terms of reference of the full independent review which we have recommended. Use of Jobseeker Directions
We note the concern expressed by some witnesses that use of Jobseeker Directions has increased in some JCP offices in recent years. While we appreciate that there may be circumstances in which it might be appropriate for JCP staff to mandate a JSA claimant to undertake a very specific type of work-related activity, such as particular skills training, it is not immediately clear why such activities could not invariably be included in Claimant commitments. Intuitively we would expect there to be minimal, if any, use made of Jobseeker Directions, as the Claimant Commitment becomes more firmly established. We recommend that DWP’s evaluation of the Claimant Commitment include an assessment of the appropriate use of Jobseeker Directions and their interaction with the Claimant Commitment process. ESA sanctioning
Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) is a relatively new benefit; it was introduced in 2008 as a replacement for incapacity benefits (IB), for unemployed people with long-term health conditions and disabilities. ESA claimants considered to have “limited capability for work”, but with the capability to undertake “work-related activity” and considered to have a reasonable prospect of being able to work in the future, can be placed in the ESA Work-related Activity Group (ESA WRAG). These claimants are subject to a more limited range of conditionality than JSA claimants—attendance at mandatory work-focused interviews at JCP and/or mandatory participation in the Work Programme
DWP for many years has sent Job seekers on training courses to boost their C.V's but also to create employability options
The more common training courses have included
Basic Food Hygiene Course
Manual Handling
First Aid
Many have been encouraged to check out Safeguarding and other related training courses. Often this was purely to put something on a CV
This used to take some planning to get these qualifications. Often they were not accessible.
However, the provider's market has changed.
Providers
I was contacted by David Stephenson this week. He is a Director at the Digital College
His company produce many of the key courses that DWP required recently and allow for the claimant to undertake the training through the internet. No longer is there a requirement to attend a building at a set time for training. The internet allows the Job seeker real options
The internet is opening many doors allowing us to provide training support through the internet.
Be Inspired's Managing Director Lisa Duffy also shared with me the work that her company is doing. Be Inspired is working with clients to provide them with solutions that overcome barriers
Having identified many of the issues that we have featured on our site's she has like ourselves provided individuals with assessed solutions.
The services her company provides are services that many really keen Job seekers will welcome.
As a job seeker in the U.K if you need help you need to ask. So that we can provide you with some solutions
Current DWP Minister Esther McVey receiving a grilling from the Select Committee of MPs chaired by Dame Anne Begg. A comical performance; McVey's rambling did not answer one question put to her, she didn't know figures asked of her, and denied evidence of DWP staff being harassed into sanctions targets
Impact questions were repeatedly asked of the Minister from as early as the first 5mins of the review
no evidence was offered of any success. I have included aproximate timings of comments throughout this video- so specific comments and questions can be followed in context.
DWP Punitive Sanctions
DWP Sanctions are described as punitive in this committee. by both Dame Anne Begg Chair of the Work and pensions Committee.
13:00-No research has been undertaken on the effects on Sanction on claimants own ability to survive
Advisors had made it clear that there was a culture of targeting the vulnerable with sanctions. This is shown in this cjss article.
15:50 -No support is really offered to sanctioned claimants.
17:11 mins-Sharon Gilmore indicates that many step back from the job search to deal with the finances. She felt that the claimants were treated like naughty children
DWP Communications
Some claimants often only found out that they had been sanctioned through checking their bank accounts.
The committee continues to question as to how the Sanctions are being reviewed and how the success is being checked and there is clear indication of avoidance of the issue. No evidence of defence is provided by the department
22:00 - No evaluation or review is planned of the Sanction system
35:00- Esther McVey states you cannot have a Welfare Benefit system without a punitive Sanction based system based on International evidence
37-38 Esther answers a question from Teresa Pearce indicating that although there is a Destination survey her department is unclear as to how many have gone into work due to sanctions and how many have just changed benefits.
Welfare benefit witheld
41:00- Debbie Abrahams asks about the money withheld from claimants. rising from 2010-2011 at 45 million to 60 million in 2011-12. esther indicates that Stephen Timms requst for further information has been turned down as the stats aren't accurate as they do not include Hardship benefits. This has led to the statisticians decision not to reveal more information.
Universal Credit
Debbie's constituency includes Oldham that has seen the introduction of Universal Credit in recent times.
43:00- Debbie indicates that £275 million has been witheld. A minute later Debbie refers Esther to Universal Credit conditionality. The Sanction issues related to in work sanctions on low pay.
Esther then indicates that there will be conditionality on the Universal Credit payments including
Requirements to reach a certain Threshold of income -£11.000 -Promotion, training etc....A random control pilot....
The Term " Scrounger" has been used by the media. Papers like the Independant have
Iam on benefits but i am no scrounger
I find the phrase "Scrounger" often se
ems to fit in the category of the disabled.
The title featured here clearly is the headline of this article featured on the Money Saving Expert.com
Not everyone on benefits is a scrounger. is the opening line. But I ask myself why some politicians would promote this concept of Benefit claiments being defined as a Scrounger
This video highlights the issue clearly. You can be working and still be deemed because of your income as using the system However our economy has CHANGED. the existing JSA system was never set up for the Zero hour contract
The Telegraph reported that JustinWelby identified correctly in my view that this phrase was inappropriate.
Although the Archbishop said he could not quote a minister using offensive language about people in poverty, he warned that people on benefits are being categorised as “scroungers”.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme the Archbishop said: “We have to be very careful about how we talk about people across the range of those who receive benefits. You can use derogatory terms – it’s just important not to do so.”
Asked whether ministers were using “derogatory” language about poor people the Archbishop said: “I can’t quote any minister of having done so, but I think there is a danger from time to time that people are categorised - that all people on benefits are seen as scroungers - and that is clearly completely unfair and untrue.”
Earlier this year the Archbishop warned that “children and families will pay the price” as a result of the Government’s welfare reforms.
Invariably those claiming or signing on will feel stigmatised by the term. Unlike the Bankers they can lose their money through a Sanction.
Scrounger headlines
These headlines have regularly featured in the medai over recent years.
Rarely has the sub heading featured well which states that the system is unfit for purpose. Yet throughout recent years we have seen ATOS and computer systems being deemed as not fit for purpose.
it is becoming clearer that there are very few that are in the " Abuse the system " category. The not prepared to work. There are far more in the "underemployed " category
In 2014, just under 1 in 10, or 3.0 million people, employed in the UK wanted to work more hours than they are currently employed to do and are therefore classified as underemployed.
On average each underemployed worker would like to work an extra 11.3 hours per week.
Over 1 in 5 people working in elementary occupations were underemployed in 2014.
In 2014, over 1 in 5 part time workers were underemployed compared with around 1 in 20 of full time workers.
The North East had the highest percentage of underemployed workers in Great Britain
Unemployment 20150 rather the last of last years stats. There are however very clear aspects that sanctions targets as well as the unemployment figures There are many that have struggled and searched and have been sanctioned however there are those that inspire
Key Points for September to November 2014
Comparing the estimates for September to November 2014 with those for June to August 2014, employment continued to rise and unemployment continued to fall. These changes maintain the general direction of movement since late 2011/early 2012.
There were 30.80 million people in work. This was 37,000 more than for June to August 2014, the smallest quarterly increase since March to May 2013. Comparing September to November 2014 with a year earlier, there were 512,000 more people in work.
The proportion of people aged from 16 to 64 in work (the employment rate), was 73.0%, unchanged from June to August 2014 but higher than for a year earlier (72.0%).
There were 1.91 million unemployed people. This was 58,000 fewer than for June to August 2014, the smallest quarterly fall since July to September 2013. Comparing September to November 2014 with a year earlier, there were 418,000 fewer unemployed people.
The unemployment rate was 5.8%, lower than for June to August 2014 (6.0%) and lower than for a year earlier (7.1%). The unemployment rate is the proportion of the economically active population (those in work plus those seeking and available to work) who were unemployed.
There were 9.09 million people aged from 16 to 64 who were out of work and not seeking or available to work (known as economically inactive). This was 66,000 more than for June to August 2014 and 41,000 more than for a year earlier.
The proportion of people aged from 16 to 64 who were economically inactive (the inactivity rate) was 22.4%, slightly higher than for June to August 2014 (22.2%) and for a year earlier (22.3%).
Comparing September to November 2014 with a year earlier, pay for employees in Great Britain increased by 1.7% including bonuses and by 1.8% excluding bonuses.
Overview of regional labour market published 21 January 2015
The employment rate estimates, for those aged 16 to 64, for the three months to November 2014, compared to the three months to August 2014, showed very few large movements for the regions and countries of the UK.
The largest increases in the employment rate estimates were for the West Midlands, at 1.0 percentage point and the North East, at 0.7 percentage points. For both regions, the employment rate estimate for three months ago was low, compared with other recent estimates, with the general pattern much flatter than suggested by the latest estimates.
The largest decrease in the employment rate estimate was for London, at 0.6 percentage points. This followed an employment rate estimate for three months ago that was unusually high, compared with other recent estimates, again with a relatively flat pattern suggested by recent estimates.
For most regions, the general picture has been for employment rates to be increasing or close to flat, with all but one region having employment rates higher than a year ago. The exception is Wales, which has been falling from record highs since late 2013, with the latest estimate 2.2 percentage points lower than a year ago.
Employment rates remain higher in the East of England and South East, both at 76.6% and South West, at 76.3%, than the rest of the UK.
The employment levels for the North East, East Midlands and Scotland, are all at record highs, with many other regions close to record highs. Despite this, the rates are below previous records, due to increasing population levels.
Regional estimates for the unemployment rate are quite volatile, which needs to be allowed for when considering the pattern of change over time.
The largest increase in the unemployment rate estimates for the three months to November 2014, compared to the three months to August 2014, was for Wales, at 0.6 percentage points.
The largest decreases in the unemployment rate estimates for the three months to November 2014, compared to the three months to August 2014, were for the West Midlands, at 1.2 percentage points and North East, at 0.7 percentage points. These decreases are consistent with the increases in the employment rates in these regions, partially due to estimates for three months ago that were high, compared with other recent estimates. The general pattern has been for a much slower rate of decrease.
All regions are showing decreases in the unemployment rate, compared with a year ago.
The unemployment rate for the North East remains the highest in the UK, at 8.5%, followed by Wales, at 7.0% and Yorkshire and The Humber, at 6.8%.
The Unemployment Stats produced today The Claimant Count for December 2014 compared with November 2014, is showing decreases in the count for both men and women across all regions of the UK.
Employment by nationality and country of birth, changes between July to September 2013 and July to September 2014, not seasonally adjusted
Employment by National Birth
makes interesting reading and viewing
Changes in the number of people in the labour market,
seasonally adjusted
Probably the starkest stat from the
graph ius the Unemployment ( aged 18+ )that has the minus stat
In the U,K a person who leaves a job voluntarily can be sanction or have their money stopped for a period of 3 months. The sanction is in respect of behavior.
The claimant has to make contact with an office in the Midlands. Whilst the letter seen here was in respect to the termination of a job in November it takes until the 13/1 for the letter to be sent.
The letter seen here is in respect of a sub contracted job. The job seeker had worked for a cleaning company, that had a contract with a major chain.
The manager of the major chain had sacked the Job seeker, however the Job seeker had had work with other companies and is expecting work in the future
The form is sent out with a sae ( stamp addressed envelope for the claimant to complete and return
DWP JSA Sanction Process
There is no form of secure online appeals procedure provided by DWP. Neither is there any support provided in processing the evidence to appeal any decision made by DWP.
Whilst the letter may be distributed by a local Job centre the job seeker is given 1 week to appeal the letter.
The form requires reading completion and returning within the week.
There is space for written submition. For many this may be a challenge.
CAB
Can local CAB ( Citizens Advice Bureau handle the volume of Appeals that they may be required to support. The chances are that skills are likely to be in demand.
Each appeal would have to reflect any basis that a decision maker my have to make based on DWP guidelines. CAB and other providers have access to CPAG and Rightnet which may assist but there is little online about the Appeals procedure for this. You only have to look at Youtube to see the need for video's on this and related subjects.
PIP or Personal Income Protection when there is a need
When someone finds themselves in a fragile past of the economy e.g Part time work, Self Employment or zero hour contract there is a stronger possibility that they may come into contact with the Department of Work and Pensions. At this point there is little protection. There are few ways that an individual can financially protect themselves against loss of income or plan for any form of Welfare Support protection.
Why would they need any form of protection?
We only have to look at the statistics and historical background to the U.K Welfare Benefit Sanctions system administered by DWP to see that there are strong possibilities that an individual and their family could easily be sanctioned and lose income for a period of 3 months. This may be replace by some form of hardship payment.
However reality is that the revision of the Welfare Benefit Act during this parliament has not led to the provision of any support for those on the lower income employment seeker
The normal recommendation for anyone in this situation is to seek advice from the Citizens Advice Bureau. and seek food from a local Food Bank
Little provision is allowed for the planning of a volatile economy of the zero hour contract.
Our economy hasn't moved
Whether the history of PIP , the Personal protection plans it is not suprising that the Insurance companies would be wary of providing any form of plan for eventualities on the loss of work.
There are however few options for the provision of support for redundant employees.
Or the employees that are unsure whether they are working from one day to the other. DWP systems have failed to update their systems for the changing working world.
How could this be resolved
Insurance Companies
Insurance companies have a marketing opportunity here.
The Provision of policies against the imposition of a Sanction.
Cover during sanction periods for those that have proven history of employment.
Provision of job search support for job seekers with proven employment history
DWP Jobcentreplus
DWP Job Matching services have opportunities to treat claimants as clients. Searching for work providing training as required on aspects of Social media job search.
To Provide an 8:00am-8pm call centre or online chat options.
Thus far there are no services and DWP do not use Twitter as a method of communications.
Whilst Job Match has the options of making contact with their adviser
However making contact with them regarding appointments is undertaken through a call centre.
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For many of these reasons including cut backs within the department there are some real possibilities for out sourcing some real support to job seekers that are likely to return to work in the current climate
The options could and should be extended to 0 hour contract job seekers who's employment situation no longer connects well with the fortnightly Job seeker.
Payment dates at Christmas and the new year from DWP the Department of Work and Pensions. This takes into consideration the Banks holidays of Christmas and New Year.
Payment due date
When you’ll be paid
24, 25, 26 December 2014
24 December
1 January 2015
31 December 2014
2 January 2015 (England and Wales)
2 January 2015
The Department of Work and Pensions ( DWP) have produced a number of statistics over the last year.
The ONS videos
Their results on Unemployment figures can be see on a monthly basis when the ONS produces their stats.
The ONS figures come out middle of the month. Here are a sample of the videos from the year.
We have produced videos on this and feedback throughout this year
The Real DWP results
But as I have often said this has not been the entire story as they do not take into consideration the figures for Universal Credit and ESA etc.
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Indeed the figures for Sanctions also make interesting viewing throughout the year as featured here. The Appeals as you see in the presentation add to an interesting story. These figures are available as are the success rates of the Appeals
Vacancies and Unemployment
Vacancies and Unemployment in the U.K
The vacancies throughout the year have changed. As I pointed out in a previous post the ratio has gone from 3.8 to 2.8
This makes the bargaining power of the potential employee look bettter. However is that a reality for the Job seeker. Ask most job -seekers looking for vacancies under £20.000 and they would probably say no.
Vacancies in Industries
A short while back i did some research into the stats.
Vacancies by industry[/caption]
I have a few pages for employers on further information in this area but the figures would also indicate which sectors of the economy have grown and which are struggling. The image seen here shown many of the sectors that are featured on the Stats. But this sort of information is not as well published as the ONS monthly Stats.
