Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Children – in the Senedd at 3:00 pm on 5 April 2017.
Carl Sargeant
Labour
3:00,
5 April 2017
Well, these aren’t new schemes. Lift and Communities for Work and the PaCE programme weren’t available in all of the clusters. We are making sure Lift and Communities for Work will be available in all the 52 former Communities First clusters, investing £12 million, as the Member said, about taking people who are very hard to reach from the market into employment. That isn’t always about an employability programme, but maybe about confidence building or otherwise giving people confidence to move into that plan. I’m also talking with Julie James in terms of her employability pathway to make sure that these very specific programmes in communities add value to the longer term Intervention of lifelong learning. So, I’m more than happy to write to the Member with details of these schemes, but they aren’t new; we’re just increasing the capacity within the sector.
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