The ten prototypes will run for two years, testing a range of different approaches in establishing local partnerships bringing together nextstep services, Jobcentre Plus, unionlearn, local authorities, housing associations, voluntary and community sector organisations, Connexions, Primary Care Trusts, the Citizen's Advice Bureau, Sure Start Children's Centres, and others.
NOTTINGHAM has been chosen for a Government pilot scheme aimed at helping the parents of children in poverty get into work.
Ten local authorities across the country have been selected for the scheme, which will run in children's centres from January 2009.
Jobcentre Plus personal advisers, based at the centres, will help parents access work-focused services.
A new pilot aimed at helping the parents of children in poverty get into work, was launched in ten Local Authorities today.
Parents will have access to Jobcentre Plus personal advisers in Children's Centres to help them access work focussed services. The pilot which will run in 30 children's centres from January 2009, was announced today by ministers, Kitty Ussher, Beverley Hughes and Stephen Timms.
Low-income families are to be given free childcare so they can go to training courses and get back in to work.
The £75m three-year programme, announced by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, will help 50,000 families where one parent is working and the second wants to go back in to work.
Families will get £205 a week to pay for childcare so parents can be trained to return to work.
10 local authorities will be running three year pilots linking children’s centres with Jobcentre Plus to tackle the problem of child poverty.
After only three years of living in the UK, a student at TyneMet has won an award in the ‘Achieving a New Skill’ category in the North Tyneside Adult Learners’ Week award for her study achievements.
“I decided it was time to start learning and getting some qualifications,” said Hajara and she enrolled on a course through TyneMet, delivered at Howdon Children’s Centre.
Outline of child benefit and child tax credits that can help to boost the family's income
Banks would also offer help to businesswomen faced with making deals like those seen on the BBC's Dragons' Den programme. Mothers using children's centres will be targeted with business advice
The Daycare Trust has launched a website to help parents work out their benefits entitlement and strategies for paying childcare costs.
Mothers using children's centres will be targeted with business advice. The scheme will be seen by the Government's critics as an attempt to force more new mothers back into work.
Research by Childcare Choice, has shown that only about one in a hundred working mothers and fathers employed by small or medium sized companies are claiming childcare vouchers. The vouchers could save those not claiming as much as £1,000 a year.
AN online survey among UK lone parents has shown that 67 per cent of respondents in the West Midlands who had experience of both working and caring for their children full time say that working made them feel more independent and 67 per cent also felt more confident.
For example, they can provide information on Sure Start's Children's Centres or their Children's Information Service. Alternatively, they can help you find work part-time, full time or jobshare and can advise you on training for the job you want."
Almost 90 per cent of Sure Start children's centres and childminders are working together to give parents greater choice about childcare, according to research published today by the National Childminding Association