New Government service will provide 'one-stop-shop' into training and work
29/10/2008
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.
Scheme to get parents back to work
25/10/2008
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.
Job advisers in children's centres to help parents into work
24/10/2008
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.
Free childcare for families to get back in to work
08/09/2008
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.
£75m boost for parents to find work
05/09/2008
Families will get £205 a week to pay for childcare so parents can be trained to return to work.
Jobcentre Plus pilots to launch
02/07/2008
10 local authorities will be running three year pilots linking children’s centres with Jobcentre Plus to tackle the problem of child poverty.
Adult Learners Award for Hajara
02/06/2008
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.
Tax help for families
19/05/2008
Outline of child benefit and child tax credits that can help to boost the family's income
Cash Lure for Mothers in Business
04/04/2008
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
Tax credit support website goes live
02/04/2008
The Daycare Trust has launched a website to help parents work out their benefits entitlement and strategies for paying childcare costs.
Cash Lure for Mothers in Business
12/03/2008
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.
Working parents could be saving money on childcare
03/03/2008
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.
Families better off all round
24/04/2007
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.
Better off all round: lone parents reveal lifestyle benefits of being in work
22/02/2007
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."
NCMA research finds Sure Start children's centres are working with childminders
06/02/2007
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