Jobs are being created for long term unemployed adults, thanks for the Future Jobs Fund.

Swindon Borough Council is working with the public sector and private companies to create new jobs, and has been successful in its two bids to the government for funding of a total 231 jobs. A further bid for funding for 82 jobs has also been submitted.

Background

The Department for Work and Pensions has made £1bn available for local authority-led bids to create new jobs for the long term unemployed. Nationally there is an expectation that 150,000 jobs will be created and that two thirds of these will be for those aged 18-24 years old who have been registered unemployed for about a year.

This links with the 12 Month Guarentee, to be introduced in 2010, where the government will guarentee the offer of a job, work experience or training lasting at least six months, to all 18-24 year old who have been looking for work for a year.