WHAT ARE LEPs?
LEPs are agreements made between Jobcentre Plus (JCP) and local employers to help support Priority Customers (those furthest from the labour market) into work. The agreements can have a number of measures based on the extent to which an employer is willing to provide additional support and flexibilities to recruit JCP/MTC clients. These measures may include job-mentoring, work trials, flexible working hours, pre-recruitment training or a change in their usual recruitment process.
Nottinghamshire’s Local Employment Partnership is aiming to achieve 2505 jobs opportunities for Priority Customers by March 2009.
For details on current LEP vacancies and more, click here.
Local Employment Partnership resources
Employers that sign up to Local Employment Partnerships with JobCentre Plus will guarantee opportunities for priority group clients. JobCentre Plus uses the following definitions for priority groups:
PG1 – people in receipt of sickness benefit; lone parents on income support
PG2 – people on New Deal programmes; people on JSA for more than 6 months
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PG3 – people claiming JSA for less than 6 months
PG4 – unemployed people not claiming benefits
People in priority groups 1 and 2 are all eligible to be put forward to LEP opportunities. People in groups 3 and 4 must live in a DWP Priority Ward – please use the postcode checker at the bottom of this page to check.
Clients must be ‘job ready’ – Making the Connection and JobCentre Plus have now launched a partner definition of job ready that will need to be used by all partners who want to access LEP opportunities. Click to download the JOB-READY DEFINITION.
For more detailed information on Local Employment Partnerships, please contact Julie Speed on 0115 979 3741.
Priority Ward Postcode Checker
