WHAT ARE LEPs?
LEPs are based on agreements made between Jobcentre Plus (JCP) and local employers to help support JCPs 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 expected to achieve 2505 jobs opportunities for Priority Customers by March 2009.
July 2008 update
Since its launch in December 2007, Nottinghamshire District have signed 129 employers to be a Local Employer Partnership Employer. Though many employers are in the Small/Medium Enterprise Category, several high profile Employers have agreed to work closely with JCP, to support our hardest to help customers into work, including Wilkinsons at Hucknall and Worksop, Next in the City and Laurens Patisseries in Newark, and A4E in the City.
JCP are holding an Employer breakfast event at the Park Plaza Hotel to thank those employers currently working hard to secure a better future for our Priority Group customers, and to encourage new employers to agree to do the same. Vacancies range from the growth sectors of care, hospitality and retail, to logistics and admin. Pre-recruitment training is also a key factor over the next quarter, to ensure that our customers have the skills to enter the Labour market, and obtain sustainable employment, and JCP is working closely with LSC and local colleges to ensure that this happens.
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 on this page to check.
A Data Protection Agreement needs to be completed for every client you want to put forward to a LEP opportunity. Making the Connection will soon be adding a sample Data Protection Agreement to this website for information.
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 Bev Dalzell on 0115 979 3723.
Priority Ward Postcode Checker
