NW Workforce Development - Message for Employers

2 (cost free!) WAYS TO GIVE UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE A START

1) The Graduate Acceleration Programme:
An unemployed graduate can work in your company for 6 months.(20 graduates already do this in the North West. They get Benefit + £15 per week).
For info contact: Louise McLaughlin, Business in the Community, Maydown: louise.mclaughlin@bitcni.org.uk
(Tel: 7186.1550).

2) STEPS TO WORK
up to 3-month work experience. (1,000s of people in the North West do this while staying on benefit). And if you want to keep an eligible employee, they can stay for a further 6 months period subsidised by Government).
For info contact Bridgeen O'Hagan or Karen Doyle, Employer Contact Managers, Dept for Employment, Asylum Rd.
karen.doyle2@nissa.gsi.gov.uk
bridgeen.ohagan1@nissa.gsi.gov.uk
(Tel: 7127.6931).