Press Release
One of the UK’s leading employment services and training
providers, is set to further expand its West Midlands
infrastructure in order to deliver the Government’s new back to
work programme ‘Flexible New Deal’ in Birmingham and Solihull due
to start on the 5th October.
Seetec will be opening 5 brand new employment
and training centres in Aston, Kings Norton, Yardley, Central
Birmingham and Solihull for the October start. The centres will
employ approximately 200 local staff to deliver the service and
will offer the latest in IT equipment and job search
resources.
Flexible New Deal is the Government's new
initiative for individuals who have been claiming Jobseeker's
Allowance for over twelve months. It replaces the current New Deal
and Employment Zone programmes and provides jobseekers with a more
tailored and work focused approach to getting back into
employment.
Seetec will be working with Jobcentre Plus, local businesses and
a wide range of partner organisations in Birmingham and Solihull
from the private, public and voluntary sectors to deliver this new
programme. It will provide a range of tailored back to work support
including career planning, job search advice, skills training, work
experience opportunities and specialist services such as mentoring,
debt advice and confidence building.
It is estimated that more than 100,000
jobseekers across Birmingham and Solihull will be supported on
their journey from benefits back into work over the course of the 5
year contract period.
Seetec is already implementing the contract
and is currently working with delivery partners and employers to
ensure that jobseekers accessing the service in October have
opportunities at their fingertips to improve their skills and move
back into employment.
Seetec's Chief Executive Jeremy Nutter
commented "Seetec is delighted to have been awarded this contract
across Birmingham and Solihull. As a provider already
operating across the West Midlands we understand only too well the
challenges that jobseekers in Birmingham and Solihull face when
finding work particularly in the current economic climate. We are
committed to working with partners and employers in the area to
maximise opportunities for unemployed jobseekers and believe that
we can make a difference to their lives and that of their families
and local communities through this programme.”
Seetec has been delivering employment and
skills contracts across the UK for over 25 years and brings a
wealth of experience and a track record of high quality services to
this new contract in Birmingham and Solihull.
Notes for Editors:
- Seetec is one of the UK's leading Government Funded training
providers with 25 years experience of delivering Welfare to Work
Programmes and helping people back into work.
- Seetec has a network of 60 employment and training centres
across the UK delivering a range of Department for Work and
Pensions, Learning and Skills Council and European Social Fund
contracts.
- Seetec has extensive existing operations across the West
Midlands including offices in Wolverhampton, Walsall, West Bromwich
and Dudley in the Black Country; Stoke and Cannock in Staffordshire
as well as Birmingham City Centre and Coventry.
- Flexible New Deal is a fundamental part of the Government's
wider welfare reform and will underpin the principles of working
towards eradicating child poverty by 2020. The flexible New Deal
will replace the current New Deal 18 - 24 and 25+, PSL and
Employment Zones programmes.
- Seetec has delivered New Deal services since 1998 and currently
delivers New Deal contracts in North Essex, West of England and
North East London Districts.
- Seetec delivers a variety of DWP Programmes including: New
Deal, Pathways to Work, New Deal for Disabled People, Programme
Centre, Programme Centre for Lone Parents and ESF contracts.
- Seetec delivers mainstream and ESF LSC programmes including
Train to Gain, Apprenticeships, Employability Skills Programme and
Response to Redundancy.
- Flexible New Deal is being funded by the Department of Work and
Pensions.
For further media enquiries
please contact:
Seetec
Penny Cole or James Fanthorpe
01702 20 10 70
penny.cole@seetec.co.uk
or james.fanthorpe@seetec.co.uk
www.seetec.co.uk