North Yorkshire Council has agreed to over £4.3 million pounds to support the Government’s Get Britain Working Trailblazer programme.
York and North Yorkshire is one of the eight sites in England and Wales chosen to focus on improving the support available to people who are economically inactive due to ill health, and to help them to return to work.
The Executive Member for Education, Learning and Skills, Councillor Annabel Wilkinson, introduced the item and reported that the purpose of the Fund was to mobilise local, work, health and skills support to enable everyone who wanted to work to get the joined-up support they needed:
The learning from the Trailblazer would support the development of national policy and work in practice in England and Wales and the focus was on projects which could be mobilised quickly.
The Corporate Director Health and Adult Services, Richard Webb, advised that the primary focus was on removing health barriers to people entering the labour market:
The York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority was the accountable body and lead on the programme and £10 million had been made available to be spent within the current financial year across the whole Combined Authority Area.
This report was an enabling measure to ensure that the money can be received and invested, subject to satisfactory agreement of terms and conditions with the Combined Authority and the Department for Work and Pensions.
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