Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 13:35:31 +0100 GMT
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Subject: Evaluation criteria for UK "New Deal" on jobs
Evaluation criteria for UK "New Deal" on jobs
UK employment Minister Andrew Smith detailed the New Deal objectives
and committed the government to open and robust evaluation of the
effectiveness of the programme. On 6th April he said:
"The New Deal, which is launched across the country today aims to: help
young and long-term unemployed people into jobs; help lone parents and
disabled people who wish to work; improve their prospects of staying and
progressing in work; and increase their long-term employability.
"The New Deal pathfinder areas are showing the way forward through:
tailored personal advice and help to place people into jobs; encouraging
employers to recruit New Deal candidates; improving work skills,
experience, qualifications, motivation, self-esteem and job search skills;
enabling individuals to choose the most appropriate approach for them;
maintaining effective job search.
"The ways in which we do this are important, The New Deal must be
delivered: professionally, efficiently and in a cost-effective manner;
through effective local partnerships; by ensuring equality of opportunity,
and by providing community and environmental benefits, and by ensuring
that people on the New Deal, who claim Jobseekers Allowance, are
aware of, and carry out, their responsibilities."
"There will be robust, open and transparent monitoring of the
effectiveness of New Deal in meeting these objectivess, and regular
publication of statistics on the numbers and destinations of those moving
through the programme. The key questions the evaluation must address
are the effects of the New Deal on the youth labour market, on the wider
labour market,on individuals, and on employers. We will be assessing the
effectiveness of the structure and delivery of New Deal, its impact on
public expenditure, tax revenues and the numbers on welfare, and the
wider effects on social exclusion, the voluntary sector, the environment
and on re-offending levels.
The New Deal has been operating in twelve areas since January 5th.
>From 6th April people aged 18-24 who have been unemployed for six
months or more will be eligible to join the New Deal.
Press enquiries: Andrew Jones, +44 171 925 5108,
Robert Veale, +44 171 925 5104
Public enquiries: +44 171 925 5555
Crown Copyright 1998.
Source. UK government press release 06/04/98
