Skills Support For Redundancy

The Skills Support for Redundancy programme is designed to provide support for public and private sector employers and training opportunities for individuals who: are under consultation or notice of redundancy; have been notified by their employer that they are likely to be directly affected by downsizing or company closure locally; those recently made unemployed and not yet claiming benefits, as well as those who have recently started claiming JSA or ESA (WRAG) .

Support will be targeted at up-skilling or re-skilling individuals to improve their employment opportunities through the delivery of targeted careers advice and skills-based interventions to meet the needs of employers offering recruitment opportunities and those generated through the creation of new Apprenticeships.

• Training can be provided to update skills needed for a specific employment sector, including pre-employment training to provide skills to enter a different occupation or sector where required;
• Training in preparation for self-employment;
• Production of a Training Needs Analysis and supporting Individual Learning Plan;
• Skills for Life diagnostics (including ICT) and delivery of Basic Skills training as appropriate;
• Access to or provision of careers advice and individual learner support.