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Network Personnel- GROW Partnership Support Programme

May 4, 2023

Network Personnel – New GROW Partnership Support Programme

 

Council areas applicable in NI

Mid Ulster, Mid and East Antrim, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Causeway Coast and Glens, Fermanagh and Omagh and Derry and Strabane.

 

To be eligible for the programme a participant must be classed as economically inactive. Our funders have defined that as:

 

Those without a job who have not sought work in the last 4 weeks and/or are not available to start work in the next 2 weeks although in practice many people who are inactive will have been so for a long time. ​

This includes people not in work who are on and off benefits, subject to the following:​

People in receipt of Universal Credit, Jobseeker’s Allowance or Employment and Support Allowance, who are in the ‘all work-related requirements’ legal conditionality groups (i.e. Light Touch and Intensive Work Search), are considered economically active and are not eligible for UKSPF economic inactivity support.​

 

There are three main aims of the programme for participants in:

 

  1. Increasing their skills levels​
  2. Moving them closer to mainstream provision ​
  3. Take steps to secure sustainable employment or self-employment​

 

We are now in a position to take referrals for the programme across all our council areas.

 

As with our previous support programmes we have delivered, GROW support will be bespoke to the individual, with all participants being assigned an individual Support or Key Worker as their main source of support. We are very lucky in that there is a lot of flexibility.

 

If you have someone who would be eligible for the programme and is interested in availing of GROW please send their name and contact information to the following email address referral@networkpersonnel.org.uk

 

We aim to contact all referrals made to the programme within 48 hours and schedule initial appointments.

 

If you have any queries about our new programme please don’t hesitate to email me or give me a call on the number below.

Andrew McCutcheon

Stakeholder Engagement Manager

Mobile: 07885383897

Email: Andrew.McCutcheon@networkpersonnel.org.uk

 

We plan to circulate training schedules and flyers once our funders have approved them, hopefully in the very near future.