Training providers are to be paid £300 for getting jobless 18- to 24-year-olds into part-time positions that last just four weeks, under the government's "young persons guarantee" to jobs and training, CYP Now can reveal.
In other welfare to work initiatives such as the Flexible New Deal, providers have a target to get unemployed young people into jobs lasting six months. The Future Jobs Fund also provides a minimum of six months work.
But guidance published by the Learning and Skills Council last week outlines shorter-term targets for the Routes into Work training element of the guarantee.
Providers give young people on the scheme one or two months of employment training, before working with Jobcentre Plus to get participants into jobs that last at least 16 hours a week for a minimum of four weeks.
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