Boost To Learning

Carl Sargeant AM has welcomed a £10.5 million Boost that will contribute to tackling economic inactivity in North East Wales
Two projects investing over £40 million to help economically inactive people back into the labour market and into learning will receive a £10.5 million boost, Welsh Labour’s Deputy Minister for Skills, John Griffiths has announced.
The funding boost will assist the Wales Council for Voluntary Action's(WCVA) Engagement Gateway programme and North Wales Intermediate Labour Market (ILM) project which both focus on helping people into work through skills training and job placements. It consists of £4.5 million from the Labour-led Welsh Assembly Government’s Targeted Match Fund, £4.2 million from the European Social Fund and £1.8 million from other organisations across Wales. This is in addition to the £43 million funding package given to the projects last year to support activities in the Convergence region of Wales. Both projects will offer contracts of up to £150,000 to organisations of all sizes to deliver activities aimed at reaching economically inactive people.
Carl Sargeant AM said“ I fully support the North Wales Intermediate Labour Market Project and welcome this additional funding boost from the Labour led Welsh Assembly Government, we must do all that we can in Flintshire to assist those people that find themselves out of work during the present period. I will be fighting hard for even more investment that is aimed at assisting people back into work through re-training projects such as this.”
The schemes are now set to be extended to Flintshire, Wrexham, and five other Counties’s across Wales and expected to support more than 35,000 people over the next three years.