Results 21-40 of 145 for jobpath speaker:Heather Humphreys

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...professional artists was introduced to assist self-employed artists who are temporarily in need of additional income support but wish to continue as a professional artist. Any customers engaged with JobPath and who subsequently meet the criteria as a self-employed professional artist can be cancelled from the JobPath programme. If the customer contacts their local Intreo Centre they will...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Turas Nua is one of two companies under the JobPath contracts to provide, as part of the State's Public Employment Service, employment assistance and advice to the long-term unemployed in order to assist them secure full-time paid employment. Externally contracted employment services have formed part of my Department's service provision since these services transferred from...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (21 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ..., and/or avail of suitable education, training or development opportunities, or specified employment programmes considered appropriate to the person’s circumstances.  This includes engaging with JobPath providers Turas Nua and Seetec. The process is designed to support and complement the person's individual efforts to secure employment. The person may outline the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: JobPath has provided the long-term unemployed an employment advisory service since 2015.  This service seeks to support the long-term unemployed in assisting them to obtain and sustain paid full-time employment. Between July 2015 and the end of April 2022, some 11,511 jobseekers in County Kerry have engaged with the JobPath service. In Kerry as of the end...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1094 and 1104 together. JobPath provides a case management based employment advice and counselling service to long term unemployed jobseekers. The numbers of jobseekers that have each year engaged with JobPath and of those have sustained employment for 13,  26, 39 and 52 weeks can be seen presented below in Table 1. It should be noted that many clients...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: JobPath is a payment by results model and all set-up and day-to-day operational costs are borne by the companies.  The companies are paid on the basis of performance and with the exception of the initial registration fee; the majority of payments are made only when a client has achieved sustained employment. The overall cost of JobPath will be determined by the number of people who...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: New referrals to the JobPath employment advisory service will end on the 30th of June 2022. Individuals who have been referred to JobPath will finishes their engagement period with the service. In December 2021, in light of the continuing adverse impacts of Covid-19 and on foot of extending the period of consultation with the relevant stakeholders in connection with the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Data Protection (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...transferred from FÁS.  In delivering these services the Department shares data under strict conditions to these service providers.  The Department does not distinguish between providers such as JobPath or Local Employment Services or other providers when ensuring strict data protection provisions are respected.  Persons in receipt of a job seeker payment are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Jun 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...details for the individual concerned I am unable to make enquires into the particular circumstance that the Deputy raises. However, the following broad principles apply.  Participants on JobPath receive intensive individual support to help overcome barriers to employment and to find employment.  Each person is assigned a personal advisor who assesses their skills,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (17 May 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Given the references to JobPath contractors, I am assuming that the Deputy is referring to JobPath rather than the now defunct Jobbridge scheme. Referrals to JobPath will cease at the end of June this year. Individuals already engaged with the JobPath service could potentially continue their engagement until June 2023. Given the contractual requirements to provide in-work supports to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (17 May 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Referrals to the JobPath service are due to cease in June this year and, following a comprehensive review of public employment services, new services are currently being procured, to be in place later this year. My Department previously undertook an evaluation of JobPath in partnership with the OECD. The 2019 OECD econometric evaluation of JobPath, published by my Department,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 984 to 987, inclusive, together. JobPath is an employment assistance and advice service that supports and assists people who are long-term unemployed, including those working part time, to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. It is not a job-placement service. All jobseekers over one year on the Live Register are eligible for selection to one...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: ...of the extended period of consultation with stakeholders, it was agreed to extend all current contracted employment service providers contracts, including the Local Employment Service, Job Clubs and JobPath providers until the end of June 2022. This measure was taken in order to ensure that the public employment service has sufficient capacity to support those...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Participants of JobPath do not have access to the Training Support Grant (TSG) provided by the Department.  However, the JobPath companies will on a case by case basis provide similar funding. JobPath providers have their own discretionary funds available to pay for training or other interventions; the decision to approve or reject any request for funding is solely at the discretion...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Funding (7 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Department contracts with two providers for the provision of the JobPath service, Seetec and Turas Nua. The JobPath contractors are responsible for the costs of running the service with the Department paying a small registration fee when a persons first engages with the service and Job Sustainment Fees when a customer gains and sustains employment for 13, 26, 39 and 53 weeks. No...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (22 Mar 2022)

Heather Humphreys: My Department previously undertook an evaluation of JobPath in partnership with the OECD.  The 2019 OECD econometric evaluation of JobPath published by the Department demonstrated that the outcomes for participating jobseekers, both in terms of employment and earnings, are better than those of non-participants.  Weekly earnings of people who secured employment after JobPath...