Community Employment (CE) has as an explicit primary objective, the provision of development opportunities to participants to help them gain qualifications and to secure job placement after Community Employment. In all Community Employment projects the Sponsor (employer) is required to produce structured development and training opportunities for each participant on the project. This requires the preparation of an Individual Learner Plan (ILP) with each participant. The planning, development, management, delivery and review of the Plans are part of the day-to-day responsibility of the CE Supervisor, acting on behalf of the Sponsor.
Tús focuses on those who are long-term unemployed, and aim to improve the employability and work readiness of participants by providing them with the opportunities to put skills into practice and learn new ones enabling progression to work, further education or skill development opportunities. The aim of Tús is to break the cycle of unemployment and maintain work readiness and therefore does not require an overt training element. Every effort is make to allow attendance at training courses and a degree of flexibility is allowed in the make-up of the 19.5 hours per week that participants have to work however participants will generally carry out this training in their own time.
The objective is to ensure that both programmes support the twin aims of employment activation for the participant and social inclusion. In accordance with the policy objectives set out in the Department’s Review of Employment Support Schemes published in 2013 the programmes will be developed in a manner that supports these twin objectives whilst providing a clear progression path for participants.
