Claire Kerrane
Question:217. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of the interdepartmental review into community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27988/20]
View answerThursday, 1 October 2020
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The Community Employment (CE) programme is a community centred labour market initiative established for the purposes of social inclusion and activation, to help long-term unemployed people and other vulnerable groups to enter the workforce by breaking their experience of unemployment.
In early 2019, the Government agreed to establish an Interdepartmental Group (IDG) to explore how social inclusion schemes might be organised going forward.
A number of meetings of the IDG took place and a series of follow-up meetings were undertaken with the relevant Departments. There was also a stakeholder consultation process which resulted in a number of submissions that were included in the wider review.
The final IDG report is currently with my Department for consideration and will be submitted to Government in due course.