{"id":133829,"date":"2025-10-20T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/133829\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:01:08","slug":"connect-to-work-programme-to-support-people-to-find-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/133829\/","title":{"rendered":"Connect to Work programme to support people to find work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The latest figures for Oxfordshire, show that about 14% of those aged between 16 and 64, or about 64,000 people, are economically inactive. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Starting with eight people in its first month, the programme in Oxfordshire will spend more than \u00a34,000 on each job seeker, helping them to find and stay in work. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are already 40 people on the waiting list for the scheme, which will be delivered by Oxfordshire County Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Through a similar inclusive programme, Jenny Taylor found a job at council&#8217;s in-house print company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;It&#8217;s trying to find employment that&#8217;s flexible and understanding and willing to help you when you&#8217;re down on your luck. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve just moved into my first home after living with my parents for 36 years. Gaining that independence was extremely important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The programme is free to take part and non-compulsory. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Will Gardner, lead officer for Connect to Work for the county council, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s the biggest programme of its type that we&#8217;ve seen in Oxfordshire for some time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For it to work, people need to want to take part. That is fundamental.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest figures for Oxfordshire, show that about 14% of those aged between 16 and 64, or about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[79,18,19,17,227],"class_list":{"0":"post-133829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jobs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}