 In June 2006, Ingeus GmbH formed a partnership with the ARGE (Arbeitsgemeinschaft), the City of Nuremberg’s joint body of the regional administration and public employment service, to assist people who have been unemployed for at least one year.
Ingeus is supporting 2,000 unemployed people over a two-year period, and will be working closely with each of them for up to 10 months. After placing people into a job, each person receives another six months intensive in-work support.
Ingeus GmbH has successfully reached the contractual target of 40% job placements and even exceeded this margin having 47% job placements by the end of the first contract year. The second year has also started successfully, proving the great partnership of both Ingeus and the ARGE.
 Similar to the contract with the regional council in Paris (Hauts-de-Seine), payments are made when people reach three months and six months in a job. Outcomes from this programme have exceeded all contractual targets and we are in the process of expanding these services to other cities in Germany.
In addition to the ARGE partnership pilot programme, Ingeus GmbH won a contract with the Bundesagentur für Arbeit, BA (Federal Employment Office) in May 2007. Over a period of almost three years, Ingeus will work with 1,400 short-term unemployed people who have been without work for no longer than four weeks. Jobseekers join the programme for between six and eleven months. The programme started in July 2007 and is a BA model testing innovative approaches of reintegrating unemployed people in cooperation with a private provider. The project takes place in six different German cities. Providers could only tender for one city at a time and Ingeus GmbH tendered for and won in Nuremberg.
In October 2007, Ingeus GmbH opened an office in Munich launching a new pilot project in cooperation with the ARGE Munich, the City of Munich’s joint body of the regional administration and public employment service. Over a period of two years, Ingeus will be supporting 4,000 long-term unemployed people following the Nuremberg model. Here, too, the great partnership between Ingeus GmbH and the ARGE Munich has led to a successful programme start with a well organised referral process and a referred number of jobseekers exceeding the original target.
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