In France, we currently deliver the following programmes:
- CIBLE – to support people from a variety of backgrounds including mature aged people, young people and people with health conditions into work.
- Suburbs of Hope – to assist 16 to 25 year olds from disadvantaged suburbs to find a job, create or acquire a business or undertake skills training. This contract is delivered in partnership with the Directorate General for Employment and Vocational Training.
- Unedic – supporting long-term unemployed people who require intensive support. This programme is an extension of our initial contracts in Lille and Rouen through which we assisted people at risk of long-term unemployment back into work.
- Atouts Cadres – supports executives and highly skilled professional people to find new employment or start their own business. Delivered in consortium with Var (part of the Ranstad group), we provide services in the Paris area (Seine et Marne and Essonne, Seine Saint Denis and Val de Marne, Hauts de Seine), Bretagne and Aquitaine.
- PARE (Prestation d’Accompagnement Régional vers l’Emploi) - assists people with disabilities to overcome physical and social constraints, build on their capabilities and move into work. This regional programme is conducted by AGEFIPH, a private association dedicated to helping people with disabilities, which partners with public bodies to assist them in achieving employment policy objectives. Ingeus delivers this programme in the Ile-de-France region, specifically in Seine-Saint-Denis.
Formerly, we also assisted people to move towards independence through the following programmes in France:
- Accompaniment of people with health conditions – this programme was delivered for two years alongside AGEFIPH (a private organisation which serves people with disabilities) and aimed to assist people who had been on health related benefits for an extended period.
- Diagnostics and assessment of people on the minimum unemployment benefit to assess their employability and refer them to appropriate services.
- Energies Emploi 92 – a programme with the regional Parisian council, Hauts-de-Seine, to deliver employment services for long-term unemployed people, at least half of whom had been unemployed for between two and six years. This programme required us to work closely with community organisations and develop strong links with employers to access job vacancies.
- In 2007, we were awarded a contract with the National Ministry of Employment to assist 800 young graduates in the Haute-Normandie to find work. The characteristics of this client group included lack of confidence, lack of work experience, reliance on parents and family for financial, emotional and physical support, and peer group pressure against employment.
- Maison de l'Emploi des Hauts de Bievre – a contract to intensively assist, collectively and individually, unskilled young people between the ages of 18 and 30 to gain sustainable employment. Our delivery model was based on enhancing each individual’s strengths and capabilities to give them the skills to job search independently.
