Over a two-year period, we supported 2,000 unemployed people and worked closely with each of them for up to 10 months as well as providing six months intensive support once they were in work. We successfully exceeded the contractual target of 40% job placements by the end of the two year contract, and this formed the foundation of our future success in Germany.
We have since expanded to deliver services to short- and long-term unemployed people in Munich, Berlin and Wetzlar and single parents in Nuremberg.
We currently provide:
- AIDA - a programme for parents in Nuremberg. Unique features of this contract include on-site child care for parents while they access our services and specialist single parent advisors who support parents to source local childcare while they are attending interviews and once they are in work.
- Berlin Treptow-Köpenick – a programme to assist long-term unemployed people in Berlin. The challenges faced by jobseekers in Berlin include an unemployment rate that is significantly higher than the national average, a large percentage of jobs are short-term, and low labour market growth. From November 2008, we commenced delivering a programme which will assist up to 2,000 clients over a two-year period.
- Young people – also in Berlin, we are currently providing a small contract to assist young people to enter the workforce. This is a particularly important programme given the labour market conditions and number of unemployed youth in Berlin.
- Lahn-Dill region – most recently, we commenced a contract with a consortium of local and regional public employment bodies to assist long-term unemployed people in the regional city of Wetzlar.
Formerly in Germany, we also held contracts with the federal employment office in Nuremberg to work with short-term unemployed people who had been out of work for no longer than four weeks, as well as a project in partnership with the Munich ARGE to assist 4,000 long-term unemployed people over a period of two years.
