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Creative Arts East: Skills For Jobs
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In this segment of the Community Chest programme, Dominik discusses the Skills for Jobs program delivered by Creative Arts East. Natalie Joad explains how the initiative uses creative activities to build employment skills for workless adults. Key moments include a look at the program's delivery in Norwich, the focus on pre-employment training such as CV writing, and the specific eligibility criteria for applicants.
Dominik hosts a segment on the Community Chest programme discussing the Skills for Jobs program, which is funded by the Learning and Skills Council. Creative Arts East operates as part of the Creative Learning in Partnership (Clip) consortium, delivering the program in Bedford and Norwich. In Norwich, the program is scheduled from October 8th to November 26th. The initiative targets workless adults from age 19 up to retirement age, specifically including lone parents, those over 50, and individuals on jobseekers' allowance or incapacity benefits.
Topics
- Details and funding of the Skills for Jobs program
- Course structure and learning objectives
- Eligibility and application process
Participants
- Dominik
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I think it gives a real kind of emphasis on those people who learn best through kind of doing and and seeing, you know, and and.
Workless adults aged 19 plus 19 to right through to retirement age. So it's people on incapacity benefits or jobseekers' allowance. It might be lone parents who are looking to get back into work. It might be for over 50s who, you know, have.