Unemployment Unit

New Deal handbook 2000

The New Deal Handbook

A guide to your rights and responsibilities on the "New Deal" published by the independent Unemployment Unit & Youthaid

Published in July 2000

Published by Unemployment Unit & Youthaid
This version available in HTML format in January 2001

CHAPTER 1

Introduction

 

New Deal delivery arrangements

 

Role of the ES personal adviser

 

The "ONE" service

CHAPTER 2

Eligibility and recruitment

 

Essential eligibility conditions

 

Compulsory referral

 

Exemptions

 

Voluntary participation (early entry)

 

Referral to the initial New Deal interview

 

Unemployment protection insurance

CHAPTER 3

The Gateway

 

Who provides the Gateway?

 

Benefit status in the Gateway

 

Gateway content

 

The initial New Deal interview

 

Subsequent interviews

 

Gateway opportunities

 

What is voluntary and what is compulsory?

 

Signing off JSA during the Gateway

 

End of the Gateway

 

Gateway to Work

CHAPTER 4

Referral to New Deal options

 

Choice of options

 

The referral process

 

Financial implications of your choice of option

 

Transferring to another option

 

Support while on a New Deal option

CHAPTER 5

Full-time education & training option

 

Choosing the FTET option

 

What type of course can you take?

 

People who are already taking a part-time course

 

Transferring course

 

Minimum content of the option

 

Attendance requirements

 

What happens to your benefits?

 

Advice and support

 

Part-time workers

CHAPTER 6

Employment option

 

Entry to the option

 

Which jobs qualify for the subsidy?

 

Other ES programmes

 

Starting the job: financial help

 

What happens on the option?

 

Training on the Employment option

 

Self-employment

 

The New Deal for Musicians

CHAPTER 7

Environment task force and Voluntary sector options

 

Quality work experience

 

Suitability of the options

 

Starting on the VS or ETF options

 

What happens on the options?

 

Leaving early

 

After the placement

CHAPTER 8

Leaving the New Deal

 

Leaving early

 

Completing your option: the follow-through strategy

CHAPTER 9

Benefit sanctions

 

Penalties in the Gateway

 

New Deal Action Plan and Jobseeker’s Agreement

 

Sanctions on New Deal options

CHAPTER 10

People aged 25 and over

 

The New Deal for Long-term Unemployed People

 

The four stages

 

Employer subsidy

 

Education & training opportunities (ETO)

 

Work Based Learning for Adults/Training for Work

 

25+ pilots

CHAPTER 11

People aged 50 and over

 

Eligibility

 

Programme content

CHAPTER 12

Lone parents

 

Entry to the New Deal for people aged 18-24 or 25+

 

New Deal for Lone Parents

 

Pilots

CHAPTER 13

People with a disability

 

Entry to the New Deal for people aged 18-24 or 25+

 

New Deal for Disabled People

CHAPTER 14

Employment Zones

References

 

Index

 

© Unemployment Unit & Youthaid 2000

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Third edition by Balbir Chatrik and Paul Convery
ISBN 1-870563-63-8