Employment Support for Older Workers - North & East London - Local Enterprise Partnership Area

This Provision is voluntary and will focus on a package of tailored support to address worklessness of unemployed individuals who are aged 50+. The provision will engage with the individual, identify and address barriers to work, using a range of specialist support/provision to move the Participant into sustained work at the earliest opportunity. Older people are a diverse and varied group with multiple issues and needs. Whilst the employment rate for older people is higher than ever before, there are some underlying problems; even though unemployment is less common amongst older people than younger people, older people have a higher propensity to be long-term unemployed than younger people. As well as being more likely to stay unemployed for longer, older people are more likely to become economically inactive if they become unemployed. The Contract Package Area (CPA) will cover North and East London and is based on the Local Authority boundaries covering the following boroughs: Enfield; Haringey; Hackney; Waltham Forest; Newham; Redbridge; Barking and Dagenham; Greenwich; Havering; and Tower Hamlets.