Published on
"Supports and Services for Unemployed Job Seekers: Challenges and Opportunities in a Time of Recession" a report by the National Economic and Social Council (NESC)
Tuesday 9 August 2011
The Government welcomes the publication of NESC’s Report
Supports and Services for Unemployed Job Seekers: Challenges and Opportunities in a Time of Recession. The analysis is a valuable addition to our knowledge of national and international trends in social policies focused on combining social protection with a high level of unemployment.
The vision of a public employment service set out in the report – encompassing guidance, skill development, income security and supportive activation measures – is one that can help guide the Government as it builds the new National Employment and Entitlement Service.
The report underlines the fact that building a more effective public employment service, and the framing of a temporary response to unemployment, is a challenge not only to central government, but requires the coordinated and competent engagement of a wide number of actors – state agencies, local government, education and training providers, social partners, NGOs and social welfare recipients themselves.
Copies of the report are available on
www.nesc.ie ENDS
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