Tánaiste announces additional €12 million for Labour Market Activation Fund [education.ie]
- Published: 05 August 2010
The Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Ms. Mary Coughlan, T.D., today, announced her allocation of an additional €12 million to the Labour Market Activation Fund.
The additional funding will support education and training programmes for at least 5,000 additional unemployed people and will bring the total number of participant places supported by the Fund to over 11,000 this year.
The Labour Market Activation Fund, launched by the Tánaiste in March, is designed to assist in the creation of innovative training and education provision by private, not-for-profit and public sector providers.
It is targeted at specific priority groups among the unemployed, namely the low skilled, and those formerly employed in declining sectors - construction, retail and manufacturing sectors – with particular emphasis on the under 35s and the long-term unemployed.
Following an open tender competition in which 370 tenders were received, contracts were initially awarded to 26 organisations across the private, not-for-profit and public sectors to support specific training and education programmes for the priority groups.
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