Tánaiste announces training providers approved for additional €12m under Labour Market Activation Fund [education.ie]
- Published: 20 August 2010
The Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Ms. Mary Coughlan TD, today, announced details of the training providers which have been approved for an additional €12 million under the Labour Market Activation Fund.
The additional funding will support education and training programmes for some 5,400 additional unemployed people and will bring the total number of participant places supported by the Fund to almost 12,000 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.
The Tánaiste said, 'I now intend to offer funding to 33 additional projects from a range of private and public training and education providers.
'This will bring to almost 60 the number of projects throughout the country being supported by the Labour Market Activation Fund in 2010.
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