DWP now sending 'mobile jobcentre' vans around the country to get people back to work

Chancellor Rachel Reeves wants to spot authorities spending connected DWP benefits autumn (Image: PA Wire/PA Images)

Jobcentre vans are acceptable to beryllium stationed extracurricular shot matches, mosques and retail parks successful areas with precocious unemployment rates arsenic portion of an inaugural to trim joblessness. These mobile jobcentres are being trialled arsenic an "inclusive and accessible" method to promote employment, says the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

Bolton Wanderers FC's lucifer time is 1 of the caller locations wherever a DWP van has been spotted. The Greater Manchester municipality is among respective areas with unemployment rates higher than the nationalist mean wherever these vans are being tested.

Mosques, retail parks and assemblage centres person besides been targeted by the mobile jobcentres. The vans are presently touring Flintshire, Denbighshire and Wrexham successful North Wales, and different volition soon beryllium launched successful Scotland covering Moray and the Highlands, according to the DWP.

Employment Minister Alison McGovern said that the Government aims to "see everyone, successful each country of the country, go amended off" by offering the accidental of a "good job".

The Toughsheet Community Stadium, location of Bolton Wanderers FC (Image: Getty)

She praised the Bolton mobile jobcentre during her sojourn to a children’s centre connected Monday, saying: "This mobile jobcentre is simply a cleanable illustration of an inclusive and accessible DWP solution that ensures nary 1 misses retired connected the occupation enactment they deserve."

The Wirral South MP continued: "Getting much radical backmost into enactment is simply a cardinal portion of our Plan for Change to present economical growth, make amended opportunities and enactment much wealth into the pockets of moving people."

This connection comes arsenic ministers purpose to trim the fig of working-age individuals who are unemployed successful an effort to alteration the benefits bill. Government figures bespeak that astir 2.8 cardinal radical are presently jobless owed to semipermanent illness, a important summation from 2 cardinal anterior to the pandemic.

In summation to initiatives designed to promote much radical to question employment, specified arsenic jobcentre vans, it is believed that ministers whitethorn beryllium contemplating stricter conditions for payment payments.