Issue - meetings

The Board considered a report on progress made in relation to the two LAA Stretch Targets under it’s responsibility around supporting long term Workless residents into employment:

• Reducing the number of Haringey residents in receipt of incapacity benefits for six months or more, who had been helped into sustainable employment of at least sixteen hours per week for thirteen consecutive weeks or more.

• Supporting Job Seekers Allowance Claimants and one hundred and one Lone Parents into employment by June 2010.

It was noted that good progress had been made in relation to the second of the two targets. However, no long term Incapacity  Benefit (IB) claimants had been supported into long term employment. The Board was advised that other Boroughs had also been unable to meet this target and that this issue had been discussed at pan-London meetings.

Measures to address this were being considered and the Haringey Guarantee would also be used to assist a number of long term claimants back into work. The Board recognised the difficulties around achieving the target and noted the work that was being carried out in order to address this.  

RESOLVED:

To note the report.