The Learning & Development Institute, founded in 1969, is the professional body representing members concerned with Learning and Talent Development in Ireland.
This new Government Pathways to Work Strategy is designed to drive employment recovery in Ireland. It comprises a key element of the Governments Recovery Plan, which aims to exceed pre-crisis employment levels by 2024. The Strategy is framed against the background of the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic, Brexit, and ongoing changes in the nature of work.
Key commitments of the Strategy include:
• Reducing youth employment from 44% to 12.5%. As part of a reinforced Youth Guarantee, a special package of supports will be provided for young people. This will comprise 50,000 further and higher training places, delivering 10,000 apprenticeship registrations each year, and providing recruitment subsidies for employers who take young people off the Live Register.
• A new Work Placement Experience programme will be established with 10,000 paid quality work placements for people who have been unemployed for six months. Some 4,000false
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