Finding Work

The single most effective route out of poverty is employment. However, for many people, a successful route to sustainable employment involves tackling multiple disadvantages such as low skills language barriers and negative employer perceptions.

A4e has delivered welfare to work provision in the UK since 1986, delivering both niche and mainstream employability training services.  We have now evolved into the largest provider of welfare to work provision in the UK -  last year we helped to move 11,000 people into employment.

Our contracts include New Deal, Pathways to Work and Connect to Work (New Deal for Disabled People).

Since 2005 we have also delivered welfare to work provision internationally - we currently deliver services on behalf of the French, German, Indian, Israeli and Polish governments. Find out more about our work around the world.

We also deliver a variety of special programmes - niche, community-based provision via the European Social Fund.

Since 1997, the UK Government’s approach to welfare to work delivery has evolved from an emphasis on designing services to meet the needs of specific client groups - e.g. New Deal for Lone Parents, through to bespoke services that are tailored to meet the specific needs of each individual client - as recommended by the Freud Review and as will be seen in the future Flexible New Deal delivery.

A4e is at the forefront of service design - within the UK, we have worked closely with Department for Work and Pensions to inform the design of client led welfare to work provision such as Flexible New Deal. On a global scale, we recently supported the Australian government in a consultation involving the reform of employability training for disabled people.

If you’d like to know more about these services please get in touch or call us on 0800 345 666