Contracts: Working Links to deliver Work Choice programme

Employment and skills specialists Working Links is to deliver Work Choice, the government’s new programme to help disabled people get into work in five areas across the UK.

Employment and skills specialists Working Links is to deliver Work Choice, the government’s new programme to help disabled people get into work in five areas across the UK.

Working Links will implement the programme in five areas - West of England, Gloucester, Wiltshire and Swindon; Surrey, Sussex and Kent; North, Mid and South-East Wales; Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Havering, Barking and Dagenham, City and East London; and Leicestershire and Northamptonshire.

Work Choice replaces the existing schemes of Workstep, Work Preparation and Job Introduction Scheme from October 2010.

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