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Metro Mayor Supports Scheme Offering Free Broadband for Jobseekers
Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram is lending his support to a new scheme that offers eligible jobseekers across the region 6 months of free broadband to help them with their search for work.
Funded by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the aim is to give eligible recipients the best possible chance to find work by tackling digital exclusion and removing barriers to employment.
Under the scheme, recipients are offered a voucher for six months of free unlimited broadband for the household – with a router and internet security packages included free of charge.
The package is the latest in an expansive programme of support offered across the Liverpool City Region to help people find decent, well-paid and secure work.
Since 2017, Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram’s Households into Work programme has helped more than 2,200 people across the city region with work coaching, interview preparation and emotional support and guidance. 20% of those on the programme have never worked before, while more than 250 have successfully found work.
Tackling poverty of opportunity and digital exclusion are key priorities for Mayor Rotheram and his administration. Following May’s elections, he announced plans to deliver a Young Person’s Guarantee: a promise of a job, training or apprenticeship opportunity to all under-25s in the city region within 6 months of leaving school or becoming unemployed.
Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region said:
Daniel Kasmir, Chief People and Procurement Officer at TalkTalk said:
Minister for Employment, Mims Davies said:
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