Image: Liverpool Lime Street Station by Gareth Jones
Background
Economies for Healthier Lives is a collaborative project with the aim of strengthening relationships between economic development and health in Liverpool City Region. It is led by Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and funded by the Health Foundation, who have identified the provision of 'services that meet people's health and economic needs together' as an important area for action at local and regional level.
Review
As part of Economies for Healthier Lives, we have carried out a review of health-promoting employment support programmes in Liverpool City Region, which are explored by considering three current programmes in detail: the Work and Health Programme, Households into Work, and Ways to Work. These are programmes that aim to provide more intensive support than mainstream Jobcentre Plus provision, to people who may have multiple and complex issues preventing them from seeking or sustaining employment.
The purpose of the review is to consider the strengths of existing provision and ways it might be improved, in order to inform future national, city-regional and local policy and commissioning, and to make recommendations for others looking to undertake a similar review of employment support programmes within a local or city-regional area.
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