PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Employment (9 July 2014)

Guidance for Jobcentre Plus staff will say that the following claimants will not be suitable for the supervised jobsearch pilots.

• Universal Credit claimants
• New style JSA claimants
• JSA Credits only claimants
• Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) claimants
• Postal claimants
• Claimants with Special Customer Records (these are held clerically so would present problems in contract management/ tracking for the purposes of the evaluation)
• Pregnant claimants, who have already produced a MATB1 to the Jobcentre (these will be within 11 weeks of their due date, so will not have time to complete the provision)
• Anyone currently not required to meet Actively Seeking Employment requirements
• Those attending Work Choice/ Residential Training Centres
• 18 year olds Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEETs, eligible for Work Programme at 3 months, would need to be identified for Supervised Jobsearch at day one – work coaches would not have sufficient information)
• Ex-offenders (eligible for Work Programme from day one)
• Claimants who are participating in voluntary work and part-time workers (as there are resource implications too large for the pilot, given small number)
• Claimants for whom travelling to the Supervised Jobsearch provider premises would be outside their daily travel to work time (90 minutes each way unless restrictions have been agreed)