Great Yarmouth to benefit from Working Neighbourhoods Fund grant

Great Yarmouth to benefit from Working

Neighbourhoods Fund grant

13 November 2009

Tony Wright MP has welcomed a grant of over £200,000 for Great Yarmouth as part of a Working Neighbourhoods Fund of £40 million being handed out to local authorities across the country.

The Government has decided to establish a new Working Neighbourhoods Fund as part of a concerted drive to get people off welfare and into work, and giving them the skills they need to do so.

While the number of long-term jobless families across the country has been reduced by 13 per cent over the last ten years, this funding demonstrates the Government’s commitment to tackling entrenched worklessness and steps up action to support the remaining 73,000 back into work.

Tony said:

‘This grant is excellent news for Great Yarmouth and will be warmly welcomed by all. This money will help to get people into work so that they can contribute to the local economy and help make themselves and Great Yarmouth better off.

‘Tackling long-term worklessness is not easy. Some people have complex circumstances or face particular challenges, but this funding shows the Government is determined to do more to help those who haven’t had a job. They need to know they have not fallen through the net or been written off.’

Communities Secretary, John Denham MP said:

‘Even in the downturn hundreds of thousands of people are getting jobs. This funding shows that even those out of work for years are not being left behind as they were under the Tories.

‘Now more than ever people need to know the system is fair and that we are doing everything we can to give every person a fair chance to realise their potential in life.’