Jobcentre Plus commissions or provides over 40 different services to support the education, employment, skills and training needs of those in receipt of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Incapacity Benefit (IB), Income Support (IS) and Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA). Many of these services will be available to problem drug users from the date that they feel able to share this information with their adviser. Below is a list of services currently in operation that may be available to problem drug users in receipt of the above benefits via a referral from their adviser.
P2W – (Progress2Work) a voluntary programme, available from day one of unemployment. It provides support for clients who have made sufficient progress in their recovery to be drug free or stabilised, but their history of problem drug use is likely to be a significant factor in preventing them from getting or keeping work.
P2W-LinkUP – an initiative that builds on the P2W model. It is a pilot that currently operates in almost half of Jobcentre Plus districts.
It targets specific disadvantaged groups of clients who face significant barriers in the labour market. This includes clients who have an offending background, including those under probation supervision, those with homelessness issues, and alcohol misusers.
for JSA. These relapse periods are at the discretion of the P2W caseworker and, as such, must be authorised and communicated to Jobcentre Plus.
Flexible New Deal – recovering/stabilised problem drug users can, where appropriate, join Jobcentre Plus programmes such as New Deal early. Early entry may be allowed at New Deal Personal Adviser’s discretion if they consider the client faces a severe disadvantage in their search for work and the New Deal is the most appropriate form of help. Clients on these programmes are given help in basic skills, development of soft skills, work experience and employer subsidies, through the advisory service. From October 2009 New Deal will be replaced with contracted provision for customers unemployed for more than 12 weeks.
Programme Centres – mainstream provision for jobseekers usually aged 25 and over, who have been unemployed for six months and receive a qualifying benefit, for example, JSA, Incapacity Benefit. The centres offer individually tailored job search assistance to clients in need of specific help in overcoming barriers to finding and keeping work. Clients who are referred to a Programme Centre could either be employer ready or, with a little additional support from the centre to overcome barriers, will quickly become job ready.
Early entry for recovering/stabilised problem drug users may be allowed at the personal adviser’s discretion if they consider the client faces a severe disadvantage in their search for work.
Work Trials – a trial period in an actual job, for up to 30 working days. These offer clients the opportunity to prove themselves to an employer without giving up the security of benefit, and to confirm that the job is appropriate before committing on a permanent basis.
Work Trials can also help employers overcome doubts about the suitability of a client. Work Trial is available to clients generally considered to be furthest from the labour market and includes disadvantaged groups such as problem drug and alcohol users.
Participants continue to receive their benefits in full and can also claim certain expenses.
Volunteering – DWP has recently introduced a volunteering brokerage scheme to encouraging unemployed customers to consider volunteering as an option on their way back to work. The scheme aims to match customers with a volunteering placement to help them develop their skills for work. Jobcentre Plus personal advisers discuss volunteering with customers and, if they choose to take this up, they are referred to a volunteering organisation that will find them a placement. As well as learning new skills and gaining experience, volunteering can help motivate customers. It also builds confidence and self-esteem and shows employers they can keep regular hours and work with others.
APPENDIX 3
Location Type Comments / Current Use Out of Hours
Cambridge: Mill House
Addaction premises
Addaction fixed site: comprehensive provision of needle exchange, group work, complementary therapy, counselling
Addaction prescribing clinics (twice weekly), 1:1 support, and access to BBV interventions. Priority groups: homelessness and physical health complications.
Clinics run until 6pm Cambridge: Hostels
and Nightshelter Satellite Assessments and Key Work 8am
assessments Emmaus
Satellite Addaction Clients / Emmaus clients seen at Emmaus where they reside
Addaction fixed site: comprehensive provision of needle exchange, group work, complementary therapy, counselling rooms, Prescribing clinics, BBV clinics
Thurs – by appointment
Soham: The Viva
Centre Satellite Assessments, Group Work, SPI, Key work By
appointment Littleport: Regal
Community Hall Satellite Assessments, SPI, Key work
Huntingdon Addaction premises
Addaction fixed site: comprehensive provision of needle exchange, group work, complementary therapy, counselling rooms, Prescribing clinics, BBV clinics
8pm Tues
St. Neots Addaction premises
Addaction fixed site: comprehensive provision of needle exchange, group work, complementary therapy, counselling
Satellite Doctor’s clinics, Assessments, Group Work, SPI, Key work
St. Ives: Town Hall Satellite Doctor’s clinics, Assessments, Group Work, SPI, Key work Yaxley: GP surgery Satellite Doctor’s clinics, Assessments, SPI, Key work
Wisbech Addaction
premises
Addaction fixed site: comprehensive provision of needle exchange, group work, complementary therapy, counselling
Satellite Assessments, Key Work, SPI, Concerned Others Group 8pm Tues
March: Pharmacy specific provision for Addaction, Church Hall
Satellite Doctor’s clinics, Assessments, Group Work, SPI, Key work
Whittlesey: GP surgery and
pharmacy specific Satellite Doctor’s clinics, Assessments, SPI, Key work
APPENDIX 4
Agency No. in Treatment
Salvation Army Greig House Alcohol Detoxification 1
Trust The Process Counselling 1
Phoenix Futures Alpha Residential Services 1 ADAPT Princess of Wales Treatment Centre 14
ADAPT BARLEY WOOD 2
ACTION ON ADDICTION - CLOUDS HOUSE 2
Ravenscourt 1
Lampton Court 2
Open Minds 1
Detox 5HG has not been referred to from the Cambridgeshire DAAT area – these have been referred from out of area but another agency that has used either our DAAT of residence, PCT or LA for it to come under our figures. We have therefore removed it from the above table. Cambridge MHT, CDT Fenland and Mill House are not T4 providers this is a data recording error.
Agency Planned Unplanned Referred On
Salvation Army Greig House Alcohol Detoxification 1 0 0
ADAPT Princess of Wales 4 2 1
Clouds 0 1 0
Lampton Court 1 1 0
Open Minds 0 1 0
Phoenix 0 1 0
Ravenscourt 0 1 0