A Kickstart gateway will process the application for the employer with the DWP and then add any new job placements to their existing grant agreement. The Kickstart Scheme aims to respond to all applicants within one month of an application for the Scheme being submitted.
The response will confirm the decision on whether the application has been successful or not. New job placements under the Kickstart Scheme should not begin until there has been approval under the scheme and a grant agreement has been processed by the DWP or Kickstart Scheme gateway. Once the grant agreement has been approved a process for hiring the new recruits begins with the DWP.
The employer will be required to produce job descriptions that will be shared with the DWP to be used by work coaches at JobCentre plus. The work coaches will identify candidates for the role and make selections for interview.
Following the initial identification phase, the employers will then have the opportunity to conduct interviews with all candidates identified by the work coaches at JobCentre Plus. The employer will make a decision on the preferred candidate following the interview process. An employer can continue to add additional job placements under the grant agreement without applying again. Employers will need to contact the DWP or the Kickstart gateway to add the additional placements.
The additional placements will be assessed to ensure they fulfil the eligibility of the scheme. If you want to learn more about the kickstart scheme or the skills agenda in general then please take a look at the Higher and Degree Apprenticeships Conference , taking place in Central London on 14th December below:. Sign Up. Visit our Access to Work pages to find out more.
Skip to main content. Tell us whether you accept cookies We use cookies to collect information about how you use this site. Accept all cookies Set cookie preferences. This page is also available in Welsh Cymraeg. What is Kickstart? Find a Kickstart gateway to help you apply. Aged ? Find out how Kickstart could help you. What are the potential benefits to your business? Our aim is to offer a total of 20 Kickstart opportunities by the end of the year.
What you need to know about applying There is no minimum on the number of vacancies you can apply for which means businesses of all sizes can benefit from the scheme. DWP aims respond to your application within one month, but this can take longer if DWP requires additional information from your organsiation.
If your application meets the requirements of the scheme, you will receive a letter with a grant agreement. This agreement will include what your company has agreed to provide, and how much funding you will receive from the Kickstart Scheme.
If your application does not meet the requirements of the scheme you can submit a new application with further information. There is no limit to the number of times you can apply for funding, however there is no legal right of appeal. After you have agreed and signed your grant agreement, you will need to provide job descriptions for each of the job placements, including what candidates need to do to apply. If you have applied through a Gateway, they will send the job descriptions to DWP. DWP work coaches will then match suitable candidates to the job placements, and you will be able to interview the candidates matched to your job placements.
As the employer, you can choose whom to employ but you will only obtain funding if you appoint a young person that DWP has introduced. You will receive initial setup costs when you have confirmed the young person has started work, is enrolled on your payroll and is being paid through PAYE.
DWP will use information from HMRC to check that the young person is still employed and will pay the grant in monthly arrears. DWP may contact you or the young person during the job placement to check what employability support has been offered. This is to make sure the young person has the best experience from the scheme. If you applied through a Gateway, DWP will send the funding to the Kickstart Scheme gateway and they will be responsible for sending the funding to you. You need to tell your Kickstart gateway when the young person starts their job placement.
Applications that fail to meet the financial due diligence standards cannot be resubmitted except through agreement between you and an approved Gateway Direct where they will act as the employer on your behalf. However, applications that have not supplied sufficient evidence that the jobs are additional or that the employability support will be of sufficient quality can revise their application and resubmit. Feedback from DWP indicates that a lack of information demonstrating that the jobs are additional and insufficient detail on the wraparound employability support that will be provided to the Kickstarter are common themes among rejected applications.
If this is the case for your application, you may be able to review your application and apply again through:. DWP has published tips for a successful Kickstart application, which you can find here. DWP continues to process Kickstart applications and job descriptions for approved placements.
Employers whose placements have been approved can postpone them to a later date due to further lockdown restrictions but can also begin the placements if they wish to do so. This was not initially made clear so many companies started advertising Kickstart roles on online platforms like LinkedIn and Totaljobs.
But last month DWP warned companies not to advertise the roles, after This is Money brought the listings to light. The DWP said: 'Young people will be referred into the new roles through their Jobcentre Plus work coach with the first Kickstarts expected to begin at the start of November. Companies will still have to supply a job description.
The DWP said: 'Once the application is approved, we will need detailed job descriptions to ensure we are identifying the right young people for the job. It will be delivered by the DWP and will initially be open until December , with the option of being extended. The Labour Party government introduced a similar scheme more than a decade ago. Its Future Jobs Fund was introduced in October to support the creation of subsidised jobs for unemployed young people.
It was aimed at year olds in receipt of Job Seeker's Allowance. Jonathan Reynolds, Shadow Secretary of the DWP, has slammed the government's handling of Kickstart and claimed it is letting down young people. Reynolds, the Labour MP for Stalybridge and Hyde, told This is Money: 'Britain is in the midst of a jobs crisis and the Government must do all it can to safeguard livelihoods and protect jobs.
Commenting on Kickstart's delayed announcement, he said: 'Once again, this Government's bluster has let young people down. The reality on the ground is yet more confusion for jobseekers and employers. Reynolds added: 'When the Kickstart Scheme was announced, Labour argued that it didn't meet the scale or scope of the unemployment challenge in the way that Labour's successful Future Jobs Fund did.
Statistics published on Gov. It was scrapped by the coalition Government in May as part of saving measures to address the UK deficit. It was widely reported that David Cameron dismissed the FJF as 'expensive, badly targeted and did not work'. Paula Gardner: Thinks the premise is good but worries it might miss the mark. Paula Gardner, business psychologist and founder of The Redundancy Recovery Hub says: 'I think the premise behind it is good, but the worry is that the same thing will happen as did with the Jobs Retention Fund with employers using it as a form of unpaid labour, and people moving back into unemployment at the end.
She added: 'I would prefer to see something like the more structured apprenticeships schemes prioritised. Every apprentice gets a mentor who checks on both their coursework and that they are being treated fairly and not exploited.
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