A plan for jobs

One year ago this week the Government launched a Plan For Jobs – a comprehensive and ambitious plan to help people back into work, earn more and gain the right skills so they can compete for the future jobs of tomorrow.

Supporting jobs is the right strategy economically and it is clear that the plan is working, with unemployment much lower than previously forecast and lower than in other countries, job vacancy levels higher than last year, employment growing, and household incomes protected.
 
The economic damage wrought by the pandemic has caused the worst recession in this country for 300 years. In response, the government has provided over £400 billion of support to protect jobs and businesses through employment support, cash grants for businesses, loans, tax deferrals and tax cuts.

Later this week, with my Norwich for Jobs colleagues I am launching a new campaign, "Our city, our recovery, our futures" to complement the Governments Plan for Jobs calling on young people and businesses to come together to enable Norwich to flourish beyond the Covid pandemic.

Young people and workplaces have both faced a lot of upheaval.  We don’t want the pandemic to extend into more damage to people’s jobs.  So Norwich for Jobs is taking action once again.  We know that this project can make a difference in our city because we’ve done it before.  

As we begin our recovery from the pandemic, it is clear to me that we need to come together and rebuild a city that we can all be proud of.  It’s about our city, our recovery and our futures. 

Businesses and young people can find out how to get involved with the campaign on Facebook or LinkedIn or Instagram 

https://www.facebook.com/NorwichFoundationForJobs/

https://twitter.com/NorwichforJobs

https://www.instagram.com/norwichforjobs/