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The DWP have published plans to shut some job centres and colocate others with organisations such as Local Authorities. £180 million per year would be saved for the next 10 years. Click on the link to see the proposals for your job centre. Reasons are-

'...The way DWP services are delivered has changed significantly in recent years; for example 8 out of 10 claims for Jobseeker’s Allowance and 99.6% of applicants for Universal Credit submit their claims online.

Since 2010, 2.7 million more people are in work, youth unemployment has fallen by 366,000 and the employment rate is at a record high.

Jobcentres and bene t centres are covered by old building contracts which are now coming up for renewal. In the 20 years since these contracts were signed the welfare system has undergone large scale reform..'

Proposals include'...

-merging 78 smaller Jobcentre Plus offices in urban areas with larger ones

nearby

-co-locating around 50 Jobcentre Plus offices with local authorities or other

community services to provide joined-up services for the local

 -retaining over 700 existing offices

re-organising our corporate centre to make maximum use of 6 regional corporate hubs, including establishing a new office in central Manchester.'

 

Some Job Centres who are subject to specific consultations- respond by 28/2/2017- '..Edgware; Eltham; Finchley; Highgate; Leytonstone; Southall; and Westminster, Brighouse; Broxburn; Clay Cross; Coventry Tile Hill; Darwen; Hoylake; Liverpool Edge Hill and Liverpool Wavertree; Mountain Ash; Newton- le Willows; Peters eld; Pyle; Rotherham Goldthorpe; Sheffield Eastern Avenue; Shipley; Tunbridge Wells; Wellington; Whitstable and Herne Bay; and Wilmslow..'

 

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