"Next Move"
'Next Move' is a FÁS funded Community Employment Scheme
sponsored by Co Sligo LEADER Partnership Co Ltd.
This Community Employment Scheme was originally called REO (Re-entering Employment Opportunities), which began in the year 2000 and has now changed direction and name.
'Next Move' CE scheme was developed as part of Sligo LEADER Partnership Company Social Inclusion Programme strategy 2004-2006 wherein the Company identified the priority target groups for pre-employment and community development supports.
The Partnership strategy is focusing on 'those most distanced from the labour market' and, 'individuals marginalised within the community'.
This strategy has informed the identification of priority jobs under the FÁS Community Employment Programme. The Partnership has successfully deployed the resources of its CE Programme in a diverse schedule of work, which includes the following specific actions:
Entrepreneurial Skills Program - Business Start Up
Administrator
Administration with Sligo Community Forum
Event Organiser/Rural Transport Dispatcher
Aims of the 'Next Move' CE Program
To provide support to long term unemployed people to progress into self-employment
To support the delivery of the Social Inclusion Program through the provision of resources for community development, activities for older people, and early school leavers
To encourage the participation of 'difficult to reach' target groups through the provision of a targeted outreach recruitment road show.
Program Mission Statement
“To provide targeted supports to those most distanced from the labour market and from local community support networks, to access information; advice; training; employment and enterprise opportunities thus enabling them to participate more fully in mainstream programmes”
Sligo LEADER Partnership - Company Mission Statement
"Guided by principles of equality, social justice and respect to create opportunities through a partnership of community, statutory and social partner bodies, which enable and empower those who are most socially excluded to realise their potential and participate more fully in society."
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