A £5.2 million pilot to help those on Universal Credit into training for health and social care careers, that is informing future policy decisions, has been forced to significantly scale back target numbers.
Covid-19 disruption and numbers of staff walking away from the profession due to low levels of pay have hampered progress. But project bosses say social media is now helping drive recruitment as it enters its final four months.
City College Peterborough and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority launched the health and care sector work academy in March 2018 before the pandemic hit, as a Department for Work and Pensions pilot.
It aims to encourage people who were out of work or on low incomes and on Universal Credit to fill gaps in the health and care industry.
