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support service in good time and provide Employers need to be willing to engage with the facilities on site. There needs to be adequate financial backup to allow those facing redundancy to reorient themselves to labour market demand. Good cooperation between employers, regional development agency and programme support contractors is a prerequisite for the support programme to be effective at enterprise level. Integration of provision and

The employer has freedom of choice in selecting a careers advice provider from an approved list. The support available is flexible and not restricted in terms of timing, allowing employees to feel they have time to consider the options. Financial support is available (within limits) to allow employees facing redundancy to retrain or enhance their existing skills. Enhancement to longer established ‘rapid reaction’ support in the region. T

The redundancy support service has been available for some time, but recent efforts at raising its profile have involved media promotion and employer workshops on managing restructuring that will help the support be more widely taken up. Regional support framework that delivers embedded careers advice and guidance to redundant/at risk workers in ‘in-scope’ companies as an enhancement to a nationally funded programme. The timing of the p

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