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Sector-based work academy programme: learning provider guidance
How learning providers can help Jobcentre Plus and employers fill job vacancies more efficiently through Sector-based work academy programmes.
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Sector-based work academy programmes (SWAPs) are designed to help meet employers’ immediate and future recruitment needs as well as to recruit a workforce with the right skills to sustain and grow their business.
A SWAP can last up to 6 weeks and has 3 main components:
- pre-employment training – relevant to the needs of the business and sector
- a work experience placement – of great benefit to both the individual and a business
- a guaranteed job interview
This guide sets out how learning providers can work with Jobcentres to help deliver SWAPs to benefit claimants in England and Scotland. SWAPs do not operate in Wales.
This guidance complements the Sector-based work academy programme: employer guide.
Published 3 January 2024