AQW 49086/11-16 Written question to the Minister for Employment and Learning

To ask the Minister for Employment and Learning to detail the number of groups, whose client groups included those with ill mental health, learning and physical disabilities, lone parents and disadvantaged young people, that applied to the latest European Social Fund and were unsuccessful.

Asked by Claire Sugden MLA on 24 September 2015

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Tabled
24 September 2015
Answer due by
9 October 2015
Answered
8 October 201514 days after tabling
Department
Department for Employment and Learning
Priority question
No

Answer

The total number of organisations that applied to the ESF 2014-2020 Programme, but were unsuccessful, was 69. These organisations can be broken down according to the following strands of the ESF 2014-2020 Programme to which they applied:

Community and Family Support:4

Disability:9

Unemployed and Economically Inactive:27

Not in Employment, Education or Training:29

Many of these organisations have multiple client groups. Of these 69 organisations, the Department has been able to ascertain that 23 have a client group with mental health issues; 36 have a client group with learning/physical disabilities; 24 have a client group of lone parents; and 46 have a client group of disadvantaged young people.

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