Project details
Portfolio: Education, skills and inclusion
Funding amount: £10 million
Funder: Department for Work and Pension (DWP)
Project status: Planned
Delivery partner: TBC
Key contact email: EI.Trailblazer@northeast-ca.gov.uk
Page last updated 28-07-2025
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Removing barriers to employment is a key component of our ambition to make the North East the home of real opportunity an delivering the draft Local Growth Plan.
This £10m investment will provide us with the opportunity to develop and test new and innovative ways to address the persistent challenges of economic inactivity. The aim of this activity is to harness untapped human potential to help grow our economy, raise living standards, reduce child poverty and create opportunities from which everyone can benefit.
The Trailblazer investment will deliver three key objectives:
- Maximise the reach, effectiveness and impact of the range of existing services that could support people who are economically inactive to participate in the labour market, by transforming how partners and services work together locally.
- Test new and innovative approaches to: Identifying and engaging people who are economically inactive and supporting people who are economically inactive to participate in the labour market; and
- Provide a platform for longer-term systems reform, to deliver a coherent, joined-up local work, health and skills offer.