Council approves £8m invest to Get Bradford Working

Bradford Council has approved plans to invest almost £8m to tackle local unemployment. The £7.7m Get Bradford Working programme, believed to be the largest job creation fund in the country, was confirmed by the Council’s Executive. Get Bradford Working will seek to create hundreds of new jobs, apprenticeships and work experience placements across the Bradford district over the next two years, as well as encouraging more people to get better qualifications and improving the way skills are taught in our schools. Staff affected by planned redundancy programmes will also get the chance to benefit. Get Bradford Working is made up of four elements – a job creation fund, industrial centres of excellence, a routes into work scheme and a proposed apprenticeship training agency.  The largest portion of the funding, £4.5m, would be for the job creation fund which would see an estimated 350 jobs taken up over the next two years.