Profiling to show risk of lengthy unemployment

A PROFILING system to identify those at risk of long-term unemployment when they first seek social welfare is to be introduced next year, Social and Family Affairs Minister, Mary Hanafin, has announced.

“Accurate and relevant profiling for people who sign on the live register can lead to early, targeted interventions for those most likely to become long-term unemployed.

“Prevention of long-term unemployment must be our priority and profiling facilitates referral for intervention very early in the claim cycle,” she said yesterday.