One in six still jobless after finishing training courses

LESS than one in six people who undertook a range of free training courses for the unemployed are still out of work.

But while 42% are working and a similar proportion have gone on to further studies, the course providers have only obtained the current status of just over half the 10,163 people who completed some of the 54 prog-rammes under the Government’s €29.5 million Labour Market Activation Fund (LMAF).

The findings, which are contained in a consultants’ analysis of the Department of Education-run fund, show that the impact of employment generated from progress of participants to date is between €31.5m and €54.1m a year, with savings from people moving off the live register adding another €12m to €21m per annum to the benefits.