Local development network seeks to take over jobs service 

JobPath, first introduced by the Department of Social Protection in 2014, aims to reduce the levels of long-term unemployment by selecting people, noted as being without work for an extended period of time, at random to enter its mentorship programme. File picture

An Irish network of local development partnerships has offered to provide a “comprehensive” public employment service post-Covid-19, which it says “offers greater value for money” than JobPath.

JobPath, first introduced by the Department of Social Protection in 2014, aims to reduce the levels of long-term unemployment by selecting people, noted as being without work for an extended period of time, at random to enter its mentorship programme.