About New Work

Currently in its scoping phase, the New Work project is setting out to design a solution that will guide people at real and perceived risk of redundancy towards new, long-term work opportunities.

This project will target people who have been given notice of redundancy, those directly at risk, those generally at risk (declining sectors), people who have recently been made redundant and people who have been out of work for less than 6 months in Cornwall. Broadening its scope, New Work may also reach out to people lacking the relevant skills to be employed in the changing economic landscape.

New Work aims to provide these groups with the right support, in the right place, at the right time. Using a creative, people-centred methodology, New Work aims to break down the barriers that prevent people facing redundancy from accessing new skills and employment opportunities.

Broadening its scope, New Work will also be reaching out to people lacking the relevant skills to be employed in the changing economic landscape.

The project will work with the people of Cornwall to demonstrate how they can achieve personal success and nurture individual talents in positive ways that are relevant to the economy and society of modern day Cornwall. Using a creative, people-centred methodology, New Work aims to break down the barriers that prevent people facing redundancy from accessing new skills and employment opportunities.

The project, which is being led and co-designed by SEA Communications, is currently undergoing a process of analysing who is at risk of redundancy and what happens to people once they are given their notice. SEA is researching all sorts of factors that put people at risk of redundancy from bad transport and lack of infrastructure to declining work sectors.

A detailed diagnosis of the employment landscape will reveal just how many of the population are at risk, identify the enablers that will help people back into new work and consider how intervention and skills provision could improve future job prospects.

At present a national survey has revealed that only 35% of job vacancies are advertised through the Job Centre, so New Work aims to find out where other employment opportunities are being communicated and design new ways to signpost people towards these jobs.