Best Practice – Individual Affordability
Affordable access to employment in Birmingham
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The West Midlands’ Passenger Transport Executive is working in close
cooperation with the local job agencies to improve the affordability of
employment for job seekers. Unemployed cannot afford to travel on public
transport to job interviews, and in case they get a job they cannot afford
travelling to the job. As a result the project called WorkWise was introduced in
Birmingham, England. It provides job‐seekers with free travel information with
public transport, free travel with public transport to job interviews and free
travel passes for the first month of work. An evaluation of the scheme showed
that 80% would not have obtained their job without the scheme!
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