OK! I think I can see what this is!
It is a ‘sbwa’ more commonly know as a sector based work academy which is designed to help long term unemployed people back into work by encouraging employers (who would normally not consider long term unemployed people)to give them a guaranteed interview & hopefully a job.
Basically what happens is that a training provider trains a group of long term unemployed in basic skills like customer service, basic food hygene, manually handling. The subjects covered are the ones the employer has said would help applicants get the job. This is normally a quick course that takes a couple of weeks. Then the Jobcentre arranges for those people to have a short period of Work Experience with an employer who has vacancies. This is because many of them have either not worked before, or may have never worked and have stated that this is holding them back from finding a job. In return the employer guarantees to interview those who successfully complete the two elements, and hopefully employs them! This is a voluntary programme for the unemployed.
Feel free to criticise this programme but I have seen it working very well with employers taking on people who they would not normally touch with a barge pole. You may scoff at some of the ideals behind this but after meeting long term unemployed people who have got jobs through this scheme it never ceases to amaze me how getting a job changes their whole persona, even if that job is one that many others would want to do!
