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Breaking Barriers supports refugees into employment through tailored programmes, working in partnership with the private, non-profit and public sectors to provide paid work placements and permanent job opportunities. Alongside this support we offer English language, IT and numeracy training.
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Situation
There are roughly 126,000 refugees living in the UK, with around 30% in London. Refugees face an unemployment rate of between 49-80%, compared to the national rate of just 4%. Breaking Barriers exists to support these refugees. The barriers they face in entering the job market include: long gaps on CVs due to the prolonged asylum process, insufficient English language skills, lack of understanding of UK workplace culture, lack of UK work experience and misplaced perceptions of hiring refugees.
Solution
We offer refugee clients bespoke employment, English language and IT training service which will helps unemployed clients into work and under-employed clients, many of whom are trapped in in-work poverty, into employment which is better paid and/or more suited to their skills and aspirations. Support includes English language, IT and numeracy, recognition of qualifications, CV writing, interview practice, attending workshops and paid work placements as well as permanent job opportunities.