A sum of €3.3 million are being allocated to the Employment and Training Corporation to launch new initiatives aimed at encouraging people who wanted to work, Finance Minister Tonio Fenech said today.

The ETC shall:

• Launch the Work Trial Scheme to integrate unemployed people in a workplace for 12 weeks so that they receive additional work experiences. ETC is aiming at to reach 500 people next year;

• Set up a new employment centre for youths in Birkirkara;

• Provide a trial scheme to give work experience to the unemployed and to those wanting to enter the labour market;

• Help with the payment of childcare to mothers who want to join training programmes;

• Enhance the advisory service to those seeking work;

• Revise the disabled persons policy and register;

• Provide personal assistance to the disabled at the workplace;

• Assist those who upgrade their workplaces to be employ severely disabled people;

• Extend the work scheme in the community for registered unemployed;

• Launch a campaign to explain the benefits of declared work; and

• Invest in laboratory of mobile computers to be used outside the classroom.

The budget is also committing to a new and ambitious programme of full‐time training for youths who are not working or being trained or in post‐secondary education.

They will have the opportunity to gain a qualification recognised by the Malta Qualifications Council. Youths who enrol in this project will also be given a stipend.

A further €6.2 million from the European Social Fund to implement the extensive programme of jobs for youths.

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