The future starts now

FROM CHARLOTTE FERGUSSON
Arts & Cultural Services Officer, Westminster City Council

This might allay some of your suspicions about the Future Jobs Fund (AP211): at Westminster City Council we have used some of this funding to provide jobs in the local cultural sector as well as in our own libraries and archives. The Job Centre has referred the candidates to us, thereby guaranteeing that they have been unemployed for a minimum of 39 weeks and really are from lower income groups. So far we have placed ten young people in cultural jobs in places like the London Transport Museum and we are now discussing another round of placements with a new set of cultural partners.