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of the action plan is to strengthen the linkage between social assistance system and employment
by three main activities:
- Persons, who are proper for working but don’t work and has applied and received social
assistance recently will be registered to İŞKUR’s system by related institutions.
- Those people directed from social assistance institutions to İŞKUR will be contacted;
their skill levels will be tested, they will be directed to training programs they need and
they will receive job seek support or will be directed to vacancies and placed to jobs.
- Special programmes will be developed by İŞKUR for them.
Following the action plan, by signing protocols between İŞKUR and related institutions legal
background is determined. Most of the activities have already started to be implemented (Most
of the activities already have been started, for later it is planned to continue). Consequently, (i)
İŞKUR will be covering more unemployed/inactive people, (ii) those who receive social services
and/or social assistances will be directed towards public employment services, and (iii) İŞKUR
will contact to those persons and develop appropriate programs for them. 1.868 of those people
who are directed by this way were placed to jobs; 2.433 of them attended to labour force training
courses and 12.095 of them benefited from guidance and counselling services. 1 The model to be
developed by the Operation will contribute to execution of that protocol.
In order to tackle with the problem stemming from the lack of coordination among social
assistances, social services and public employment services, as a second attempt, some of
services especially the ones related to social assistances were gathered under one ministry;
Ministry of Family and Social Policies was established by Decree Law numbered 633.
Despite the affirmative actions taken in the field to respond challenges identified above, there is
an imminent need for additional actions to promote social inclusion of the disadvantaged
persons. This operation will concentrate more on employment policies which have been included
in the policy options for social inclusion in recent years. In many countries, traditional policies
aiming at tackling poverty and social exclusion (such as social services and social assistances)
have been combined with employment policies especially for disadvantaged persons with a view
to direct them towards employment. Known as ‘active inclusion’, this approach underlines the
necessity of an integrated comprehensive strategy combining various supports with a view to
1 İŞKUR data base November 2011
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