Labour Market Partnership

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Craft Training Annual Awards

At Craft Training’s May 2024 awards ceremony Derry City and Strabane District Council was awarded the Collaborative Partnership of the year 2024, in acknowledgement of the Labour Market Partnership’s work with local partners to promote skills and employment throughout the City and District

The photo includes:

• Dr Lorna Warren – Head of Quality Improvement - Department for Economy
• Emma Quinn – LMP Project Officer
• Shonagh Higgenbotham - LMP Employment Support Officer

Let us help you get a job. With FREE training, qualifications, skilling and up-skilling, and all most important, building of confidence; Derry Strabane Labour Market Partnership (LMP) will help you get into work.

Action Plan 2024-25

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FREE Courses, Programmes and Qualifications 

• WHSCT Hospitality Employment Academy
• Kickstart Your Skills Programme
• Western Health and Social Care Trust Academy
• Local Hospitality Academy
• Taxi Academy
• Plant and Machinery Academy

Working together to reduce the disability employment gap

Find out how to

• Become an inclusive employer
• Tap into a larger talent pool to fill vacancies

Hear firsthand from

• Employers of people with a disability
• Employees who have a disability

Learn about

• Support available to you as an employer
• Making reasonable adjustments and positive action measure

DCSDC Labour Market Partnership with the Equality Commission NI and the Northern Ireland Union of Supported Employment are hosting an event. Click here to see more.

Derry Strabane Labour Market Partnership

Funded by Department for Communities (DfC), Derry and Strabane Labour Market Partnership (LMP) offer free training programmes to help people get into employment, training or full-time education by:

• Building confidence
• Delivering qualifications and/or licences 
• Providing experience and develop skills

Up and Coming Programmes and Support

• Succeed in Enterprise
• Kickstart Your Skills
• Kickstart Your Career
• Inclusive Employment Programme
• Teaching Assistant Employment Academy - for under qualified Teaching Assistants
• Teaching Assistant Employment Academy - for those looking to enter the Teaching Assistants sector (please note, this academy has been delayed)
• WHSCT Hospitality Employment Academy
• Childminding Employment Academy
• Hospitality Employment Academy
• Hospitality Connects  

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For further information, please contact the LMP Team [email protected]