The Civil Service currently has 23 Going Forward into Employment (GFiE) Life Chance Schemes in operation across Government, using innovative approaches to recruitment and providing Individuals from a wide range of backgrounds, who face barriers to employment, with opportunities and …
Lizzie Chatterjee, Deputy Director for Trade Strategy and Implementation at Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), shares her personal experience as a GFiE buddy to a prison leaver. One of the highlights of my professional life is to …
Fiona Ryland, Government Chief People Officer shares her recent experience from a visit to HMP Standford Hill, and her commitment and support for Prison Leaver Recruitment in the Civil Service. I recently visited a Prison with colleagues from the Going …
When we provide a Life Chance opportunity under Going Forward into Employment, we encourage investment in our colleagues. One such way departments support this ambition is through the use of Apprenticeships, helping to provide qualifications, support and training for the …
We would like to take this opportunity to wish all our followers a Happy New Year In our first blog of 2021, we reflect back on our journey in 2020, meet our latest team member and look forward to the …
This edition focuses on how Going Forward into Employment have extended their scheme to provide life-chance opportunities to a greater reach of the community.
Seeking new opportunities and fresh challenges? Read how the Going Forward into Employment Scheme can help you, as you help to deliver the Diversity & Inclusion Strategy and create a brilliant Civil Service.
Discover how the Going Forward into Employment scheme helped to support a Prison Leaver go from a feeling that their life was over to one of hope and opportunity.
Read how two government departments are collaborating together to provide real life-chance opportunities and how your department can benefit from the scheme.
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Going Forward into Employment is a government wide scheme aimed at providing life chances for people through the provision of opportunities in the civil service.
