{"id":114317,"date":"2025-09-04T15:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/114317\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:58:06","slug":"surrey-to-receive-9-8m-to-help-sick-and-disabled-back-into-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/114317\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey to receive \u00a39.8m to help sick and disabled back into work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A total of \u00a39.8m will be spent across Surrey by 2030 to help sick and disabled people back into the workforce, the government has announced. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Applicants are to receive help from employment coaches and job matching services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">It is hoped that help will be offered to 2,500 people in Surrey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The funds are part of a national \u00a3338m Connect to Work programme, which hopes to reach 300,000 people across England and Wales over five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">According to the Department for Work and Pensions, people in Surrey can refer themselves to the scheme, or be referred by healthcare professionals, local authorities or voluntary groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Matt Furniss, Surrey County Council&#8217;s cabinet member for economic growth, said: &#8220;This investment will make a real difference to residents across Surrey who face significant barriers to employment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;Connect to Work will provide help to disabled people, people with health conditions and those with complex barriers to employment, to get into and stay in work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;Helping Surrey residents to access good work and thrive in employment is a key part of our commitment to ensuring no one is left behind and will help to further support the continued growth of our regional economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A total of \u00a39.8m will be spent across Surrey by 2030 to help sick and disabled people back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[84,1371,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-114317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}