Over the coming months, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will shut down 36 Job Centres, including two in Greater Manchester.
The sites being closed were originally established to ensure social distance measures were observed during the Covid-19 pandemic as "temporary additions". The closures will not affect the level of service provided to claimants or impact the availability of face-to-face appointments, according to the DWP.
It is understood that no staff will be made redundant as a result of the closures and will instead be moved to work at other Jobcentres nearby their previous locations. Currently, the DWP has over 600 permanent Jobcentres across the country, the Mirror reports.
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In a statement, a DWP spokesman said: "We no longer need the temporary space we acquired during the pandemic to accommodate social distancing. To continue providing our essential employment support and other services in a way that is cost-efficient for the taxpayer, we are phasing out these temporarily leased sites.
"Customers will return to being served by their established Jobcentre and there will be no reduction in the number of Work Coaches serving customers as a result."
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Full list of Job Centre sites to close
- Bellshill - ML4 3FB
- Birmingham - B37 5TP
- Bury Manchester - BL9 0QQ
- Cardiff - CF10 2HQ
- Chelmsford - CM2 6FD
- Chester - CH1 1HA
- Chesterfield - S40 1SA
- Chichester - PO19 8GR
- Coventry - CV6 6GE
- Crawley - RH11 9PT
- Derby - DE21 4RX
- Derby - DE1 2PR
- Dudley - DY1 1PQ
- Edinburgh - EH1 1SB
- Folkestone - CT20 1DP
- Kirkcaldy - KY1 1NU
- Liverpool - L7 9NJ
- London Aldgate Tower Hamlets - E1 8EU
- London Ealing - W5 5JN
- London Mitcham - SM4 5PQ
- London Wembley - HA9 7BH
- Manchester Stretford - the additional space will be decommissioned and potentially repurposed - M32 9ED
- Middlesbrough - TS1 1HR
- Newton Abbott - TQ12 2DT
- North Shields - NE29 6AR
- Nuneaton - CV11 5TZ
- Peterborough - PE1 1YN
- Sheffield - S1 4BY
- Southend - SS1 1LQ
- Stoke on Trent - ST1 4FA
- Swinton - M27 4BH
- Thornaby (Stockton-on-Tees) - TS17 6BJ
- Watford - WD17 1AF
- West Bromwich - B70 8RT
- Woking - GU21 6AZ
- Worthing - BN11 3BP
