# source/domain-registers/finding-work-and-unemployment.v1.yaml

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    register_version: life-course-domain-register.v1
    pack_id: pack-3-work-money
    domain: finding-work-and-unemployment
    title: Finding work and unemployment
    status: population_complete
    observed_at: "2026-08-08"
    link_receipts: evaluation/link-receipts/pack-3-work-money-2026-08-08
    acquisition: &acquisition
      mode: linked_reference_only
      snapshots_acquired: false
      source_response_bodies_retained: false
      publication_allowed: false
      rights_policy: link_and_summarize_source_family_decisions_recorded
    _source_defaults: &source_defaults
      access_method: public_html
      version_model: live_service_guidance
      update_cadence: check_before_each_use
      rights_basis: linked_reference_summary_only_source_family_decision_recorded
      observed_at: "2026-08-08"
      checksum: not_applicable_no_snapshot
    _family_defaults: &family_defaults
      primary_jurisdictions: [England]
      specialist_review: required
    route_sources:
      - <<: *source_defaults
        id: finding-work-scotland-handoff
        jurisdiction: Scotland
        title: Finding a job in Scotland
        owner: Scottish Government
        authority_role: scotland_job_support_discovery_handoff
        resource: https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job
        coverage: Routes people to current Scottish job-search and employment-support services.
        exclusions: Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision.
      - <<: *source_defaults
        id: finding-work-wales-handoff
        jurisdiction: Wales
        title: Employment support in Wales
        owner: Welsh Government
        authority_role: wales_job_support_discovery_handoff
        resource: https://www.gov.wales/employment-support
        coverage: Routes people to current Welsh employability and skills support.
        exclusions: Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision.
      - <<: *source_defaults
        id: finding-work-northern-ireland-handoff
        jurisdiction: Northern Ireland
        title: Employment in Northern Ireland
        owner: Northern Ireland Executive
        authority_role: northern_ireland_job_support_discovery_handoff
        resource: https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment
        coverage: Routes people to current Northern Ireland employment services and rights.
        exclusions: Does not establish eligibility, an employment relationship or a benefit decision.
    families:
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: use-public-job-search
        title: Use public job search
        aliases: [find a job online, government job vacancies]
        description: Search current public vacancy listings and follow the named employer's application route.
        situations: [A person wants to find and apply for paid work.]
        user_needs: [Use an accountable vacancy service while checking the actual employer and application terms.]
        dependency: recruiting-employer
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: use-public-job-search-primary
          title: "Find a job"
          owner: "Department for Work and Pensions"
          authority_role: great_britain_public_job_search_service
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/find-a-job
          coverage: "Provides the public Great Britain vacancy search and application handoff."
          exclusions: "Does not recommend an employer or guarantee that a vacancy or offer is genuine."
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: get-jobcentre-support
        title: Get Jobcentre support
        aliases: [contact Jobcentre Plus, work coach help]
        description: Contact the applicable public employment service for work-search, claim or appointment support.
        situations: [A person needs help from a Jobcentre or employment-service adviser.]
        user_needs: [Find the right service and retain appointment, claim or referral outputs.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: get-jobcentre-support-primary
          title: "Contact Jobcentre Plus"
          owner: "Department for Work and Pensions"
          authority_role: great_britain_jobcentre_contact_service
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/contact-jobcentre-plus
          coverage: "Provides Great Britain Jobcentre Plus contact routes by purpose."
          exclusions: "Does not book an appointment or decide a claim or work-related requirement."
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: prove-right-to-work
        title: Prove the right to work
        aliases: [right to work share code, employer immigration check]
        description: Use the applicable immigration-status or document route so an employer can complete its statutory check.
        situations: [A worker or employer needs evidence that employment is permitted.]
        user_needs: [Use the current Home Office evidence route without the bundle deciding status.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: prove-right-to-work-primary
          title: "Prove your right to work to an employer"
          owner: "Home Office"
          authority_role: uk_right_to_work_evidence_service
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/prove-right-to-work
          coverage: "Provides the current online evidence and share-code route."
          exclusions: "Does not determine immigration status or whether an employer's check is sufficient."
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: start-work-based-apprenticeship
        title: Start a work-based apprenticeship
        aliases: [become an apprentice, apprenticeship employment route]
        description: Find an apprenticeship vacancy and complete both employment and approved-training agreements.
        situations: [A person wants to enter paid work through an apprenticeship.]
        user_needs: [Understand the employer, training-provider and public funding handoffs.]
        dependency: apprenticeship-employer-and-training-provider
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: start-work-based-apprenticeship-primary
          title: "Become an apprentice"
          owner: "Department for Education"
          authority_role: england_apprenticeship_entry_guidance
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/become-apprentice
          coverage: "Introduces England apprenticeship search, employment and training routes."
          exclusions: "Does not award a vacancy or verify the employer or provider agreement."
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: get-disclosure-or-dbs-check
        title: Get a disclosure or DBS check
        aliases: [criminal record check for work, basic DBS certificate]
        description: Select the correct criminal-record disclosure route for the role and obtain or share its official output.
        situations: [A worker, volunteer or organisation needs a source-defined criminal-record check.]
        user_needs: [Identify who may apply, the check level and correction or dispute route.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: get-disclosure-or-dbs-check-primary
          title: "Request a basic DBS check"
          owner: "Disclosure and Barring Service"
          authority_role: england_wales_basic_disclosure_service
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/request-copy-criminal-record
          coverage: "Provides the England and Wales basic DBS application route."
          exclusions: "Does not decide which check is lawful or cover Scottish and Northern Ireland disclosure systems."
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed
        title: Claim Universal Credit while unemployed
        aliases: [unemployment Universal Credit claim, UC when out of work]
        description: Use the applicable claim route and retain claimant-commitment, payment and review outputs.
        situations: [A person without work needs to check the current means-tested support route.]
        user_needs: [Reach the live claim and review service without calculating entitlement locally.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: claim-universal-credit-while-unemployed-primary
          title: "Universal Credit"
          owner: "Department for Work and Pensions"
          authority_role: universal_credit_service
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/universal-credit
          coverage: "Provides the current Universal Credit overview and claim handoff."
          exclusions: "Does not calculate entitlement or decide work-related requirements or payment."
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance
        title: Claim New Style Jobseeker's Allowance
        aliases: [new style JSA, contribution based unemployment benefit]
        description: Check and use the contribution-based unemployment support route and its decision or challenge handoff.
        situations: [A person who is unemployed or working limited hours wants to check New Style JSA.]
        user_needs: [Find current contribution, work-search, evidence and review requirements.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: claim-new-style-jobseekers-allowance-primary
          title: "New Style Jobseeker's Allowance"
          owner: "Department for Work and Pensions"
          authority_role: new_style_jobseekers_allowance_service
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/new-style-jobseekers-allowance
          coverage: "Explains the Great Britain New Style JSA claim and decision route."
          exclusions: "Does not calculate contribution conditions or decide entitlement."
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: get-access-to-work
        title: Get Access to Work
        aliases: [workplace disability grant, support to stay in work]
        description: Apply for employment-related disability support and coordinate the public decision with employer adjustments.
        situations: [A disabled person or person with a health condition needs support to start or remain in work.]
        user_needs: [Separate Access to Work funding from the employer's adjustment duties and retain the decision.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: get-access-to-work-primary
          title: "Access to Work"
          owner: "Department for Work and Pensions"
          authority_role: great_britain_access_to_work_service
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/access-to-work
          coverage: "Provides the Great Britain Access to Work application and support boundary."
          exclusions: "Does not diagnose, decide an award or replace the employer's equality duties."
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: get-redundancy-support
        title: Get redundancy support
        aliases: [redundancy rights and pay, job lost because role ended]
        description: Navigate notice, consultation, pay, benefits, job-search and dispute routes after a redundancy proposal or dismissal.
        situations: [A worker has been told their role may end or has been made redundant.]
        user_needs: [Find current employment rights and public support without deciding the dismissal's lawfulness.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: get-redundancy-support-primary
          title: "Redundancy, your rights"
          owner: "Department for Business and Trade"
          authority_role: great_britain_redundancy_rights_guidance
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights
          coverage: "Explains Great Britain redundancy consultation, notice and pay routes."
          exclusions: "Does not calculate an individual award or determine whether dismissal was fair."
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: access-employment-retraining
        title: Access employment retraining
        aliases: [retrain for a new career, job skills training]
        description: Find governed careers and skills routes before choosing a retraining course or provider.
        situations: [A person needs new skills after unemployment, redundancy or a career change.]
        user_needs: [Use public course and funding information and verify the provider.]
        dependency: approved-training-provider
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: access-employment-retraining-primary
          title: "Career skills and training"
          owner: "Department for Education"
          authority_role: england_career_training_discovery_guidance
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/career-skills-and-training
          coverage: "Routes people in England to current skills assessments, courses and funding."
          exclusions: "Does not recommend a provider or guarantee funding or employment."
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: volunteer-in-the-uk
        title: Volunteer in the UK
        aliases: [find volunteering, unpaid community role]
        description: Find a legitimate volunteer opportunity and understand the boundary between volunteering, expenses and employment.
        situations: [A person wants to give unpaid time to an organisation or community.]
        user_needs: [Check the organisation, safeguarding, expenses and benefit or immigration implications.]
        dependency: volunteer-involving-organisation
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: volunteer-in-the-uk-primary
          title: "Volunteer placements, rights and expenses"
          owner: "Department for Culture Media and Sport"
          authority_role: uk_volunteering_rights_guidance
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/volunteering
          coverage: "Explains UK volunteer rights, expenses and employment-status boundaries."
          exclusions: "Does not recommend an organisation or decide employment, benefit or immigration status."
      - <<: *family_defaults
        id: resolve-recruitment-discrimination
        title: Resolve recruitment discrimination
        aliases: [discrimination in job application, unfair hiring complaint]
        description: Retain recruitment evidence and use advice, conciliation or legal routes when unlawful discrimination may have occurred.
        situations: [An applicant believes recruitment treatment may be discriminatory.]
        user_needs: [Find the correct equality, time-limit and redress route without receiving a legal conclusion locally.]
        source:
          <<: *source_defaults
          id: resolve-recruitment-discrimination-primary
          title: "Discrimination, your rights, what you can do"
          owner: "Government Equalities Office"
          authority_role: great_britain_discrimination_redress_guidance
          resource: https://www.gov.uk/discrimination-your-rights/what-you-can-do
          coverage: "Routes Great Britain users to advice and legal remedies for possible discrimination."
          exclusions: "Does not determine unlawfulness or calculate a deadline or remedy."