Local Area Employment Services

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The Local Area Employment Service is a new service in partnership with the Department of Social Protection. From our community offices in Crumlin and Dublin 1, we support local job-seekers through a person-centered 52-week engagement, focussing on preparing for work and job seeking. provide guidance and supports to clients (maybe you) who are looking to enter employment.

The Dublin 12 (D12) & Dublin South City (DSC) Local Employment Services are community-based organisations set up under the Dublin South City Partnership and funded through the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection.

We provide a free, confidential service for the local community focusing on the provision of practical support, advice, guidance and information relating to employment, training and education.

DSC and D12 are part of a national network that is state funded and provides a free local, quality recruitment service that aims to bridge existing labour market services and to develop working relationships with local companies.

Commitment To Quality

The Dublin South City Partnership’s Local Employment Services designed a quality management system to ensure that the organisation provides a premium level of quality in its services. This also complies with Q Mark standards. The Local Employment Services are committed to focusing on quality services that fully satisfies customer and service expectations in relation to:

Customer Charter

Dublin South City Partnership is a local development organisation set up to address issues of poverty and social exclusion in the Dublin South City area.

The partnership works in the communities of Dublin 4, 6, 6W, 8 & 12.


This customer charter sets out the standards you can expect when dealing with Dublin South City Partnership. When we use the word ‘customer’, we mean – the different agencies and groups we work with, be they statutory, community or voluntary; all individuals that contact us in connection with our work; all individuals and organisations who provide services to us. This charter does not affect your statutory rights.

Service Standards

Services To Jobseekers

The service is free and available to unemployed jobseekers in the Dublin South City Partnership area. 

We offer service-users the opportunity to identify suitable job vacancies or to access appropriate further training and education options.

The service is also available for:

Services To Employers

Are you an employer looking for staff?

Local Employment Services offer a free recruitment service to employers, advertising their vacancies to unemployed job-seekers in the DSCP area. 

We can offer:

For further information please contact:

Local Area Employment Services

LAES at Dublin 12 

phone us at 01 409 5082

or email us info@dcclaes.ie

LAES at Dublin 1

phone us at 01 473 2196

or email us at  reception@dscp.ie

Local Area Employment Services Team