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Line 27: The first fifty six Jobcentre plus Pathfinder offices were brought into existence during October 2001.<ref>Lissenberg S, Marsh A, Hartfree Y, Sutton L, Kellard K, Nimmo J, Alos E, Davies V, Sumpton, R, Taylor J, Rzymann I, Fidler Y, Wymer P [http://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar?q=cache:mZqrEmLc-AsJ:scholar.google.com/&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 Experiencing Jobcentre Plus Pathfinders : overview of early evaluation evidence (2003)] Crown copyright for the Department for Work and Pensions -Retrieved 2012-05-31</ref> The forerunners of the Jobcentre Plus were the government-run Labour Exchanges, originally the vision of [[Winston Churchill]], [[President of the Board of Trade]] and [[William Beveridge]], who had worked for a more efficient labour system in the early years of the 20th century. This was intended to address the chaos of the labour market and the problems of casual employment. This was followed by 'Jobcentre' with its orange signage in the mid 1970's and the re-branded 'Employment Service Jobcentre' with dark blue signage from 1994 to In 1908 Beveridge was commissioned to devise a scheme which would combine labour exchanges with a new government-funded [[unemployment benefit]]. The Labour Exchanges Bill was rushed through [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] and passed in September 1909 and, after months of planning and recruitment of clerks, 62 Labour Exchanges were opened on February 1, 1910. The number of offices rose to 430 within four years. At the suggestion of the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[David Lloyd-George]], from January 1917 the Labour Exchanges came under the new [[Ministry of Labour (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Labour]] and were renamed Employment Exchanges, so as to more accurately reflect their purpose and function. | |||