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In a bid to stop youth unemployment rising above one million the government is to spend money tackling the problem. The details of how this is to be done are as yet unclear but if past evidence is anything to go on, training programmes and subsidies for employers will constitute the two main planks. (more…)
The CBI have called on the government to spend £125m on providing 50,000 new youth apprenticeships. Under the plans each participating employer would receive £2,500 for every apprentice it took on. The government has allocated £500m to a recruitment subsidy fund, the CBI sees the cost of the apprenticeship scheme as coming from this fund. (more…)
How long should you follow your dream, before you decide that it isn’t going to work out and you need to get a ‘proper job’? For many people, particularly those in their twenties, that is a question to be avoided at all costs. For many others, particularly the parents of those who don’t want to hear the question, it is the only question worth asking. (more…)
The tragedy of one in six young people being unemployed is compounded by the inadequate official response. The knee jerk reaction from all agencies involved is to offer them some sort of training, in the hope that this will qualify them for whatever job they stumble across in the future. There is rarely any discussion about what training, and in any event the skills they will learn through conventional training are far less important than the skills they will fail to pick up by not being in work.