The Government recently announced a package to support jobs expansion for young people, to avoid bringing through another generation of people who remain unemployed for life because they were unable to find a job when they first left school/college.
Trades Union Congress -
Responding to the expansion of the Government's Jobs Guarantee today (Wednesday) to young people who have been unemployed for ten months, as part of the Backing Young Britain campaign, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: 'This is fantastic news for the many young people who are in desperate need of work. 'In previous recessions many young people have been left on the scrapheap. Today's announcement shows the Government is committed to not letting this happen again.
Responding to the expansion of the Government's Jobs Guarantee today (Wednesday) to young people who have been unemployed for ten months, as part of the Backing Young Britain campaign, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
'This is fantastic news for the many young people who are in desperate need of work.
'In previous recessions many young people have been left on the scrapheap. Today's announcement shows the Government is committed to not letting this happen again.
Gordon Brown was pressed yesterday to give fresh details of measures he said would create an extra 85,000 jobs and training opportunities for young people. The prime minister claimed more than 150 employers, including Royal Mail, Centrica and Morrisons, will provide apprenticeships, work or training. He said the deal meant that any unemployed person aged 18 to 24 will be given an opportunity of a job or training or education within 10 months of going on the dole from April 2010, rather than within 12 months of losing a job as previously promised. But the Conservatives said Gordon Brown needed to "come clean" on the figures and the number of places on offer, as well as the number of places that would go to those already in work. The plans include new training for 36,000 Morrisons' employees under 25, and about 5,000 new opportunities, including apprenticeships, offered by big companies. The government said it would help get 45,000 people into jobs in retail, tourism, leisure and hospitality
The prime minister claimed more than 150 employers, including Royal Mail, Centrica and Morrisons, will provide apprenticeships, work or training.
He said the deal meant that any unemployed person aged 18 to 24 will be given an opportunity of a job or training or education within 10 months of going on the dole from April 2010, rather than within 12 months of losing a job as previously promised.
But the Conservatives said Gordon Brown needed to "come clean" on the figures and the number of places on offer, as well as the number of places that would go to those already in work.
The plans include new training for 36,000 Morrisons' employees under 25, and about 5,000 new opportunities, including apprenticeships, offered by big companies. The government said it would help get 45,000 people into jobs in retail, tourism, leisure and hospitality
'In previous recessions many young people have been left on the scrapheap.
So instead the same people who got left on the scrapheap in the 1980's recession, and who now will be in their 50's and finding difficulty getting work will be Kicked a second time, and this time their hope of returning to the jobs market will be even more slim. Where's the help for them? Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
