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Youth unemployment sailed past the million mark last week, and within days Nick Clegg has a billion pounds and a plan. The same thing happened in April 2009: youth unemployment hit an all-time high, and Labour rushed out the Future Jobs Fund, pledging a £1bn. But this time it’s different, says Mr Clegg – this time taxpayers will get value for money and the jobs will last longer. Is he right or is FactCheck having a déjà vu?
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is expected to announce £1bn, opportunities for 500,000 18-24-year-olds, and funding for work placements, apprenticeships and work experience to fend off the scourge of youth unemployment.
Channel 4 News Social Affairs Editor Jackie Long finds the government’s employment support allowance is being dogged by endless and repeated appeals as claimants are found fit, then unfit, for work.
UK unemployment soars to its highest level for 17 years with 16 to 24-year-olds the hardest hit. Economics Editor Faisal Islam meets some of the young jobless fighting to get onto the career ladder.
Unemployment is rising at its fastest level for two years, as the number of young people without jobs surges.
As Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke pledges to reduce high rates of reoffending in the wake of the riots, experts tell Channel 4 News the criminal justice system is “not rehabilitating anyone”.
“There’s currently no legal mechanism for forcing offenders to agree to meet their victims. If the rioters don’t feel like a face-to-face showdown then, as things stand, they won’t have to do it.”
An independent panel is being set up for victims of the riots across England. Offenders will also be forced to wear visible orange clothing while taking part in “community payback schemes”.
The government’s aim of helping people with disabilities into work is “laudable” but the process causes anxiety, MPs say. Channel 4 News hears the test is like “psychological warfare”.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith says “a life on benefits will no longer be an option for somebody”. But Channel 4 News has found figures suggesting that this is already the case.
The claim “The level of youth unemployment actually went up by 40 per cent under the last government” David Cameron MP, Prime Minister’s Questions, February 16, 2011
Labour Leader Ed Miliband accuses the Prime Minister of “betraying” young people, as new figures show youth unemployment rising to almost a million.
A record number of young people are out of work, latest figures show, as unemployment soars by 49,000 to 2.5 million.
Two-and-a-half million people are now unemployed while the number of young people out of work soars to one of its highest levels in another bad blow to Britain’s delicate economy, writes Faisal Islam.
Unemployed claimants will face a strict ‘three strike’ policy which will see their benefits stripped for up to three years if they refuse the opportunity to work.