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Mixed messages on tackling youth unemployment

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Over the last week, I have been fortunate to have presented at Inclusion's Welfare to Work conference on job sustainability and advancement as well as at Fundaci?n ideas on youth unemployment. At both of these conferences, the issue of youth unemployment and how to best tackle it was high on the agenda. The messages are stark, youth unemployment and particularly long-term youth unemployment is rising.

After significant falls through the late 1990s and 2000s, rates began to rise sharply from 2009. Figures show that of the 724,000 18-24 year olds currently unemployed 390,000 (54%) are unemployed for up to 6 months. 136,000 (19%) 18-24 year olds are unemployed for between 6 and 12 months and 198,000 (27%) for over 12 months. Of these 198,000, 41 per cent (82,000) have been unemployed for over 24 months. For 16-17 year olds, the picture is similarly worrying; figures show that 12.1 per cent (25,000) of 16-17 unemployed people have been unemployed for 12 months or over.

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