The report, Hidden Talents, labels current efforts to tackle youth unemployment as "overly complicated", with the £15bn system "awash with different national strategies and inconsistent age barriers".
The LGA is now calling on government to allow councils to help turn around the lives of the 260,000 young people who have been out of work for more than 12 months – known as "core Neets" – by pooling six current funding schemes with a combined budget of £1bn a year, and handing the money to local authorities.
This "community budgeting approach" would allow councils to offer intensive support to get the hardest-to-reach young people into work and learning, with potential resources of up to £4,000 per person, the report states.
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