It’s that headline figure that a new government white paper, “Get Britain Working”, seeks to address. There are a raft of positive proposals in it – but as some of the headlines suggest, there’s still an empathy gap between young people’s experiences of unemployment and the majority of reporting.
While much has been made of the mental health crisis precipitating the record numbers, the young people we speak to and work with often have little control over why they’re out of education and employment. Most of them want to work – but can’t even find jobs in their local area or access training and apprenticeships that could set them on their way.
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