The Government is proud of its New Deal for Young People. One of the flagship policies of its 1997 election manifesto, the scheme was introduced in 1998 and met its target of getting 250,000 people into work by September 2000.
The latest figures show 858,780 young people have been through the scheme and 390,770 have found jobs. Getting nearly 400,000 unemployed young people into work is a positive achievement, but the statistics raise another question: what has happened to the others who started the scheme?
New Deal works well for young people who have fallen on hard times but basically want to work. But it is less successful for people who have more fundamental problems, for example, those who have been out of education for a number of years or who have low self-esteem and little confidence.
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