The New Deal to help young people into work was one of Labour's flagship policies when it came to power in 1997.
Derided by many, it nevertheless succeeded in finding jobs for 250,000 young people by 2000 and was hailed a success by the Government.
The reality was more complicated. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were lucky that New Deal went live in 1998, at a time of general economic buoyancy and demand for workers.
But today, six years after the launch of the idea, there are concerns that New Deal is finding it harder to get young people into jobs, leading to a number of different approaches within New Deal, some announced in this month's Budget.
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