Youth Contract have worked well, but that more radical solutions are needed in the future if youth unemployment is to be overcome.
When the Youth Contract was launched in April 2012, it was done so with the ambitious aim of helping 410,000 18- to 24-year-olds into work.
But the latest statistics from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), published just six months before the £1bn initiative expires in March 2015, make it difficult to measure whether the scheme is on track to hit its target.
The report compiles data for three strands of the Youth Contract - wage incentives, work experience placements and pre-employment training - for April 2012 to May 2014.
Comparing the data to the previous report, published in February, which features data for the initial 19-month phase of the scheme (April 2012 to November 2013), it is easy to see growth in all three strands.
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