The government is to review its “confusing” youth unemployment strategy, the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced. The Guardian reports that Clegg effectively admitted the Youth Contract – a government scheme that offers wage subsidies for employers of young people – had failed.
Child-related benefits for unemployed parents should be capped for two children, the Conservative party chairman has said. The Daily Mail reports that Grant Shapps suggested the limit would mean all parents would have to decide if they could afford to have large families.
The Pupil Premium should be extended to cover children aged three and four to help improve literacy levels among children affected by poverty, a national charity has said. The National Literary Trust made the call as it published a report that suggests the government is ignoring the role of literacy in tackling intergenerational poverty.
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