CYP Now - Youth organisations call for 'civic army' to boost unemployment

A coalition of youth work groups is calling on the government to launch a new scheme offering disadvantaged young people paid placements working in their communities to plug the youth unemployment gap.

Young people will benefit from funding to provide more training and employment. Picture: Adobe Stock

Under-25s, who research has suggested are most at risk of losing work or access to training, should also be supported to engage with or remain in higher education following the Covid-19 pandemic, plans put forward by the UPP Foundation and a coalition of leading school trusts and charities say.

The plans laid out by the coalition, which includes Ark, Reach Academy, the Access Project, Bridge Group, Brightside, IntoUniversity, and the Centre for Education and Youth, would see the government to fund a Community Leadership Academy scheme at a cost of around £500m-a-year.

It would offer 75,000 placements to young people around the country in partnership with universities, charities, local government and social enterprises.

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