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ABANDONING YOUNG PEOPLE IN WALES

A report came out yesterday which warned that a generation of young people face being left on the jobs "scrapheap".

Therefore, at a time when youth unemployment has risen to its highest levels for a couple of decades, why has the Welsh Assembly Government agreed with the European Commission to move 41 million euros of Convergence funding from supporting young people to pay for its ProAct Scheme?

We know that at least a million pounds has gone to a large company that didn't even want the money in the first place? How much more has just gone to firms that basically didn't need it when it could have been spent on getting young people in education or training?

Couldn't 41 million euros be buying extra university places, college courses and apprenticeships for the thousands of young people who have little or no future in Wales?

Yet another example of how WAG simply haven't got a clue about real economic priorities and, worst still, how the Welsh press simply isn't holding them to account.

Comments

Robert said…
100% right, unemployment for me at 59 means little, unemployment for a 16 year old could be soul destroying, we need to get our young into some sort of paid employment, do not tell me we cannot do this, if we cannot then sadly the world is finished.
October 14, 2009 9:31 am
Anonymous said…
That report is out of date
They have been left behind for years and no one is paying attention at the right level or with the right measures to sort out a real smoking gun.
We have a growing underclass of young people with no qualifications, hope or prospects and anothe strata of young people who could help create jobs etc that just do not return. This as I said has been growing for around 7 years that I can recall
October 14, 2009 10:06 am
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