LIB DEMS LAUNCH POLICY TO GET ALMOST 900,000 UNEMPLOYED YOUNGSTERS INTO WORK (Derby City Liberal Democrats)

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LIB DEMS LAUNCH POLICY TO GET ALMOST 900,000 UNEMPLOYED YOUNGSTERS INTO WORK

October 12, 2009 4:08 PM

The Lib Dems action plan will help unemployed local youngsters get into work or training

A leading local Liberal Democrat has backed an action plan to get unemployed young people back into work.

Cllr Lucy Care Lib Dem parliamentary candidate for Derby North is backing her party's ambitious policy to try and help 900,000 young people into employment or training.

A shocking statistic is that nearly one in five 18 to 24-year-olds are currently unemployed, compared to fewer than one-in-ten of all other ages. It is clear that this policy is key to building a better future for Britain by delivering a better trained and more motivated workforce and lifting almost a million young people out of a future of unemployment.

Lucy Care said "Without action, young people will lose hope and get trapped in a culture of dependency. Our new proposals make sure young people get the help they need which to keep self-respect and contribute to wider society.

2Giving almost 800,000 young people the opportunity to get into industry through paid internships will help raise the level of training and knowledge across the workforce. This will help us move forward in a post recession Britain.

"An extra 60,000 places will be funded in universities and colleges, opening up further and higher education. We will also fully fund apprenticeships to put British industry back on track and give more youngsters places on essential back-to-work schemes."

The proposals would cost £1.1billion and would be paid for by scrapping the ill thought out and ineffective VAT cut immediately.

Cllr Care continued "This is a real plan for Britain's future. At a time when the agenda is being monopolised by stories of cuts it is a real mark of the Liberal Democrats that we launch a policy that will lift the hopes and aspirations of a generation of unemployed young people and help build a well trained workforce fit to face the future in a post recession Britain"