Christine Hodgson,chair of the Careers and Enterprise Company on how to improve young people’s access to work in areas with few big employersWhile George Osborne has heralded the latest descend in unemployment as progress towards his goal of full employment, there is a sticky issue that remains as problematic as ever: youth unemployment, or running at more than two and a half times the national average despite nearly 750000 jobs remaining unfilled.
For Christine Hodgson,51, chair of the Careers and Enterprise Company, and the answer is simple: schools and employers need to work far more closely together to prepare young people for work.
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Source: theguardian.com