Sentences with phrase «youth contract»

He said the government's youth contract scheme, which provides apprenticeships and work experience for unemployed young people, will cost taxpayers an extra # 457m in 2014 - 15.

The current quarter is set to be the most difficult for the jobs market since the recession, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has warned, on the day the deputy prime minister asks UK firms to sign up to the government's youth contract programme.

Last Autumn I launched a # 1bn Youth Contract with the goal of getting every young person earning or learning again.

Sam hails from Southampton and signed a longer - term youth contract in November 2011.

We've introduced the biggest back to work programme in this country's history, including our new Youth Contract to get more young people into work.

Only one in ten young people will be aided by the government's youth contract policy, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) claims in a report released today.

The government finally launched its # 1billion Youth Contract earlier this month in an attempt to help young unemployed people back into work.

Ministers will be hoping their # 1 billion youth contract programme can make a difference to the jobs market, which saw overall unemployment rise to its highest level since January 1996 in the three months to November last year.

During a trial match for Montpellier against Paris Saint - Germain, his virtuosity caught the eye of a Real Sociedad scout and, after a successful trial in the Basque country, he was offered a youth contract.

You guys realise prior to this season he was a youth player and he is still running on the youth contract.

He was the assistant coach at the club, when Frank signed the youth contract.

But the Youth Contract should be just a first step.

«The new «Youth Contract» can not come soon enough for a generation of young people experiencing the worst unemployment since comparable records began in 1992.

««The Youth Contract» is nothing more than a re-heating of the YTS and YOP schemes and is a hark back to the eighties where similar Thatcherite ideas failed.

Government officials hope the «wage subsidy» offered by its youth contract scheme will make a difference.

«Getting young people earning or learning is my top priority, and that's what the youth contract is going to do,» the deputy PM pledged.

The world's first Green Investment Bank putting millions into green jobs and growth; our youth contract to get every young person out of work earning or learning; more apprenticeships than this country has ever had before; major investment in areas facing difficulties from the Regional Growth Fund and greater freedom to boost jobs in our great cities; and we will take further steps to make our tax system fairer too.

The «youth contract» will subsidise employers at half the minimum wage to take on young people who have been out of work.

Youth unemployment is at its highest in years, so the chancellor is under pressure to extend the youth contract to broaden possibilities for young people, as well as to introduce policies which will encourage job creation in the private sector.

The attack came as the deputy prime minister announced a speeded - up youth contract to get young people into work in 20 problem areas.

FSB chat to Danny Alexander at Lib Dem Party Conference, welcome education reforms, discuss the Youth Contract wage incentives, and more...

There are countless other demands on the chancellor: extending the youth contract, expanding the Enterprise Investment Scheme, etc..

Go for one of the 400,000 apprenticeship places on offer, the Youth Contract, or even the Work Programme.

The Labour leader Ed Miliband will insist the «real jobs guarantee» goes much further than the Government's youth contract, which offers a subsidy to employers hiring young people.

That's why Nick Clegg was right to fight for the Youth Contract, to invest # 1bn in wage incentives, training places and more apprenticeships.

The Youth Contract is also made up of tens of thousands of work experience places; we're getting businesses to open up their internship programmes so they aren't just for children with well - connected parents; we're supporting a record number of apprenticeships; and we hear the message from business loud and clear: sometimes these young people just aren't ready - they don't have the right skills.

*** So, to sum up, I hope I've given you a sense of our approach: we started with the Work Programme; we introduced the Youth Contract; now we're homing in on youth unemployment hot spots; action that is targeted; urgent; always looking to do more; Government working hardest for the places that have been hardest hit.

There'll be a # 1 billion youth contract to alleviate unemployment for young people.

But, again, our Youth Contract goes much, much further: the wage subsidy is worth four and a half times what a national insurance holiday would save you in a year.

These youth contracts would allow young people to get a foot on the employment ladder and directly target the country's youth unemployment problem, which currently stands at 20 %.

Nia Griffith, Labour's MP for Llanelli, wants to know why the youth contract scheme still hasn't started.

Provisions for «youth contracts» should be made, allowing firms to take on under - 25s without adhering to employment regulations that currently price them out of the market, such as the national minimum wage.

Wage incentives to employ 18 - 24 year olds Find out more about the # 2,775 wage incentive that's available through the Youth Contract when taking on a young person in England, Scotland and Wales.

So what needs to happen to prevent a «lost generation» and ensure the Youth Contract along with the welcome investment in apprenticeships, does more than scratch the surface?

Last year I was happy to summate on Jo Swinson's «Giving Young People a Future» motion which sought to build on the Youth Contract and picked up on some of the flaws in the current policy, for instance the importance of guaranteed access to careers advice.

«The work we're doing through the youth contract and through the work programme and through work experience should be supported by people like the trade unions and the Labour party instead of being carped at by them, which is what they do the whole time.»

This government has failed to address that need: it's welfare programmes are failing — from the Work Programme to the Youth Contract to the Work Capability Assessment.

«Our Youth Contract is also providing a range of extra targeted support for 16 - and 24 - year - olds who are Neet to help get them back on track.

They are a Prime Contractor for the flagship ESF Workless Families programme for the DWP, and are also the Prime Contractor for two Youth Contracts for the Education and Skills Funding Agency.

Pre-Work Programme, New Enterprise Allowance and Youth Contract — Statistics on pre-Work Programme mandatory programmes.

Youth Offer and Youth Contract — Statistics on work experience, sector - based work academies and Youth Contract Wage Incentives.