Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
- Posts: 3,370
#2
If Cameronh sent back the EU cheep invasion these kids could get jobs and start there life's
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#3
governments are only interested in protecting big businesses keith, thought you would have come to that conclusion yourself.
our youngsters come a very poor second.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#4
more like 3rd class citizen howard.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
#5
I think a fundamental mistake happened shortly after the coaltion started.
The Labour Government started a "Future Jobs Fund" and paid young people to go on work experience; their JSA went from £50 something a week, to £150 something a week, but they had to agree to go on work-experience.
This was started at the old Post Office opposite Morrisons and called Learning and Skills for Business and Community (LSBC). My job, working for the Channel Chamber of Commerce, was to find young people, that work experience by phoning local businesses of all description asking if they would like some free help for up to 3 months.
This would give the young person and the company, time to tell if they would like working there and conversely, if they would be of value to the company after that 3 months with a view to taking them on.
I was advised that they would like me to get around 30 in the first 3 months and I got, I think it was, 97, so well exceeded there expectation.
The Coalition supported that up until early part of last year and then they wanted to support/fund apprenticeships and so stopped the FJF and so my job went too.
The young people were so disappointed and felt let down - and let down they were.
I think this was a case "if it aint broke, don't fix it". If the young people had been allowed to continue with the work-experience program, then find that they had been taken on, then they could do the apprenticeship part; the kids would have been valued and in employment and the firms would have had, first free labour, then funded/cheap labour - cheap to the company that is.
Roger