Young people who reached age during the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to be “on the heap of scrap” without urgent action to re-engage those who have moved away from work and education, according to the British job minister.
Alison McGovern told Financial Times that the effects of disturbed education and the loss of possibilities for young people “to obtain their first boss” were now visible for work coaches in employees.
This had aggravated the effects of the previous decade, which “was not a good time for young people,” she said, warning lasting effects on people's prospects “if you find yourself on the pile of scrap metal when you are young”.
“I am really worried about what we are seeing at the moment,” said McGovern, when he asked him questions about official data indicating a strong increase last year in the number of young people who do not fall from work and education. “Young people from workers who have no qualifications are likely not to move on.”
McGovern was expressed before the publication of new research showing how socio-economic disadvantage, low qualifications, special education needs or handicaps (sending) and ethnicity can exacerbate the chances of not being in education, employment or training (NEET).
The report, published Tuesday by the charity impulse, revealed that young people from disadvantaged backgrounds were 66% more likely to be only the average.
Their chances have improved at each stage where they followed the scale of qualifications, but even those who have higher qualifications did not behave as well on the job market as a better peer.
The areas with the highest level of Neet were concentrated in northern England and Midlands, but all regions had black spots – including prosperous places with deprivation pockets, such as Brighton & Hove.
Impetus said that the conclusions have canceled the hypotheses “which simply live in urban areas, or even the areas of southern England, necessarily protect” young people from becoming Neet. ”
The worst results, however, were for young people confronted with the impulse called “triple threat” – from a disadvantaged environment, while sending and lacking in GCSE level qualifications. This group is three times more likely not to win or learn than average.
Susannah Hardyman, director general of the impulse, said that data – based on detailed government files covering a period from 2011 to 2019 – would help the government to adapt and target support where it was most necessary.
“What helps in London may not help in rural cumbria,” she said, adding that the results on the value of the qualifications have questioned the decision to end the post-pandemic tutoring program for children most affected by the disturbance of their education.
Recent official data suggests that the obstacles to which young people have become even greater since the pandemic, the number of 16 to 24 years classified as neet increased sharply over the past year to more than 900,000.
These figures, on the basis of the National Statistics Office, in difficulty, the labor market market, are uncertain. But distinct evidence also emphasizes that more young people fall from the job market due to mental health problems.
The government established plans last fall for a “youth guarantee” intended to provide all young people with access to jobs, training or apprenticeship – with initial funding of 45 million pounds Sterling for eight “pioneer” areas to test the means to support young people at risk of becoming Neet.
McGovern said that these pioneers would test the means for community organizations to join young people who have missed the support offered to applicants' services via Jobcentre at present.
“There are young people who do not claim advantages that are just as lost,” she said, adding that trailblazers were an element of wider reform to revise the Jobcentre network and create better jobs in disadvantaged areas.
But Hardyman said that the pioneers would take time to settle. It was necessary to go “further and faster”, she said, in particular given the ministers' plans to reduce disability profits and prevent young people from claiming the health element of universal credit until the age of 22.
Distinct research published Tuesday by the Reflection Group on Resolution Foundation revealed that the public service package and the increase in work support for patients and disabled could lead to work at most 105,000 people by the end of the decade – while pushing hundreds of thousands of people in poverty.
McGovern refused to comment on the findings of the Foundation.
A government spokesman said that the reflection group had given “only a partial image” because it did not take into account the plans that the ministers had previously undertaken to stimulate employment and support of health, or reflect “the real scale of …
