Two and a half million people are unemployed and one in five young people can't find a job. By launching our plan to Get Britain Working - a big, bold and radical scheme to get millions of people back to work - Conservatives are showing that we are now the party of jobs and opportunity.
As part of a package of measures designed to Get Britain Working, Conservatives will introduce The Work Programme which: • Simplifies Labour's numerous and piecemeal programmes into one single back-to-work programme for everyone who is unemployed • Includes the 2.6 million people claiming Incapacity Benefits currently excluded by Labour's plans • Pays welfare-to-work providers according to whether they get jobseekers into sustainable employment of a year or more • Is funded by refocusing the Government's employment and training programmes, including the various New Deals and Train to Gain, and reducing the benefits of Incapacity Benefit claimants found to be fit to work
To provide extra opportunities to those looking for work, we have also announced: • Youth Action for Work - 100,000 additional apprenticeships and training places, 50,000 additional training places at FE colleges, and 50,000 work pairing places each year for two years • Work for Yourself - offering business mentors and loans to support self-employment and franchising as a route back into work • Work Together - a programme to connect people to volunteering opportunities in their area • Work Clubs - places where people can receive mentoring, skills training and help to find local job opportunities • 10,000 additional university places next year • New technical schools in England's largest cities, as part of our plans for radical school reform.
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27 November 2009
Brown's Youth Unemployment Guarantees
Yet again, Conservatives are leading the debate on the big issues facing Britain today. Rising unemployment, particularly amongst the young, is one of the biggest problems facing our contry today.
But whilst the Conservatives want to offer all young people guaranteed support back into work after 6 months unemployed - including access to hundreds of thousands of apprenticeships, training places and work pairing opportunities - Labour only want to give extra help to graduates.
How can they justify that?
17 August 2009
Leading think-tank the Policy Exchange has forecast that true unemployment will exceed 6 million by the end of August. These figures, projected from Department of Work and Pensions benefits data, plainly show that Labour has completely failed to get to grips with our welfare system. Too many people have been abandoned on out-of-work benefits and now, sadly, the recession has made their situation even more desperate. The Government should adopt Conservative proposals for bold, radical welfare reform to help these people and their families before it's too late.
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