'Red tape hindering young people' from securing work
Attempts to get more than a million young people into work are being hampered by excessive bureaucracy and central government control, council leaders have claimed.
The Local Government Association (LGA) said a new, more local approach to tackling youth unemployment could cut the number of young jobless people by a fifth.
A jobseeker looks at vacancies at the job centre. Credit: Rui Vieira/PA Wire/Press Association Images
A report complained of an "overly complicated" system of tackling youth unemployment, with 33 different national schemes, covering 13 different age boundaries, costing £15 billion a year.
More than 94,000 people completed hair and beauty courses last year, even though there were only 18,000 new jobs in the sector, while in construction, around 123,000 people were trained for around 275,000 advertised jobs - more than two jobs for every qualified person, said the LGA.
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CEOP launch film to help young people who upload content online
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre has created a new interactive film, First to a Million which focuses on young people who post video content online.
The film highlights how quickly uploaded internet material can spiral out of control and where young people can get help if it does.
The video deals with a range of scenarios that young people might face, including sexually explicit material.
Research shows that 88% of self-generated, sexually explicit online images and videos of young people are taken from their original location and uploaded onto other websites.
