Youth Unemployment in parts of West Cumbria declared an "Emergency"

[jammy dodger]

NEIGHBOURHOODS across west Cumbria where youth unemployment has reached an “emergency” are revealed today.

Distington, Frizington and Sandwith in Copeland and Netherhall and Moss Bay in Allerdale are included on a list of 600 hotspots where the proportion of young people claiming out of work benefits is double the national average.

A commission chaired by Labour MP David Miliband identified the 600 “hotspots” across the UK, covering 152 local authority areas, which show 12.76 per cent of all young people in Distington are claiming the payment, 12.77 per cent in Frizington, 14.47 in Sandwith, 13.03 in Netherhall and 14.18 in Moss Bay.

No other council wards across Carlisle, Eden, Copeland and Allerdale are included on the list.

The Commission on Youth Unemployment urged the Government to do more to help young people find work, including a part-time job guarantee for those on the Work Programme for a year.

Mr Miliband said: “Britain faces a youth unemployment emergency. This is a crisis we cannot afford. Government have set the right goal – abolishing long-term youth unemployment – but we will need big change if we are to achieve it.

“Young people, Government, communities and employers will all need to up their game if young people are to succeed in a radically changing jobs market.

“Our report sets out a practical routemap for how they can do precisely that.

“The crisis of youth unemployment can and must be tackled now. With action we can make a real difference across Britain.”

Mr Miliband said despite the lack of jobs available due to the recession, there was a deeper problem in the UK.

“Even in the good times, in 2004 when the economy seemed to be booming, there were 900,000 youngsters who were not in education, employment or training – half of them for over a year.

“So what I always say is the current government did not invent this problem but it has become much worse in the last 18 months.”

The commission want government to double the number of subsidised job places available through its “youth contract” scheme, guarantee part-time jobs for those out of work for a year and create youth unemployment zones to focus resources.

According to the report the current level of youth joblessness will cost £4.8bn this year.


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[Bkenz92]

I was lucky and got an Business Admin apprenticeship after my 1st year in 6th Form in 2009, and decided to leave then instead of staying on at school and possibly getting nothing.
Now I'm trying to set up my own business!  so not all is bad

[jammy dodger]

Now I'm trying to set up my own business!

Best of luck in your enterprise.


Can you share what it is?

[Bkenz92]

A website to help apprentices get advice off other apprentices, also to help school leavers make decisions of what they want to do when they leave school etc. It will take a while, but I'm getting a lot of help from different people 

[jammy dodger]

Its great to see people, younger ones too, having some form of entreprenurial spirit.

Good luck

[red white and blue]

blair and brown between them made it more profitable for woman who worked 16a week  than say a young lad working 40 hrs a week on the shop,and there was no benefit whatsoever for anyunemployed person that benefited out of building for the olympics.
when i wrote to my local mp about overseas aid,he told me in no certain terms we were morally obliged to send this money,typical socialist ,look after those abroad first.
why should any young lass who has no babbies go out to work to support other peoples kids,same with the poll tax,at least everyone would have paid their whack.

[cran.cran]

Heady stuff, I have lived in the Sandwith ward since 1975 less say six years here and there, IT WAS OFFICIALLY, the poorest and unhealthiest ward in the country for many years and had one of the highest death rates, or as near as. It is only [maybe three years ago] a specialst consultant came to Whitehaven regularly to study this very subject, his explanation of why the death rate was improving was starkly simple the older unhealthy ones have all died, we still see general and youth unemployment alongside poverty, low expectations and poor education and health as the norm in the ward. The Council's strategy to combat this is to knock down perfectly good houses and allow Fred Story to build new houses, whilst this in itself [the new houses] is not a bad thing it is just a way of massaging the figures, those poor people have been moved into other areas, they haven't moved up the social tree whatsoever there concentration has just been diffused. What is really disgusting is that we have had a labour council for Donkey's years [apart from a brief period in the late seventies can anyone tell me when we last did not have a Labour Council] and they have done nothing to lift these unfortunate people out of poverty, there record in the Sanwith Ward is and always has been appaling.

[ca28]

Hmm,

The WCDA or whatever it call's itself nowadays (energy coast ?)would only offer grant's to business's wishing to start up in the area. If the company was already in Cumbria is was nearly impossible to access grant's to expand. You complain about RFL been SSI, these guy's make the RFL look like ameuters.  They keep onto government grant money as long as possible, for if the spend it to quickly then they would be out of a job. They threw million's at Sammi  sound to relocate in west Cumbria, they employed 6 people intotal for 9 months! These SSI would think nothing of hiring a helicopter to show so called business around west Cumbria. There is the real problem with west Cumbria not Labour.

[cran.cran]

Sorry CA28 I can't agree with you the Labour party has been in power so long IT HAS become institutionalised. They also have not had to show ANY initiative over the last thirty years as BNFL [or whatever it is known today] has innured them from the realities of life and the sycophantic relationship that exists has stifled any innovation at council level, they have not had think only put the begging bowl out.

[ca28]

Sorry CA28 I can't agree with you the Labour party has been in power so long IT HAS become institutionalised. They also have not had to show ANY initiative over the last thirty years as BNFL [or whatever it is known today] has innured them from the realities of life and the sycophantic relationship that exists has stifled any innovation at council level, they have not had think only put the begging bowl out.

 

I have to agree with the council BNFwhatever relationship. Just look at the nuclear dump that only Copeland and Allerdale have shown interest in. West Cumbria's political folk need a good dose of realityy and that can only come at the ballot box ! Labour councils and MP's have let the area go to the dog's over the last thirty years and what do people do....vote for them time and time again.

[cran.cran]

What really annoys me about all this nuclear waste? The stuff is mostly here, or that is what I infer from all the media. There is not ONE single bourough in the whole Kingdom that is willing [and that includes Allerdale - who in my opinion are only being a nuisance here] or would be willing to take all this crap - or even their share of it, I feel it's here and here to stay - so stop fannying about we have no choice but to "embrace" the waste and get the best deal we can. Stop all these time wasting consultant fattening exercises and get on with it and use the resulting winfall to reinvest in the area and make it somewhere people want to visit and in new industries.

[jammy dodger]

Im sorry Cran Cran but the only people who are to blame for the economic disaster that Copeland is are the electorate. It is these people who continue to elect the useless lot we have down on Catherine Street.

For me party politics shouldnt even enter local councils. They can only be detrimental to the area, whats good for the party may not be good for that area!!

[cran.cran]

Im sorry Cran Cran but the only people who are to blame for the economic disaster that Copeland is are the electorate. It is these people who continue to elect the useless lot we have down on Catherine Street.

For me party politics shouldnt even enter local councils. They can only be detrimental to the area, whats good for the party may not be good for that area!!

I agree with you about the eltorate and agree with you about party politics in local government but I still stand by the remarks I made about the institutional nature of the ruling party, the electorate may not be quite savie but the politicians should be - have you ever attended a council meeting? If you haven't you should they are quite a laugh. them's big letters mate!

[jammy dodger]

Indeed they are big letters, hopefully people will see them and realise i am talking about them!! A day doesnt go by without me hearing local people complaining about how inept our council is, yet they still go out and vote the same shower of s***e in!!

Yes I have been, but i wont be going again. Some of them really are not in touch or even on this planet when it comes to "knowing whats best for the people of this area"

[cran.cran]

Could not agree with you more about the meeting waffle waffle waffle about nowt, most of them just want to hear their own voices