Apprenticeships

This month, the UK Government announced details of new programme designed to create job placements for young people, who are set to play a significant role in the UK’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Named the ‘Kickstart Scheme’, it allows employers to create new six-month job placements for young people currently on Universal Credit …

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The measures announced by the Government show its greatest fear: that those currently benefiting from the furlough scheme – numbering over nine million – will ultimately find themselves on the unemployment register as the scheme ends. Young people are among the hardest hit. A staggering one-third of all 18-24 year-olds have lost jobs or been …

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The journey to economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.K. is going to be a long one. In July, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced that a critical element within his strategy for protecting and jumpstarting the economy was a  “Plan for Jobs.” The whole plan will cost £1.6 billion. One of the major programmes …

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