00:00Three parts of Bristol have much higher numbers of young people who are not working,
00:06studying or training than the rest of the city. New figures show that the shocking divide between
00:13richer and poorer parts of Bristol, with some areas home to many who struggle to find a job.
00:20Oh, totally. Yeah, yeah. Mine are not that young any longer, but I mean they are, you know, 26 and 31
00:31and the boy has gone to London to get work and my daughter who's 31, she's struggling.
00:42She's a chippy. She's a joiner and she's finding it quite hard to find work.
00:50Regular basis. What about young people who choose not to be employed and not to go into education?
00:56Is that something that worries you? I'm not sure what that's about, you know. I think it's to do
01:03with, you know, why they do that and I'm not really up on why they do that. I have some ideas but,
01:12you know, I don't really know. Yes, but I know the government is working on apprenticeships
01:17and more help needs to be done as a generation who's come through Covid.
01:21So they've missed out on that face-to-face teaching, so they need help between their
01:29sort of 16s to 20s. Yeah, I would say so, especially with like degrees and things being in the media
01:36that they're not useful and university cuts and things. So yeah, it's quite daunting.
01:43Would you like more to be done to kind of help young people get into employment?
01:47Yeah, like career services and things I think would be really, really useful.
01:51The top three wards for young people not in education, employment or training are
01:57Hartcliffe and Withywood, the 71, Avonmouth and Lawrence Western with 70 and Fillwood with 53.
02:05But are locals concerned about young people who are not working, studying or training?
02:10Um, I don't know. I haven't really thought much about it. I think it's really, really difficult
02:16to choose what to do these days. I think going back into education is kind of just quite an easy
02:21route. It's not something that you think about too much, I guess, whereas unemployment you kind
02:26of have to think about a bit more. So, I mean, if it's a choice that they, if it's a choice,
02:32like, again, go back to my daughter. She was in no big hurry to go and get work.
02:36She, you know, she did enjoy a few years of what she would felt as, you know, freedom to move around,
02:47find out things after her formal education. And then she went to, you know, she went back to
02:53university and she wasn't in a hurry, in other words.
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