00:00Well there are hundreds of thousands of vacancies in the economy and we've got
00:04one in eight young people not in education, employment or training. That is
00:09a terrible waste of their talent and their potential and we know it scars
00:13them for the rest of their lives. If you are out of work early in what should be
00:18your working life you're more likely to suffer other bouts of unemployment, earn
00:23less and also suffer from mental health challenges as well and so this is about
00:28matching people to jobs that are available and also skilling people up and
00:31I put money in the spending review into skills and apprenticeships and we want
00:35those to work for young people so that they're not languishing on benefits but
00:39actually contributing.
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