Government challenged over youth unemployment figures

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Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says the government is taking action on school attendance and providing new apprenticeship routes to address the number of young people not in education, employment or training. Figures released last week show that half of all jobs lost from company payrolls since Labour came into government have been among the under-25s. Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Why are so many young people at the moment out of work or struggling to find work?

00:06The number of young people in our country who are not in education, employment or training is far too high

00:11and that's why we're taking action on school attendance because we know that if children drop out of school

00:15and aren't there regularly, that does then feed through into the numbers of children longer term

00:20who aren't in employment or training. We've launched our youth guarantee to support young people back into work

00:25and alongside that the changes we're making to the curriculum system and also new apprenticeship routes

00:30will provide young people with more opportunities to be in work, to learn and to make a contribution

00:34but this is a really big challenge that we've inherited and we're determined to grasp it.

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