Fixing youth unemployment ‘a priority’ for government

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Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said the government wants a welfare system that provides security for those who cannot work, but supports those who can into employment, as it plans to reform the system and reduce the welfare bill.   Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We understand that we need a welfare system that provides security to people who can't genuinely

00:08work, but where people can work, they should be working. The Minister Stephen Timms is working

00:16with the disabled community at the moment to do a review of personal independence payments.

00:22The new Work and Pension Secretary, Pat McFadden, is looking at how we can make sure that young

00:28people get into work, education and training because we've an unacceptable situation at the

00:35moment where one in eight young people are not in work, education or training. That's not good for

00:41them. It's not good for the public finances and we're losing the talents of a generation and so

00:46that's why we need to rectify that.

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