00:00This is a long-standing, long-term problem. It's been going on for many years.
00:04It's complicated and complex, as Alan Melbourne makes clear.
00:08There's no single thing that you can say that's the reason.
00:12So obviously, we will now work with Alan on what more needs to be done.
00:17I'm pleased that some of the measures we've already put in place are coming on train next month.
00:22So particularly the stuff about apprentices.
00:25We've been talking to apprentices here. It's vitally important for young people.
00:28So what we've put in place is £3,000 support for any employer that takes someone who's been unemployed for
00:35six months,
00:36a young person, and gives them an apprenticeship, that start that they need.
00:40Also, if a young person's been out of work for 18 months, we're guaranteeing a job for them for six
00:46months.
00:46We know from previous experience that that gives them a good chance of maintaining that job.
00:51So some of those measures are in place. We clearly need to go more.
00:55This is, I think, a real sobering report, and we cannot afford, we will not allow, a lost generation.
01:03And so we'll work with Alan now on what more needs to be done.
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