00:00Well we've come to Gatwick Airport today to highlight work experience in particular.
00:05We're announcing 300,000 more work experience placements over the next few years and places
00:13like Gatwick Airport provide really high quality work experience. It's a great chance for people
00:18to find out what work is like, what the different roles at the airport might be and speaking to the
00:24young people here today. It's given them great confidence and more importantly given them
00:29a chance to get on that vital first step on the career ladder. Figures published on Thursday
00:37confirmed the number of UK's 16 to 24 year olds not in employment. Educational training, known as NEATS,
00:46rose to more than a million. In response to this, tens of thousands of new work experience and
00:53training placements from construction to hospitality will be available for young people. Placements will
00:59be launched at places such as Manchester and Gatwick Airport. I think it's a really powerful
01:06and important report and the reason I commissioned it is because I think we need to do much more to
01:13increase opportunity for young people. Look at how young people are discussed. Very often in public
01:19life they're disparaged as shirkers and snowflakes and work shy and all the rest of it and it's not true.
01:28People are out there applying for jobs, applying for training places, they're trying to do the right
01:33thing and I think we need to offer a better deal for young people. So I asked Alan Milburn who
01:39I like and
01:40respect enormously to do this report because I knew he would deliver a powerful report about what's
01:47happening at the moment and the next stage will be what we really have to do to change the course
01:53of
01:53young people's lives and give them a better chance to get a good job in life. Well from next month
01:59we are
02:00putting in place a hiring bonus for employers whereby they can be paid three thousand pounds if they take on
02:07a
02:07young person who has been unemployed for six months or more. From the autumn we're going to change the
02:13apprenticeship system so that for small and medium-sized businesses they'll get a hiring bonus of
02:19two thousand pounds if they take on a young apprentice and we're also putting in place a subsidised job
02:26programme for young people who've been out of work for 18 months or more and all of these measures are
02:33aimed at more opportunity more work for young people and stop in the situation where too many young
02:40people are graduating from education whether that's school or college and finding that they can't get
02:47a proper job. That's what we want to change and that's why this youth guarantee and all the measures
02:52underneath it are so important.
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