{"id":19488,"date":"2025-07-24T21:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T21:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/19488\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T21:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T21:34:08","slug":"work-placements-offered-to-care-leavers-in-midlands-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/19488\/","title":{"rendered":"Work placements offered to care leavers in Midlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We must continue to work together for those living in our region and give people the opportunity to reach their true potential,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for Severn Trent said it had the &#8220;ultimate aim&#8221; to see more young people in work, and out of risk of poverty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said the announcement came at a time where the number of young people not in education, employment or training was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cp92218jpryo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nearing one million<\/a>, the highest in a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Figures released last year also showed a huge rise in the number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cj4dyy9kgrro\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">care leavers in England facing homelessness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Darren Jones, chief secretary to the Treasury, said the firm&#8217;s commitment to helping people into work, including care leavers and ex-offenders, was an example of how business can &#8220;drive real change in our communities&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We must continue to work together for those living in our region and give people the opportunity to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,63,99,180],"class_list":{"0":"post-19488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}