{"id":172711,"date":"2025-10-01T11:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T11:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/172711\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T11:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T11:56:08","slug":"course-aims-to-reduce-york-youth-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/172711\/","title":{"rendered":"Course aims to reduce York youth unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m looking for some full-time employment and a job after the course,&#8221; said Charlotte, 22, from Acomb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was a Christmas temp at Primark from November 2021 to January 2022 and since then there&#8217;s been a lot of competition to get work and they&#8217;re usually looking for people with more experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The latest national data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5ymvnrn0deo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Office for National Statistics<\/a>, published in February, suggested more young people were not in work, education or training at the end of 2024 than at any point in the past 11 years,<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Spear York course is focused on supporting young people who face barriers in getting employment, such as leaving school with fewer than five GCSEs, having a criminal record or facing mental or physical health challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;m looking for some full-time employment and a job after the course,&#8221; said Charlotte, 22, from Acomb. &#8220;I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[84,1371,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-172711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-jobs","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}