{"id":303003,"date":"2025-12-07T09:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T09:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/303003\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T09:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T09:43:07","slug":"sunday-with-laura-kuenssberg-pat-mcfadden-faces-laura-kuenssberg-over-new-youth-work-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/303003\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg: Pat McFadden faces Laura Kuenssberg over new youth work plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government to pay for at least 25 hours&#8217; work a week at minimum wage for trainingpublished at 09:25 GMT<\/p>\n<p>09:25 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">First up is Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden, who is asked how many jobs the government&#8217;s youth guarantee scheme will create.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The \u00a3800m scheme is designed to counter a &#8220;sharp rise&#8221; in youth unemployment, he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McFadden says the scheme will &#8220;give intensive advice&#8221; to 900,000 people and offer work experience or training to 300,000 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There will be 55,000 subsidised job offers for those who &#8220;don&#8217;t get the job through the training&#8221;, he adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The youth guarantee is a strong offer of help to hundreds of thousands of young people,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It&#8217;s saying to young people: we believe in you, we have faith in you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McFadden says &#8220;there&#8217;s no reason&#8221; why employers wouldn&#8217;t sign up to offer training, as the government will pay for at least 25 hours&#8217; work a week at minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also notes that young people will lose benefits if they fail to engage with the programme &#8220;without good reason&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Government to pay for at least 25 hours&#8217; work a week at minimum wage for trainingpublished at 09:25&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-303003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303003","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=303003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}