One of his current apprentices, 17-year-old Abi said she knew of people who had left school but had not gone on to work.<\/p>\n
“I think a lot of it does actually come down to lockdown. I think because people just kind of sat in the house and they didn’t do anything,” she added.<\/p>\n
Peter Cheese, chief executive of HR body the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development, said the government’s plans were a step in the right direction but called for “more ambition… [to] make apprenticeships a viable alternative to university”.<\/p>\n
Business lobby group the CBI said employers would have a key role in delivering jobs and training opportunities, but added there was “no doubt that rising taxes and employment costs will make it more difficult for them to do so”.<\/p>\n
The latest official data puts the employment rate at 74.8%, the economic inactivity rate at 21.8%, and the unemployment rate at 4.3% – with 1.49 million people out of work.<\/p>\n
However, there have been question marks over the reliability of data on employment due to a decline in the number of people taking part in the official Labour Force Survey.<\/p>\n
Recent analysis by the Resolution Foundation think tank suggested the survey had underestimated employment growth since 2019, and overestimated economic inactivity.<\/p>\n
The think tank said the government’s employment plans were “full of good intentions” but the “youth guarantee” that every young person has a chance of earning or learning needed to be “cast-iron”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of his current apprentices, 17-year-old Abi said she knew of people who had left school but had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-25157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}