Labour’s Young Person’s Guarantee helped nearly 200,000 unemployed youths in just over one year, but the Tory work experience programme for Young People has only ‘helped’ 16,500 in the last eight months.

The Tory work experience programme (see here) was introduced to give NEETs 8 weeks work experience to boost their employability.

It was introduced to replace Labour’s Young Person Guarantee that was scrapped by the Tories in Mach 2011.

But since January the Tory’s programme has only been provided to 16,360 youths, whereas the Labour programme had been provided to nearly 200,000.

We are unable to measure the success of the Tory programme because post-completion data is not yet available.

But the low rate of assistance offered to youths is further evidence that the Tory approach to youth unemployment is woefully inadequate.

From the 25 January 2010-March 2011, Labour’s Young Person Guarantee funding managed to help more than 200,000 people.

The Future Jobs Fund accounted for just over half of those beneficiaries.

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