Work and opportunity should replace an entitlement-first approach, says the work and pensions secretary, who set out targets and funding aimed at getting young people into jobs and reforming the welfare system.
A Youth Guarantee package: £2.5bn investment, £3,000 incentive for businesses hiring young people, 50,000 extra apprenticeship starts, 300,000 additional work experience places.
A Jobs Guarantee for long-term young unemployed offering real paid work to rebuild confidence and prospects.
Pat McFadden sets out plans to put work and opportunity at heart of welfare. Thank you Conference, and it's great to be back in Liverpool, a city that has given so much to this country and to the wider world. I want to begin today by thanking my Ministerial team at the DWP for the hard work that they do every day on an agenda that is so important to the country.
When we do it is not because this is some tough decision forced on us by necessity. It is because it is the right decision driven by our beliefs and values. Because it is the moral crusade of our times.
Today we must do so again – to put work and opportunity at its heart. Now, almost a million young people are not in education, employment or training. Young lives with whole futures in front of them.
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