Why are so many young people at the moment out
of work or struggling to find work? The number
of young people in our country who are not in
education, employment, or training is far too high
, and that's why we're taking action on school attendance
, because we know that if children drop out of
school and aren't there regularly, that does then feed
through into the numbers of children longer term who aren't
in employment or training. We've launched. Youth guarantee
to support young people back into work and alongside that
, the changes we're making to the curriculum system and
also new apprenticeship routes will provide young people with more
opportunities to be in work, to learn and to
make a contribution, but this is a really big
challenge that we've inherited and we're determined to grasp it --> .