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Apprenticeships – not dole

What is really needed is a localised approach to developing and embedding apprenticeships into the ...

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No Neet solution

Yet we suspect Neet rates will worsen. As public sector cuts begin to bite, services ...

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Shapps’ fiddling won’t solve the real crisis

Just where are these areas of underemployment and high council house numbers that people can ...

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We need the Future Jobs Fund back

Our young people need jobs, not an expensive two week residential programme like the National ...

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Capital gains

If social capital lies at the heart of our health and wellbeing, how do you ...

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Single or duplicitous Work Programme?

My views seem to resonate to some degree with Sir Stephen Bubb, no less, who ...

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Localising the challenge

The phrase Big Society is banned and you’ll find little kowtowing to the government’s agenda. ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

We must focus on young people’s skills to solve the current jobs mismatch

It’s scandalous that there are jobs going unfilled when so many are out of work. ...

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How can we make the UK a global innovation hub?

Innovation does not take place in isolation - successful innovation builds on a network of ...

Communities Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Riots: what role trust, sense of place, belonging?

We need to ask, and in time answer, whether our politicians, our public services, and ...