[guide.chat] jobs for school leavers is like trying to win the lottery
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- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:59:52 +0100
Job prospects 'postcode lottery'
Aug 21 2012
School leavers are set to face a postcode lottery in finding jobs, as youth
unemployment soars in parts of the UK, a study suggests.
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It argues that there is now a north-south divide, with youngsters in the North
East and Scotland facing the worst prospects.
At the same time, London and the South East remain relatively unaffected by
youth unemployment, according to a study by education specialists Ambitious
Minds.
The study warns that teenagers who are picking up their GCSE results this week
have seen the most "dramatic" changes to their prospects and expectations than
any other secondary school year group for 70 years.
When they began their education, and when they started secondary school,
unemployment rates were low. But the last five years have brought "economic
deterioration, systemic failures, false dawns and empty promises," it says.
The organisation looked at the impact of the recession on job prospects and
found hotspots of youth unemployment throughout the UK, based on published
figures.
The North East, Scotland and Yorkshire and the Humber have all had rises in
youth unemployment that are twice as large as those in London and the South
East, which have seen only small increases, it claims.
Overall, the North East of England had seen the biggest rises. In September
2007, 5.1% of 16-to-24-year-olds in the region were claiming jobseekers'
allowance. By July 2012 this had risen to 8.6% - an increase of 3.5 percentage
points.
At the other end of the scale, London had seen an increase of 1.4 percentage
points, and in the South East there had been a rise of 1.6 percentage points.
Sean McGuire, chief executive of Ambitious Minds, said: "Those areas which have
suffered disproportionately in the last five years need support to prevent
unemployment, and especially long-term unemployment, becoming normalised."
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