Unemployed Youth in UK – To attend ‘boot camps’ in ‘no excuses’ crackdown

Jobless young people will be made to attend “boot camps” in return for benefits as part of a new Conservative drive to bring a “no excuses” culture to youth employment.

Under the plan, anyone under 21 who is out of work and on benefits will have to take part in a three-week intensive course to help them find employment or training.

They will have to sign up to the programme within a month of claiming benefits – or see those benefits stopped.

The course, which ministers are provocatively describing as a “boot camp”, includes practising job applications and interview techniques. It is expected to take 71 hours to complete and benefits will be dependent on attendance.

The proposal is likely to be attacked by Labour for further stigmatising young people who can’t find work while at the same time making it harder for them claim benefits.

The changes will come into force in April next year and form part of the Government’s wider drive to ensure that all young people are in a job, apprenticeship, traineeship or unpaid work experience.

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Young  jobseekers will be sent to ‘bootcamps’ or lose social security

Unemployed 18 to 21 year olds made to do three weeks of training or face having benefits cut

AS PART of the Conservatives’ welfare reforms, young jobseekers will be sent to ‘bootcamps’ in exchange for social security

Conservative minister Matt Hancock, who heads the David Cameron’s ‘earn or learn’ taskforce, will announce plans to place unemployed 18 to 21 year olds on a bootcamp training programme after they submit a welfare claim. Hancock said that this is part of the Conservatives’ “no excuses” approach to social security.

The bootcamp will consist of a three-week training course where young people will be given lessons on interview techniques and job applications.

The scheme is part of a wider move to clamp down on youth unemployment. In the run up to May’s General Election, Cameron announced that young jobseekers would have to undertake work experience, much of which is unpaid, as well as completing job applications, or risk losing social security.

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