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SOUTH Shields MP David Miliband has described youth unemployment in the town as “in crisis”.
The former Foreign Secretary says he wants to reduce the number of people under the age of 25 who are out of work.
Last month, 6,730 people in the borough were claiming benefits – 2,130 of them under the age of 25.
He is launching a report aimed at tackling the problem, after working with charities, businesses, academies and local councils.
Mr Miliband said: “This is a crisis, but it is one we can tackle with a series of actions by Government and employers talking to solve the problem.
“Long-term youth unemployment in South Shields has doubled in the last 18 months.”
The Labour MP said one solution could be a scheme where young workers act as mentors for those under 25 who are out of work.
He said apprenticeships need to be better advertised, and should be given the same profile as university courses.
The report, called ‘Youth Unemployment, the crisis we cannot afford’, was published today.
It has been put together by a taskforce chaired by Mr Miliband in association with Aveco, a charity chief executives’ group.
Mr Miliband rejected the claim that immigration has added to the problem of youth unemployment, especially in South Shields.
He added: “We have a lot of young people who want to make a difference.
“This is a group of young people who are more qualified than before.
“I think there are three really big problems.
“First, we have got to prepare young people for a different world of work and we have got to prepare them better.
“Secondly, if they do become unemployed we help them back into work faster and with more intensive help, and, thirdly, we have got to make sure there is proper demand for labour among young people.
“We would like wage subsidies brought in for young people, we would like to see apprenticeships not just expanded but organised on a national scale.”
Mr Miliband said he has no intention of returning to the Labour front benches to avoid creating a “soap opera” with his brother Ed, who beat him to the Labour party leadership during an election in 2010.
He said: “Ed needs the space to lead the Labour Party as he sees fit. I can help Labour at the grassroots.
“I am trying to make sure we are taking our message all over the country and not being in the shadow cabinet allows me to do that.
“I can minimise the amount of soap opera by not being in the shadow cabinet.”
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BoldonLad
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 02:29 PMThank you very much for the offer Chartist, but, I would rather empathise with the employment (or rather lack of employment) for young people in the UK, and in particular in South Tyneside.
wasthatthatguy
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 09:56 AMHebburn wud be canny as well like.
East Boldon Lad
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 09:50 AMBL extrapolate a little, and try to imagine or empathise with the employment situation or lack of employment in Syria, unemployment, poverty and economic oppression may well be one of the causes of the protests in that country. I chose to mention Syria, I could have chosen certain other Middle Eastern or African countries. My castigation is reserved for those who gratuitously abuse other bloggers or local politicians, to which you are an exception.
BoldonLad
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 08:58 AMNo, I meant what has the situation in Syria got to do with the jobless situation on South Tyneside? You castigated others for making pointless remarks, just trying to stay more or less on topic. Or are you saying that only people who, as it were, lean to the right are against free speech, freedom to protest etc?
East Boldon Lad
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 06:28 AMSimples, BL; UK is a country where you can blog, write letters about and twit ter critically, sometimes allegedly defamatorily about your political leaders with relative impunity, then, if so moved you can take your protest on to the streets, also with relative impunity. That was true to a certain extent of the 1830s and 1840s too; tens of thousands assembled on Newcastle Town Moor to listen to Chartist Radicals without being attacked by the militia. Syria is a country where it would appear that the children of protesters are being killed and wounded on the streets. Noone has arrested and tortured Mr Monkey or locked up hisher family without trial; or at least not last time I read the "Gazette". A much clearer statement of opinion than the contrived ineptocracy quote, methinks.
wasthatthatguy
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 01:05 AMAhm Mr Hepburn frem Jarra nd aad like yee t putt yer caar plannt in Jarra.
BoldonLad
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 10:12 PMChartist point 5, you are getting desperate, what has Syria got to do with it?
East Boldon Lad
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 10:11 PMDM's earnings are "petty cash" compared to those about whom I am blogging. However, the 21st Century Labour MP's background and lifestyle is admittedly very different from that "enjoyed" by those elected in the 1930's.
wasthatthatguy
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 09:48 PMIs there space for a car plant in South Shields? Probably not. Is there space in Jarrow or Hebburn? Maybe. It's a pity Mr Miliband isn't the MP for Jarrow and Hebburn. Could he "do a swap" with Mr Hepburn, then try and get a foreign car company to build a plant in Jarrow or Hebburn? The cars can be shipped to Europe from Tyne Dock.
Scritti Politti
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 08:52 PM3) The lifestyles of those who earn vast amounts and evadeavoid tax are so uber comfortable and financially secure that their consumerist extravagances are in many persons eyes ultra self indulgent and obscene. Aye, thats Milliband for you.
East Boldon Lad
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 08:21 PMBL, some coherent clear points 1)I have worked with benefit claimants giving them legal and financial advice; their lives are not their own, every change in circumstance eg a young relative leaving home, or one coming to live with claimant has to be reported to BA, unlike those of us who enjoy uninterrupted employment at reasonable remuneration free from the requirement to report to BA or similar agencies 2) a true blue Tory of my acquaitance said that he had little or no problem with benefit claimants who earned a few quid without accounting for it, because they spent money locally and a proportion of that spending included VAT, benefitting both local businesses and the Treasury; that is not to condone fraud, merely to illustrate that the most surprising people can have radical views about controversial issues 3) the lifestyles of those who earn vast amounts and evadeavoid tax are so uber comfortable and financially secure that their consumerist extravagances are in many person's eyes ultra self indulgent and obscene; wealthy businesspersons could still live comfortably and securely as well as investing far more money in their businesses to raise the living standards of employees who would spend that income in their local businesses.4) Ineptocracy is a rather inexact ineptocratic generalisation, given that we now have universal suffrage, and, on occasions, elect impressive individuals to lead us irrespective of their political allegiance. Wealth can be inherited, and, can originate from dubious as well as relatively honest sources. A Victorian railway entrepreneur might have raised £2 Million to build a line from say York to Harrogate, but without the blood, sweat and tears of thousands of relatively poorly paid and abused "Railway Navvies" no line would have been built and no profits earned. Furthermore, in the era of "Rotten Boroughs" those workers would have had no vote. 5) where would we rather be living South Shields or Syria?
BoldonLad
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 07:27 PMCome, Come, Chartist, you are clearly quite bright, I cannot belive you cannot see points being made. Choose not to see perhaps. It is interesting how one person sees only the workers being ripped off by the wealthy, whilst an other sees the workers being ripped off by the professional benefit claimants.
bohemianblogger
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 02:47 PM@wasthatthatguy quoting from your comment at 11, "Politicians have virtually no effect on the state of the economy" I agree with one proviso, it is because of the amount of politcal interference of Governments in the economy that makes recessions more damaging and more prolonged. This is something Thatcher attempted to rectify while in power, something that would make Britain Great once again and no doubt many hate her, if we strip her policies down to pure economics, she was genuinely doing what was right for this country. Blaming Thatcher for everything wrong in the North East is leftist nonsense, a look at history tells us this, so thankyou wasthatthatguy for highlighting this very valid point.
wasthatthatguy
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 02:17 PMThis is from the BBC item, found by Googling Thatcher Nissan :- Oddly enough, the only opposition which might have derailed the plan came from within Nissan itself. The ageing chairman, Katsuji Kawamata, thought the company should slow down its expansion plans. But here Mrs Thatcher came into her own. As leader of the opposition in 1977 she had visited one of Nissan's automated plants and saw it as a model for how she wanted things done in Britain. She had stayed in touch with Mr Kawamata and in 1982 made a point of visiting him personally to put the case for Britain. No surprise, then, that once Nissan had decided to build in Britain and she was invited to open the factory, she painted Nissan's decision as a vindication of everything she was doing.
Hebburnlee
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 12:52 PMOverly generous to suggest that Thatcher played a large part in attracting Nissan to Sunderland. It was prominent local business people with good connections within the Tory party who persuaded the government to support them in bringing Nissan to the region. More recently, it was One NorthEast who played a masssive part in ensuring that Nissan not only stayed in Sunderland, but developed the plant even further. The demise of One NorthEast was a very bad day for the region. Who now fights our corner?
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