Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall MP visited Nottingham Skills Academy at Clarence Court on Thursday, July 18, to speak about reducing inactivity and unemployment in the city and across the nation
The newly-appointed leader of the Department for Work and Pensions has said Nottingham's "written off" jobless will get all the help available to get back into work. Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall MP visited Nottingham Skills Academy at Clarence Court on Thursday, July 18, to outline her aims of drastically reducing economic inactivity and unemployment in the city and across the nation.
"More than 69,000 people in Nottingham are of working age but are locked out of the labour market, one in eight young people are not in education, employment or training and our region, the East Midlands, has the highest unemployment rate of any region in the country," the Labour MP for Leicester West said.
She added: "We can give people support to build a better life for themselves. The last Government failed to have a proper plan and spent too much of its time criticising people and blaming others whereas we want to give people the support they need to get working." "I think the big problem at the minute is that only one in six employers have ever used a job centre, which drops to one in 10 for small and medium enterprises - the biggest part of our economy."
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