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A million young people unemployed figure hits 15 year high.
Young people unemployment nationally has passed the politically sensitive one million mark for the first time since records became comparable in 1992.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has warned that “Britain’s young people face having their lives blighted by unemployment”.
The UK as a whole, youth (18-24) unemployment has reached a record high of 1.02 million.
The West Midlands has unemployment figures of 234,000 accounting for 8.9 per cent of the regions population.
The pressure on young people gaining employment with or without an educational background is more competitive.
What we want to know is those of you who are unemployed/employed how have you coped with the issues and do you have any top tips for others in your situation.
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UK Riots from a YA perspective.
Over the last few weeks the devastation across the country caused from a select few of which only a small percentage of those were young people has led to our image being further tarnished by the press. A week following the riots I went to a “Question time event” which was facilitated and created by the Sandwell young advisors. The panel at the event consisted of members of the police authority, Youth parliament along with council workers. The discussion and ideas behind the riots were largely contrasting however the solid statement which came from the 60 young people at the event was that there was no excuse for the crimes they had committed. The problems which face the West Midlands at the moment such as cuts in youth provision along with removal of educational maintenance allowance only echoed the feeling which many Young people in the West Midlands have. Issues surrounding police brutality and racism was also raised by young people and these problems the police aimed to address. While the discussion did become political the conversation was steered back on topic and many young people praised the way in which the police dealt with the matter. Overall an extremely positive evening and gave many Young people the chance to give their opinions and get some answers to the questions they had.
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Just over a week.
Just over a week now till you all break up for the summer, what are you going to be doing this summer, what’s happening in your local area? Why not tell us by uploading some pictures of what’s happening in your area? or telling everyone else what your doing through our poll?
Have a good summer, Speak soon
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Dudley YA’s Blog
This is the Dudley young advisors blog, we work in and around Dudley through the help of connexions in improving youth services and facilities as well working with companies on ways to improve their business so it accommodates for young persons views.
We want to get your views and opinions on your local area through the use of WordPress,Flickr and Twitter. We want you to upload pictures of your local area and discuss what you thinks great about it, or what you think is not so great along with what issues are surrounding it. These pictures you upload and tag in our photo stream will appear on this page and will allow all of those who view this site to see your local area. Following us on twitter will allow us to add tweets to the live feed which we think as young people will benefit you, along with tweeting ourselves about what we are doing, most importantly finding out what you the young people of Dudley are up to.
We just want the you to talk about your area and show us photos of your area so we along with the other young people of Dudley know what their local area is about.
Feel free to click the links above to find out more about us and begin uploading.
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