The Scottish Government has announced a new seven year strategy to aim to cut youth unemployment by 40% by 2021.
The new strategy will see the government promote closer links between schools, colleges and employers to encourage youths from all backgrounds to adapt into a working society quickly.
The move comes after the Commission for Developing Scotland’s Young Workforce demanded change in how young people were brought into employment.
- Over the next seven years the Scottish Government aims to:
- Increase work related learning and improve qualifications in schools
- Provide students with earlier careers advice from 2015/16.
- Achieve a new, higher standard of work experience from 2015/16
- Launch a “pre apprentice” scheme to help those furthest away from the labour market
- Partner all secondary schools with employers by 2018/19
Improve Employment Record
The move is believed to try and continue to improve Scotland’s employment record which has been improving over the last year, as well as giving others currently in work more skills if they are to become unemployed.
Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work, Skills and Training Roseanna Cunningham said: “Returning to pre-recession levels of youth employment is not enough and the Scottish Government’s commitment to supporting more young people towards high quality jobs remains unwavering.
“The youth employment strategy being published today outlines what we plan to do to equip our young people with the skills and knowledge they need from the early years right through to the senior phase and into an apprenticeship, further and higher education, and a job.”
She added: “At its heart are our detailed plans to implement the recommendations from the Commission for Developing Scotland’s Young Workforce, reflecting its vision for an improved system of vocational education that opens up work opportunities to everyone, whatever their background or gender.”
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