PM David Cameron backs successful Grimsby Telegraph jobs campaign
THE PRIME Minister has backed the Grimsby Telegraph's Campaign to help give people a brighter future.
Your Life: Your Future is back and once again aims to help tackle unemployment and secure jobs for local people.
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Prime Minister David Cameron has praised the Grimsby Telegraph's campaign to tackle unemployment.
The campaign is currently trying to give 200 people from our area a week's worth of work experience in an attempt to get people in or back to work.
David Cameron said it ties in with both the current Government's Youth Contract and Work Programme.
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He said: "Getting Britain working is a key priority of this Government and is one of the greatest challenges we face.
"I want to congratulate the Grimsby Telegraph on the success of their campaign so far to help people take advantage of the rising number of job opportunities out there.
"It is a difficult time for our country, but over the last two years we have seen an extra one million new jobs in the private sector.
"Businesses are taking people on and employment is up by nearly half-a-million people over the last year.
"What we need to do is help those people who are finding it hard to get work and that is what our new Work Programme is all about; giving people tailored support to get the skills and get the right job.
"We are not just helping people who recently became unemployed, but also those who have been out of work for years, or even decades.
"We are prepared to spend up to £14,000 per person to help them get a job that will get them off benefits and give them a chance in life.
"We're also doing all we can to help young people get into work through our £1 billion Youth Contract.
"We are creating 250,000 extra work experience places and have doubled the incentive for private employers to take on apprentices.
"More than 440,000 apprenticeships have taken place this year alone.
"But the task of changing our country for the better isn't just the job of Government – it needs support from businesses, jobseekers, communities and the media.
"Initiatives like the one the Telegraph is supporting play an important local role in this and that's why I'm delighted to wish the campaign every success."
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has also highlighted the importance of work experience.
The CBI is one of the UK's leading independent employers' organisation.
Neil Carberry, CBI Director for Employment and Skills added: "Gaining hands-on experience of the workplace is vital to giving young jobseekers a foot in the door, and it can make such a difference when they are applying for interviews.
"This is a great initiative which will change 200 young people's lives.
"We urge Grimsby businesses to get behind it."
If you could offer a work placement to someone, e-mail dan.russell@gsmg.co.uk or call 01472 372236.
Comments
by lildog
Wednesday, November 14 2012, 7:35AM
“The biggest problem in this country of ours, is, when a large business is successful, the owners are always ready to sell it to competitors abroad. When there is a shift in economics and adverse trading, the first to suffer is the newer acquisitions.
We are to suffer wholesale rises in fuels in the short term, but why? Oil prices are Jan 2012, are lower than they were in Jan 2008, so why do we need these rises, not only effecting every home here, but putting heavy pressures on what industry is left in this country.
One way of helping industry, and eventually, our job market, is to buy goods marked-'MADE IN THE UK'.”
by grimsby123
Tuesday, November 13 2012, 5:42PM
“http://tinyurl.com/d2k6enj”
by theshunter
Tuesday, November 13 2012, 5:20PM
“"We are prepared to spend up to £14,000 per person to help them get a job that will get them off benefits and give them a chance in life."
Is this a GT print Error, Should this read £14.00 ?”
by simmo707
Tuesday, November 13 2012, 2:33PM
“A million working adults face benefit cuts next year
Nearly 1.2 million people may be sanctioned if they do not obtain extra work, increase their hours or find a higher paying job
http://tinyurl.com/cm8gccr”
by grimsby123
Tuesday, November 13 2012, 9:26AM
“consent me uk your rights”
by Hedgewood
Tuesday, November 13 2012, 9:20AM
“"By the end of the century Grimsby was the world's largest fishing port and by 1901 the Fish Docks were landing 99,000 tons of fish every year and both the Alexandra and Royal Docks were busy handling millions of tons of coal each year."
http://tinyurl.com/czwtpts
By 2012 – "THE PRIME Minister has backed the Grimsby Telegraph's Campaign to help give people a brighter future."
Lets hope it works.
Work experience is fine, but it's jobs that are required.
Grimsby has great sea, road, & rail, links plus a nearby airport, & a small army of people desperately looking for work
Are we really making the most of our once famous town? Once the largest fishing port IN THE WORLD?
I know the fish have gone, but surely someone has a plan B better than
"trying to give 200 people from our area a week's worth of work experience"
Better than nothing I suppose, but someone at the top needs to stand back & look at the bigger picture”
by 1812o
Tuesday, November 13 2012, 8:58AM
“It's safe to say that the GT are doing more to promote jobs in the area than Cameron and The ConDems.
Thank God someone is trying to promote the area.”