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 With hundreds of local young people leaving education this month, Glasgow North MP Ann McKechin urges the Tory – Lib Dem government not to cut support for youth jobs.
Claimant Count figures released today show that youth (JSA) unemployment in Glasgow City is now 6,640. [3] Labour’s Future Jobs Fund has created over 15,400 youth jobs in Scotland. But the government is scrapping this help, cutting university places and abolishing Labour’s Youth Guarantee of a job or training place for any young person who has been out of work for six months. Under Lib Dem-Tory plans, an estimated 11,000 youth jobs in Scotland will now be cancelled as a direct result of the decision to axe the Future Jobs Fund scheme. The scheme was targeted at areas such as Glasgow, which suffer from long term youth unemployment. Ann McKechin MP for Glasgow North said:  “Local young people should not pay the price for this government’s unfair cuts.
“Scrapping support for youth jobs is wasting the talents of an entire generation. That’s why I believe there should be more opportunities for young people around here to find work.”
Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Yvette Cooper said:  “These figures show just why it is dangerous and callous to cut support for jobs and the economy.
“May's small fall in unemployment is welcome and reflects the extra support Labour put into the economy as it started to come out of recession. “But there's still little sign of private sector job growth, with jobs in areas like construction still being heavily hit. And this is before the big spending cuts and the surge in young people leaving education this summer. “Cutting 90,000 youth jobs and hundreds of thousands of public sector jobs while the private sector is still so fragile will condemn many people to a lifetime on the dole. “In the 90s the Tories said unemployment was a price worth paying to cut inflation - now they clearly think it's a price worth paying to bring down the deficit.”
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1. The monthly update of the claimant count and Jobcentre vacancies data series took place at 09:30 on 14 July 2010 with the release of new data for June 2010. 2. Total JSA claimants Glasgow City (June 2010) | Glasgow City
(numbers) | Glasgow City
(%) | Scotland
(%) | Great Britain
(%) | All people | 24,919 | 6.4 | 4.1 | 3.8 | Males | 18,426 | 9.2 | 5.8 | 5.1 | Females | 6,493 | 3.4 | 2.3 | 2.2 |
Source: ONS claimant count with rates and proportions Note: | % is a proportion of resident working age population of area and gender |
3. JSA claimants by age and duration (June 2010) | Glasgow City
(numbers) | Glasgow City
(%) | Scotland
(%) | Great Britain
(%) | By age of claimant | Aged 18-24 | 6,640 | 26.7 | 28.4 | 27.4 | Aged 25-49 | 14,720 | 59.2 | 55.2 | 56.6 | Aged 50 and over | 3,305 | 13.3 | 15.2 | 15.6 | By duration of claim | Up to 6 months | 14,280 | 57.4 | 62.5 | 60.3 | Over 6 up to 12 months | 5,475 | 22.0 | 21.6 | 21.6 | Over 12 months | 5,130 | 20.6 | 15.9 | 18.1 |
Source: ONS claimant count - age and duration Note: | % is a proportion of all JSA claimants |
From Nomis national statistics
4. Future Jobs Fund and CUTS by Region Region | FJF jobs awarded to date | FJF jobs no longer to be awarded due to government cuts (approx) | North East | 3,100 | 2,000 | North West | 18,000 | 12,000 | Yorkshire and Humber | 8,100 | 6,000 | East Midlands | 5,100 | 3,500 | West Midlands | 10,100 | 7,000 | East | 3,100 | 2,000 | London | 8,500 | 6,000 | South East | 4,500 | 3,000 | South West | 3,600 | 2,500 | Wales | 10,400 | 7,000 | Scotland | 15,400 | 11,000 |
(NB Not all FJF jobs have been allocated to specific regions some were allocated at national level)
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