Results of £5m youth jobs scheme 'not good enough'
The West of England's 'Youth Guarantee' scheme, a £5m initiative to help young people into work, is being redesigned after failing to meet its first-year targets. While the program reached only 300 of its 500-person goal, officials remain optimistic about future outcomes.
Share Save Add as preferred on Google Hannah Miller Bristol politics reporter BBC Helen Godwin believes working with the voluntary sector will deliver better outcomes in the second year of the Youth Guarantee scheme The mayor of the West of England has admitted the initial results of a £5m-per-year scheme designed to help young people into work are "not good enough" after it reached only 300 people in its first year.
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