Liz Kendall MP at Peterborough College

Peterborough Telegraph

Work and Pensions Secretary Kiz Kendall chats to apprentices and employers at Peterborough College ahead of launch her Get Britain Working Again White Paper

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00:00And that guy's literally like that.

00:02It will guide to the centre.

00:05You call that a pilot hole?

00:07It is.

00:08A pilot hole will do the centre,

00:10and that will then make a bigger hole

00:12as well as the middle one.

00:16Strong.

00:17Are you getting it?

00:18Might improve.

00:21Excellent, well done.

00:23So they do have to learn those handskills.

00:26That's a really important part of what you do,

00:28as well as some of the fancy stuff as well.

00:30Yeah, quite like that.

00:36We're in Peterborough because we know that

00:39Peterborough is a kind of hot spot for youth unemployment.

00:43There's over 1,350 young people claiming Universal Credit.

00:49Most of those will be unemployed,

00:52and we really want to make sure that we tackle that,

00:55that we give those young people the skills they need

00:57to get the well-paid jobs of the future.

01:00The college is working really, really hard here,

01:03as is the local MP and the mayor.

01:06We want to make sure there's more power and control

01:09devolved down to the local area

01:11because we think local people know best

01:14what people in Peterborough need,

01:15and this government wants to back their efforts.

01:17We're launching a new youth guarantee

01:20to make sure every young person is earning or learning,

01:24and I've come to Peterborough, to the college here,

01:26to see the fantastic work that's being done on apprenticeships,

01:30giving young people a real start in life

01:33with proper skills and proper job prospects for the future.

01:37We want to see much more of this across the country

01:40because right now, one in eight of all young people

01:44are not in education, employment or training,

01:47one million in total, and that is not good.

01:50It's not good for them.

01:51It's not good for businesses,

01:52and it's not good for the country,

01:54and it's got to change.

01:56Yeah.

01:57Well, it will mean that local people

02:00have more power, responsibility and funding

02:03to deliver a youth guarantee,

02:06a guarantee that every young person

02:08has a chance for training, education or work.

02:11It will build on the brilliant work

02:13the college is doing in apprenticeships.

02:15It will make sure that all the support is joined up,

02:19that it starts earlier on

02:20to make sure young people don't drop out of school

02:22without the basic qualifications they need,

02:24and it's part of this big plan we have

02:26to get Britain working again.

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