At the Council's Regeneration Committee today members received a report on the success of the Future Jobs Fund, an initiative introduced by the last Labour Government to help people aged 18 -24 who were out of work for more than 6 months get into the Labour market.
The FJF has been a major success in Inverclyde with 258 people to date being employed in the programme with a target of 480 by the time the programme comes to an end in March 2011.
Unfortunately one of the first acts of the new Lib Dem Con Coalition was to axe the Future Jobs Fund: a shameful decision in my opinion.
It seems that the Tories and their Lib Dem allies have not learned the lessons of the 1980s when the Thatcher Government condemned generations of young people to the scrap heap.
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