Unemployed will receive compulsory training
Fri 13 Jun 2008
Unemployed will receive compulsory training 12/06/2008
Benefit claimants will have to attend compulsory skills training to make them more employable. New proposals announced by secretary of state for work and pensions, James Purnell, and secretary of state for innovation, universities and skills, John Denham, will see improvements to training schemes and give adults access to a new skills account. Mr Purnell said signing up for benefits should be a contract "for individuals to do whatever they can to get themselves into work". People out of work and claiming job seekers' allowance with gaps in their skills will have to attend training, 19-25 year olds without the equivalent of three A levels will get £7,000 of free tuition. "Increasingly it is not the shortage of jobs but the shortage of skills that will frustrate our ambitions of full employment and economic success," added Mr Denham. Today's study by the Department of Work and Pensions revealed UK workers lack the skills and motivation to fill jobs vacancies.
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