There are several questions that I ask myself everytime I go through the local shopping arcade, Where are all the jobs and why is there still massive problems with deprivation (and the problems that it brings) And why has nothing been done to solve the two previous questions. I always walk through going i’m going to write to someone asking – this time I actually am, I’m sending a slightly altered version of this to my four elected representatives, not that I particularly expect an answer.
Where are all the jobs though?
The local NHS hospital is the areas biggest employer along with a ASDA… Not really options that are great for careers post 16 are they? In fact at the last census there were more people unemployed than there were actually in work, and that can only have got worse as the economic downturn hit, you would expect then there to be lots of students etc? Well only 14% have at least one GCSE and only 5% make it to further education. Yes in recent years it has one got slightly better, there being a new Sixth Form centre opened, which is wonderful but even if it doubled the amount of people getting to A Level it’s still only 10% of students. Which everyone must see is bad.
The second question i think slightly more complex for clearly obvious reasons, but broadly speaking it is a mix of education, social problems, lifestyle and a lack of opportunities in some cases, this clearly isn’t the case for everyone, and it would be wrong of me to think it is. In fact the two questions are massively interlinked if only 5% of 16 year olds are making it into Further Education, then clearly the other 95% have to either find a job that they can get with their qualifications, which many of the 95% may do but the others then have to live meagre on meagre benefits, and then the spiral keeps going on. So if you some how solve the first problem then you can go someway to solving the second one.
The problem is, where are the jobs going to come from
I can see the massive investment and change we see that 13 years of a Labour government has given, I only have to walk across the road and I can see a new library and new college, police station and swimming pool. But they simply aren’t enough.
June 4th, 2010 → 7:21 pm
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Connaire Demain, Connaire Demain. Connaire Demain said: Jobless: http://wp.me/pBzk5-EZ [...]