CBI support for Youth Contract
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has formally backed the government’s £1 billion Youth Contract programme aimed at ensuring ‘every young person in the UK is in education or employment’.
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CBI Director General John Cridland joined Clegg, employment minister Chris Grayling and leaders of the British Chamber of Commerce, British Retail Consortium and Federation of Small Businesses at a round table event to announce support for the scheme.
Cridland says,
‘The Youth Contract is good news for young people up and down the country. It will encourage firms to give a young inexperienced person a chance so that the scourge of unemployment can be tackled.
