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New drive to get young unemployed Danes into education and jobs

The Danish government launches another youth package to offer education to nearly 100,000 young people on benefits - many of whom have no further education at all. Meanwhile the effects of previous youth packages are beginning to materialise.
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The new youth package

The new youth package comprises eight initiatives.

Four of the initiatives worth 264m Danish kroner (€35.5m) are aimed at helping young people without an education:

  • Building bridges to an education for young people with weak qualifications
  • Apprenticeship consultants who can help young people find apprenticeships
  • Grants to business which hire someone who is in adult education
  • Education groups for long-term, unskilled and skilled unemployed young people.

 

Four of the initiatives worth 381m Danish kroner (€51m) are aimed at helping newly qualified young people find jobs:

  • Strengthened job rotation scheme
  • Trade pilot scheme
  • Strengthened knowledge pilot scheme
  • Partnerships to find jobs for school-leavers

 

Previous youth packages

The government’s youth package is the latest in a row of initiatives aimed at young people. Some earlier efforts include:

  • From 2006 people under 25 who applied for unemployment benefits or cash aid were told to get an education if they did not already have one.
  • Youth package 1 from September 2009 included 380m Danish kroner (€51m) to fund an active employment policy for people between 18 and 30. It would in particular help 18 to 19 year olds on cash aid with a so-called ‘instant offer’ as soon as they entered the job centre. Job centres were also asked to target all unemployed people under 30 with no education or job, who were stuck in unemployment. They were also offered reading and writing training.
  • Youth pack 2 from October 2009 gave 92m Danish kroner (€12.3m) to job centres to especially target 15 to 17 year olds with for instance mentor programmes, reading and writing training or apprenticeships. Before this, job centres didn’t see young people until they came asking for cash aid at 18.  
  • Youth package 3 allocated a further 178m Danish kroner (€23.9m) in April 2011 to improve the contact between job centres and unemployed youths, to extend apprenticeships and for new schemes helping young unemployed academics.

 

Source: The Ministry of Employment

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