Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
    • Advertise
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • XpertHR
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Pricing
    • Free trial
    • Subscribe
    • XpertHR USA
  • Webinars
  • OHW+

Personnel Today

Register
Log in
Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
    • Advertise
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • XpertHR
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Pricing
    • Free trial
    • Subscribe
    • XpertHR USA
  • Webinars
  • OHW+

Early careersRecruitment & retentionUK Commission for Employment & Skills

CBI and BCC back call for employers to help tackle youth unemployment

by Louisa Peacock 8 Jan 2010
by Louisa Peacock 8 Jan 2010

Business heavyweights from the CBI and British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) have joined the CIPD and TUC in urging employers to help tackle the growing problem of youth unemployment.

In an advert due to be published in the press next week, key figures including Richard Lambert, director-general of the CBI, and Jackie Orme, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), will urge employers in an open letter to give more young people jobs and help prevent them falling into worklessness.

Mike Rake, chairman of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), is also writing personally to the heads of all FTSE 100 companies, urging them to support young people by offering more apprenticeships, work placements and work experience.

The open letter will say: “There are many practical things employers can do. We can provide work experience to help young people learn about work, make contacts and boost their CVs. We can offer them apprenticeships. We can offer them internships.”

It goes on to list several more options for helping young people stay connected to the jobs marketplace, including work trials, mentoring schemes or work-based training.

The letter will call on firms to join the Backing Young Britain campaign, launched last summer to encourage employers to offer work opportunities or experience to jobless youngsters.

“Each of our organisations has signed up to Backing Young Britain, and we hope you will too,” it says.

The latest unemployment figures found there were 932,000 16 to 24-year-olds out of work in the three months to October 2009.

The organisations that have signed the open letter are: UKCES, the CBI, the TUC, Business in the Community, the BCC, the Institute of Directors, the Federation of Small Businesses, The Alliance of Sector Skills Councils, the CIPD, and the Chartered Management Institute.

CBI
Avatar
Louisa Peacock

previous post
Cyborg rebrands to Accero
next post
Membership rockets for eLN CIC

You may also like

Work visa changes: Who is likely to lose...

5 Dec 2023

Hiring talent overseas with simple HR compliance (webinar)

4 Dec 2023

2024 HR trends: ‘Hybrid work backlash could damage...

30 Nov 2023

RAD Awards 2024 shortlist unveiled

29 Nov 2023

What will it mean to be an HR...

28 Nov 2023

Virgin Media O2 scoops 2023 Early Careers Award

21 Nov 2023

HCA Healthcare carries off Innovation in Recruitment Award...

21 Nov 2023

HealthSectorTalent lands Talent Acquisition Partner of the Year...

21 Nov 2023

Heathrow in partnership with PeopleScout checks in with...

21 Nov 2023

Use of AI in graduate hiring soars as...

14 Nov 2023

  • BetterMe for Business: How to Build Wellness Culture at Work PROMOTED | Ever encountered a...Read more
  • Global growth with simple HR compliance (webinar) WEBINAR | In an increasingly global marketplace...Read more
  • Talent acquisition: How AI can complement a ‘back to basics’ approach PROMOTED | Artificial intelligence is now...Read more
  • What will it mean to be an HR professional in 2024? (webinar) WEBINAR | As we approach 2024...Read more
  • HR Budget Planning for 2024: Preparing your People Strategy PROMOTED | As organisations continue to adapt...Read more
  • Almost a fifth of UK workers feel undervalued – we need to solve this PROMOTED | A new report has found...Read more

Personnel Today Jobs
 

Search Jobs

PERSONNEL TODAY

About us
Contact us
Browse all HR topics
Email newsletters
Content feeds
Cookies policy
Privacy policy
Terms and conditions

JOBS

Personnel Today Jobs
Post a job
Why advertise with us?

EVENTS & PRODUCTS

The Personnel Today Awards
The RAD Awards
Employee Benefits
Forum for Expatriate Management
OHW+
Whatmedia

ADVERTISING & PR

Advertising opportunities
Features list 2023

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Linkedin


© 2011 - 2023 DVV Media International Ltd

Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
    • Advertise
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Wellbeing
    • Recruitment & retention
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • XpertHR
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Pricing
    • Free trial
    • Subscribe
    • XpertHR USA
  • Webinars
  • OHW+