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Businesses challenged to help reduce youth unemployment
YOUTH INSPIRE NEWS RELEASE
12 MAY 2017
Lower Hutt businesses challenged to help reduce youth unemployment
Lower Hutt business leaders will be challenged to collaborate on a youth employment strategy at a breakfast hosted by Mayor Ray Wallace this week.
The challenge came as youth unemployment among Lower Hutt’s 18–24 year olds reached 20 per cent compared with the national average of 14.9 per cent across the same age group.
Lower Hutt Mayor Ray Wallace told business leaders “We can’t afford to not help our young people find their direction. Young people are our future and one organisation keen to help you make a difference is YOUth Inspire.”
YOUth Inspire is working to help young people connect to employment, education and training opportunities through work readiness programmes.
YOUth Inspire Chairman Matt Reid said “there are good businesses out there that recognise the opportunity and are already investing in and training young people to meet their future workforce requirements.
“YOUth Inspire is not just about supporting our young but also supporting business.
“Collaborating together to create a youth employment strategy, businesses, educators and training providers can build stronger career pathways for young people as well as providing businesses with a work-ready skilled workforce, important as we face an aging workforce which will create a skills shortage as baby-boomers retire.”
Operating in Wainuiomata since 2014 YOUth Inspire is expanding throughout Lower Hutt and aims to help 18–24 year olds find pathways to employment. So far 381 young people have been placed into pathways to employment and further education.
Clarkson Electrical manager Phil Dobbin heard about YOUth Inspire and liked the idea of giving a young person a good start. After working with YOUth Inspire Clarkson Electrical now have a young person completing an electrical apprenticeship with them,
Phil Dobbin says “It was all made possible by regular contact and support from YOUth Inspire.”
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