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Tough Tory plan for young jobless

The Conservatives are bringing forward tough new proposals on work schemes for jobless young people.
Anyone under 21 unemployed for three months would be sent to a specialist employer for an intensive programme of work-related activity.
If they were still jobless after a year they would be moved to a full-time 12-month community work programme.
Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Chris Grayling said there was no excuse for fit young people to be out of work.
"But we all know that on a typical working day, you can see young people hanging around in town centres in almost every part of this country," he claimed.
'Street-corner culture'
Mr Grayling added: "This approach is designed to recognise that whilst young people may not always get the job they want immediately, they are better off in a job and looking to move on than languishing outside of the work place.
"If they drop out of work again there will be even tougher limits on the amount of time they can spend at home on benefits.
"Indeed, many will be referred straight back on to a structured return-to-work programme or a community work programme.
"Doing nothing will not be an option. So they simply won't have a chance to become detached from the work place and from preparation for work."
The Tories said they would also stop people signing off benefits just before the deadline for the New Deal, then signing back on soon after.
Mr Grayling said: "With this approach, for those who are struggling there will be real help. For those who are not there will be no opt-outs."
The Conservatives would end the "street-corner benefit culture among young people which this government has left to fester for the past 11 years", he added.

BBC NEWS | Politics | Tough Tory plan for young jobless

No more free loading off the state playing the system if people expect society to pay to keep them they should give something back to society ,more common sense from the Conservatives
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