20% British youth unemployed

Image by Getty Images via @daylifeBritain is heading for another decade of youth unemployment with the related rate rising to over 20% to be unemployed, according to the ONS. Details given out by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggested the number of young people who are long-term unemployed is likely to increase by 50% in 2011.

A prospectus issued by the Department for Work and Pensions predicted that between 140,000 and 200,000 young people aged from 18 to 24 will be registered as having been unemployed for at least nine months or more between 2011-12.

The statistics would simply mean that one out of five young people in Britain will have no job prospects next year. Figures also reveal that in some areas, every third young person will be without a job or the chance of a skill. More...