Sainsbury’s Creates 10,000 Work Experience Opportunities Amid UK Youth Jobs Crisis

Sam Williamson: Labour's work experience plans are a sticking plaster solution

Sam Williamson is a writer and a former research intern at the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS). His Substack can be found here. Labour’s promise of 10,000 work experience opportunities at Sainsbury’s will do nothing to transform the reality of rising youth unemployment until the government examines its own record. The number we should be talking about instead is the rise in youth unemployment. According to ONS figures, youth unemployment grew by…

Sainsbury’s Creates 10,000 Work Experience Opportunities Amid UK Youth Jobs Crisis

Sainsbury’s is creating around 10,000 work experience opportunities for young people across the UK as employers face growing pressure to rebuild routes into work. Sainsbury’s has launched a major new work experience programme designed to give thousands of young people practical exposure to the workplace as concerns grow over the disappearance of traditional routes into employment. The supermarket group’s new KickStarter programme, together with …