Long-term unemployment down 93k on year- largest annual fall since 1998 according to @ons stats #GetBritainWorking pic.twitter.com/HwKy55aMTy
— DWP Press Office (@dwppressoffice) April 16, 2014
Interesting considering the debate in the council chamber on Wednesday. One of the limiting points in Wakefield has been the number of youngsters who have not had access to a good or outstanding primary or junior school and the impact that has on the aspirations of our young people later in life. The local education authority has been labelled as INEFFECTIVE by OFSTED and the Authority is towards the very bottom of the national table with no great improvements despite spending up to double the amount on school improvements.
Part of the Wakefield problem relates to a conscious decision made in 2005 to put education in the hands of social care professionals a flawed policy that resulted in some Wakefield schools loosing their educational focus. Only recently being remedied but somewhat late for the thousands of young people who could not get the best start in a good or outstanding primary school.
Resulting in our poor local jobs performance and a couple of generations who have been actively discouraged from achievement, by forty years of a Labour administration averaging down.
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