With the Future Jobs Fund scrapped and unemployment levels still creeping up, Martin Bright looks at ways the government can offer help – not handouts – to young people
A few weeks ago, London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) hosted a recruitment day to fill ten posts created through New Deal of the Mind (NDotM) and the Future Jobs Fund. Sitting in on interviews provided a harsh reminder of the damage unemployment does to self confidence, but what struck me more was that the LMA had probably never seen so many black and Asian faces. It is a terrible indictment of so much about the arts and heritage world that, despite endless protestations to the... more
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