06/12/11…Councillor suggests using under-spend on apprenticeships

A councillor is to ask South Oxfordshire District Council to use money underspent last year to help the district’s unemployed young people, whose numbers have doubled in the past year, by creating apprenticeships.

The following Motion will be presented to the Council when it meets on Thursday, December 15.

To consider the following motion submitted by Mrs J (Jennifer) Wood under Council procedure
rule 12.2:

?Council notes that the latest statistics show that in the UK there are over one million young people between the ages of 16 – 24 who are not in work – some of whom have NEVER been in work. Unemployment in South Oxfordshire has doubled over the past year. During the audit process Council was informed there had been an under spend in the fiscal year to end March 2011 of