Chloe Smith MP talking to young people at the Mint project in Norwich. Photo: Bill Smith
Norwich MP is quizzed by young people with learning disabilities on unemployment in the city
Rosa McMahon
Saturday, January 21, 2012
12:16 PM
Chloe Smith, MP for Norwich-North, was at the forum answering questions on unemployment from young people with learning disabilities.
MINT, an employment service based in the Forum, funded by the Skills Funding Agency, help 85 16-25 year-olds in Norfolk who have barriers to employment.
The City College project is run by nine job coach staff, providing a unique service working with local employers.
One of the job coaches, Suzanna Worboys, said a key part of the process was getting to know the individual and understanding the work they were hoping to do. From this, the job coaches help with CVs, application forms, and lots of interview role-play to prepare the young people for work.
Darrell Allen, 17, from Thorpe, has been working with MINT since he left Langley School in July last year. He said: “I am much more confident after working with a job coach. I have had a few job interviews, which I would have found a lot harder to do without the help here. Not getting a job can knock you back, but the job coaches help with that a lot.”
Chloe Smith, also economic secretary to the treasury, was answering the young people’s direct questions in MINT’s training suite, opposite the Forum.
Their pre-pepared questions ranged from what can be done about disability employment in Norfolk, why benefits were being cut, and even her view on the coalition.
Miss Smith said: “More needs to be done in Norfolk, as well as national programmes to help. We need to make it as easy as possible for businesses to expand and grow, so there are even more jobs.”
On recent changes to the disability living allowance, Miss Smith added: “If some people don’t need the money, it can be used elsewhere. Although that’s not to say people don’t need it.”
She praised the the work MINT was doing and the young people for their “enthusiasm and motivation”.
“MINT are doing a vital job in plugging the gap in employment, helping these young people.”
Lee Robinson, MINT project manager, said: “Young people are the future, and it’s so important to us to assist them into work.”
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10 comments
So you meant to call young people with mental problems 'these type of people' and you are pointing fingers at immigrant labourers for there not being enough jobs for young british girls and boys, as you say. I do not agree with you, fact is that many of these youngsters, although without jobs, are being kept in limbo on benefits. Many have become donditioned to being supported and they do not want to work. What shall be done with them?
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ingo wagenknecht
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Ingo, before nuLabour came to power in 97,young Norfolk boys and girls used to fill the many manual jobs that were available. nuLabour and their business chaps and rich farmers wanted a more manageable workforce, one that would shun unions and all the other benefits and conditions that the great British worker striked and strove for during the previous generations and two world wars. nuLabour reintroduced serfdom via the back door with an expendable and throwaway workforce. Other EU power houses said "non" or "nein" to this social dumping on their own workforce. As for no jobs, I agree...that's why the door should be firmly shut on anymore mass migration from former failed Communist bloc countries.
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nrg
Saturday, January 21, 2012
This is the MP from the party who wants to implement the report closing Remploy, yes? Chloe's neat line in hypocrisy continues into 2012.
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PaddyNR1
Saturday, January 21, 2012
This is the MP from the party who wants to implement the report closing Remploy, yes? Chloe's neat line in hypocrisy continues into 2012.
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PaddyNR1
Saturday, January 21, 2012
nrg, what do you know of these 'many of these jobs' and do tell us what your type of person means, when ye talks about 'these type of people'?. There are no enough jobs full stop, and 430.000 youngsters are unemployed, some are very angry and I doubt that Ms.Chloe Smith would dare to talk to the long term unemployed of Norwich North.
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ingo wagenknecht
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Well, well. The EDP's little darling speaks again. I hope she did not "lash" this up like she did the other day (and the EDP did not report it as usual) where although inflation has come down, she thinks that inflation is a good thing. She soon got shouted down by the Tory hirarchy Why ddn;t you report it EDP ?
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"V"
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Never mind eastern Europe, I've heard many a cockney accent in Thetford. In fact some of the Norfolk accents I've heard in Norwich have been a bit suspicious. Would we best off asking everyone whether their "Fa's got a dickie bor" and if they don't know the answer kick em over the county line? Even if they haven't quite finished the open heart surgeryat the N&N on our sick mothers?
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I ronnie
Saturday, January 21, 2012
The iron maiden would've had a plan somewhere bookworm in how to deal with a million unemployed yoof. Her old yts should be resurrected for a start, with no places available for incoming unemployed migrant youth. Astounding news today that over 370,000 migrants are claiming Unemployment Benefit and housing benefit. nuLabour and it's plan to change the face of Britain forever, has certainly succeeded and committed this country to years of youth unemployment and no-hope......" we are all Thatcherites now" Lord Mandelson nuLabour 2002 speech.
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nrg
Friday, January 20, 2012
never diss the Thatch.
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bookworm
Friday, January 20, 2012
Many of these jobs that these type of people use to fill, are now filled by over qualified and fully fit European migrants. Shutting the door on these people is not an option, while we enjoy all the merits of the EU club....As the Thach once said " Generations of people will never know the world of work, get used to it!!"
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nrg
Friday, January 20, 2012