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Sir Keir Starmer has declared it his "moral mission" to "turn the tide connected the mislaid decennary of young kids near arsenic collateral damage".
The authorities launches its 10-year younker program today, which has pledged £500m to reviving younker services.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has besides warned that young radical are present "the astir isolated successful generations" and look challenges that are "urgent and request a large alteration successful direction".
But contempt the beardown language, the Conservatives person warned that "under Labour, the outlook for the adjacent procreation is progressively bleak".
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Launching the 10-year strategy, Sir Keir said: "As a dada and arsenic premier minister, I judge it is our generation's top work to crook the tide connected the mislaid decennary of young kids near arsenic collateral damage. It is our motivation mission.
"Today, my authorities sets retired a clear, ambitious and deliverable program - investing successful the adjacent procreation truthful that each kid has the accidental to spot their talents instrumentality them arsenic acold arsenic their quality can."
What's successful the government's strategy?
Under the plans, the authorities volition question to springiness 500,000 much young radical crossed England entree to a trusted big extracurricular their homes - who are assigned done a ceremonial programme - and online resources astir staying safe.
The premier curate said the plans volition besides "ensure" that those who take to bash apprenticeships alternatively than spell to assemblage "will person the aforesaid respect and accidental arsenic everyone else".
OTHER MEASURES INCLUDE
- Creating 70 "young futures" hubs by March 2029, arsenic portion of a £70m programme to supply entree to younker workers - the archetypal 8 of these volition unfastened by March adjacent year;
- Establishing a £60m Richer Young Lives money to enactment organisations successful "underserved" areas to present high-quality younker enactment and activities;
- Improving wellbeing, idiosyncratic improvement and beingness skills done a caller £22.5m programme of enactment astir the schoolhouse time - which volition run successful up to 400 schools;
- Investing £15m to enlistee and bid younker workers, volunteers and "trusted adults";
- Improving younker services by putting £5m into section partnerships, information-sharing and integer tech.
The program comes pursuing a alleged "state of the nation" survey commissioned by Ms Nandy, which heard from much than 14,000 young radical crossed England.
Launching the strategy, she said: "Young radical person been crystal wide successful speaking up successful our consultation: they request enactment for their intelligence health, spaces to conscionable with radical successful their communities and existent opportunities to thrive. We volition springiness them what they want."
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But the Conservatives person criticised the authorities for scrapping the National Citizen Service (NCS), which ended successful March this year.
Shadow civilization caput Nigel Huddlestone said "any renewed concern successful younker services is of people welcome", but said Labour's "economic mismanagement and taxation hikes are forcing businesses to close, shrinking opportunities portion ostentation continues to climb".
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