More money for more schemes. This equals more money for some private job scheme firm that will no doubt make plenty of money for themselves.

The money should be given to goverment funded colleges(not bogus ones) to help those that have fallen out of training. Education and job placements perhaps for unemployed under 25's.

But keep giving private companies the money- they are a con. I attended some of these unemployment courses run by these private firms and they were mostly scams. But paid for by the government. Basically, an office, a phone, a pile of paper, some stamps and a local paper. People from 16 to 65, all lumped together. These private firms are paid to get you to come to their office to sign your name, so you can pay 10p for a tea, have a fag outside if you so wish and they get money for you attending. Yippee clegg is going to fund some more of these. Do some political friends need jobs? Open a job start firm perhaps? 100 million- yes please!

Instead- Open up job centres, staffed by friendly locals and hold job fairs there and get colleges and employers in when people sign on. Like the good old days. I used to go in to the job centre and a friendly face would help you try and get a local job. Phone up for you, give you directions and help for the interview and/or tell you about courses and discuss long term career aims.

Careers advice in schools and colleges. The careers officer we had in school, knew less than the kids. No help whatsoever.

Also, if you teach kid's word processing and citizenship, they are not likely to be mechanics, builders, nurses, engineers or computer scientists.

Children in the uk are not taught the subjects and skills needed for the global workplace. Careers advice is awful and often useless, inaccurate and missing from schools and colleges.

Job centres are closed and you have to go online or phone to apply and there is little help for younger people. That's what is wrong for starters.

Not everyone wants a 9-5 job with a pension plan at the end of it. Many of the worlds most innovative and creative people have never had a 9-5 job in their lives. My point is that many of these 'Neets' are not unemployed because they don’t want to work - its because the cheap labour market they normally occupy doesn't want to employ them anymore. The casual jobs market that neets would have normally taken up in the past are no longer accessable to them. These casual jobs were often taken by Neets in the past because it either afforded them the opportunity to do other things they preferred to do but they couldn't earn a living (for example: playing in a rock band) or the casual job just provided them with some time and cash on the hip until they decided what they wanted to do with their lives.

Btw: Why do you think Nick Clegg is offering £2000 cash 'reward' to business for hiring 'Neets'? Because he knows full well that most of the regulation and red tape that puts companies off employing Neets is legislation that is coming from the EU and not the UK - our wise and trusted politicians have signed us up to so many treaties that has handed over so much of our own legislation making powers to Brussels that there is not a damn thing Cameron, Clegg or Miliband can do about it ... except that is, offer companies bribes to employ young people who are on the dole.