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2. Submitting evidence. Send any information, including discussion and policy documents and other reports, to the inquiry at the address below, particularly about the Manpower Services Commission and the Youth Training Scheme in your area.

Please write to. National Coordinating Group, Labour Movement Inquiry into Youth Unemployment and Training, c/o Cllr Dave Morgan, Sheffield Please send me months' sub, I enclose £ .. City Council, Employment Committee, Employment To: Socalist Organiser, 28, Middle Lane, London N8 8PI Department, Palatine Chambers, Pinstone St, ShefGet SOCIALIST door by post!

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Addres young people would normally receive.

B) Refuse to enter into negotiations with unemployment benefit office staff on the circumstances of young people leaving a Youth Training Scheme.

C) Refer ex-YTS trainees to local welfare rights agencies with a view to making an appeal against any cut in benefit that may have been imposed."

Birmingham NALGO are also calling on the TUC to campaign for the withdrawal of "approved training" designation from YTS. so that "refusers" can no longer be penalised by the DHSS.

Labour Fightthe ITGWU Women JOBLESS KEY TO Tebbit My Marry Kent's Staan appeal to ORGANISER each week delivered to OVER 50% of under-1 3s, and 25% of under-24s, are unemployed.

A generation of school leavers face long-term unemployment or low-wage, deskilled casual work. They have little or no effective contact with the trade union and labour movement.

The TUC's call for vigilant monitoring of YTS has been taken up by a number of trade union and labour movement bodies, who recently came together at a national meeting on monitoring MSC schemes, sponsored by Sheffield and Rotherham Trades Councils and hosted by Sheffield City Council.

Following that. this Inquiry has been formed with three main aims.

1. To examine state responses to unemployment and training, including YTS, within the context of this government's attempts to undermine wage levels and reduce living standards for working people as a whole.

Z.To exchange information on the various strategies being adopted. particularly within the labour WE HOPE ways: movement, to best monitor these schemes and to collate information about them.

3. To develop a national network to develop such strategies further in order to curb present abuses more effectively (eg. health and safety, job substitution, the role of private training opportunties) and to further protect the interests of all young people.

The Inquiry's overriding aim is to bring together and pass on information from a wide range of sources, eg. educational bodies, voluntary organisations, trade unions, trainees on the YTS. others involved in government measures on unemployment.

Anyone involved with MSC and other schemes realises the importance of this. We will be channelling information through to all levels of the labour movement, locally and nationally, including trade unions and Area Manpower Board members.

support 1. Sponsoring it. Add your name to the who have already made this commitment. field S1 2HN (0742 755215 x 232).

In particular we will be commissioning reports and discussion documents arising from this monitoring work.

We want this evidence to help inform future labour movement policies on youth unemployment and training as well as the day to day work of all those concerned with government special measures.

YOUTH TRAINING SCHEME TRAINEES INFORMATION CARD This card outlines your rights on the Youth Training Scheme All the information given is based on your legal rights and the Manpower Services Commission's rules and guidelines.

THIS CARD IS PUBLISHED BY THE BIRMINGHAM TRADES COUNCIL'S YTS ACTION GROUP. Farther copies of this leafiet are arailable for 2p each.

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