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Sector can apply for Youth Contract scheme
The employment minister has indicated that voluntary organisations are eligible to apply for subsidies to employ young people as part of the government's Youth Contract.
The three year scheme will give employers subsidies worth £2,275 per person to take on 18 to 24-year-olds for six months. The Department for Work and Pensions had been unable to say whether voluntary organisations would be included in the scheme when it was launched.
Third Sector news item http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/Management/article/1108053/ at 7th December states that NCVO was still in talks with the DWP about the details of the Youth Contract.
