Baroness Sherlock (Lab)

I thank my noble friend for an excellent question. We have to tailor this to where an individual is at. One of the real challenges is that different young people have different barriers on the way. There is an issue with boys in some parts of the country and in some communities, about either higher barriers to work, lower levels of skills or, simply, lower levels of work experience. We are aiming to make this available to every young person in this situation. If a young person is in this situation—they have been looking for work and not getting it—we will expect them to engage and we will challenge and support them. We will not simply challenge them; we will give them the help that they need. We will work with them until they get that. Some of them will want to start with motivation, skills and creating a vision of what is possible. Others will need skills—maybe school did not work for them and maybe they will need a foundation apprenticeship or a short apprenticeship course before going into a full apprenticeship. Maybe they will want an employer willing to take a risk on them—and an employer could do that with this support. I thank my noble friend for raising a very important point; I would be very willing to discuss it more with her at some point.