{"id":19582,"date":"2018-02-23T13:56:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T13:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=19582"},"modified":"2018-02-24T08:04:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T08:04:06","slug":"better-school-careers-advice-could-help-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/better-school-careers-advice-could-help-employment\/","title":{"rendered":"Better school careers advice &#8216;could help employment&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pupils\u00a0need to be given better careers advice in schools to combat unemployment, an education charity has said. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>School of Hard Knocks Cymru said more needed to be done following a rise in unemployment in Cardiff for the first time since 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The overall rate in Wales rose to 5% in December 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Welsh Government were unavailable for comment. <\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The charity&#8217;s director Catryn Grundy said: &#8220;I definitely think there&#8217;s a shortage of really specific support to address some of those more complex barriers to employment. It&#8217;s about giving more intensive support to a fewer number of people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Grundy said that from her experience with job centres, she thinks they seem to be frustrated and underfunded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s always more to be done,&#8221; Ms Grundy added.<\/p>\n<p>Figures from the Office of National Statistics released this week showed the\u00a0unemployment rate in Wales rose to 5%\u00a0in December 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate in Wales is one of the highest in the UK &#8211; only Yorkshire\u00a0and Humberside, West Midlands and North East England are higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pupils\u00a0need to be given better careers advice in schools to combat unemployment, an education charity has said. School of Hard Knocks Cymru said more needed to be done following a rise in unemployment in Cardiff for the first time since 2016. The overall rate in Wales rose to 5% in December 2017. The Welsh Government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[814,827,606,41,244],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19582"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19629,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19582\/revisions\/19629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}