back to search results

A New Report Just Out States That It Is Easier For A White Youngster To Get A Job Than For A Black One

1985 , Wellingborough (Northamptonshire)

Cat no. 34134

No video

There’s no web video for this work.

Please do get in contact to discuss other ways you could view this work.

Interview about the report findings and recommendations for the future.

This news story opens with pages of a newly published report titled ‘Sixteen-Up: A Comparative Study of Black and White Young People at Sixteen’. This gathers statistics which show that white young people in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire are ten times more likely to get a job than black young people, and that white people are more likely to secure places on the Youth Training Scheme. The Community Relations Council has called this a scandal and blames employers, the careers service and YTS for failure to take racial equality seriously. Tom Newton, Employment Officer and author of the report, says the situation is unchanged since a similar survey three years earlier. His conclusion is that black young people are being discriminated against by local employers. He recommends that the careers service and YTS review their procedures for allocating jobs and that YTS look at ways of attracting black young people. The careers centre say that a new careers officer will be appointed to focus on people from ethnic minorities. Scenes of young people on the streets of Wellingborough and in a shopping centre illustrate this story. The reporter was John Kiddey for this video made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.

Keywords

Racial equality; Racial discrimination; Young people; Employment; Training schemes; Careers services

Manifestations

A New Report Just Out States That It Is Easier For A White Youngster To Get A Job Than For A Black One

Copyright restrictions apply.

Please see our terms of use. Films on this website are provided for personal viewing. Should you wish to use the films in any other way please contact eafa@uea.ac.uk

terms of use
The data for this page was generated on 22/11/2024 15:18:25+00:00. Click to regenerate this page .