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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Richard Partington Senior economics correspondent

‘Mountain to climb’: how Labour is facing a crisis in youth unemployment

Woman sits with two young people
Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary (left), with Rose Green and another care leaver at the Euston Skills Centre in Camden, north London. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

Getting started in the world of work was not easy for Rose Green. Having experienced half a dozen children’s homes from the age of 13 while growing up in care in north London, finding a career was the last thing on her mind.

“Having that corporate parenting, it can be difficult,” she says. “Sometimes things like completing school, or uni, you’re faced with so much trauma that you haven’t really got the time to finish all of that.

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