UK government’s Kickstart project designed to find 250,000 places led to less than 500 starting work in region, official figures reveal
A government scheme to create 250,000 jobs for young people in the wake of the pandemic has led to fewer than 500 actually starting posts in one of the regions most vulnerable to the crisis, the Observer can reveal.
Amid warnings that the young will face the brunt of the economic fallout from the pandemic, official figures disclose that only 490 people have started jobs created by the Kickstart scheme in the north-east of England.
