The Local Government Association (LGA) said the current system is over-complicated, with 35 different national schemes across 13 different age boundaries costing £15bn a year. Research by the LGA also shows a drop of 8% in the number of young people in England who started a scheme last year compared with three years ago. The government has insisted it is not complacent about youth unemployment. The LGA said 50,000 fewer jobless young people are getting help from job schemes today, than was the
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Government figures show the number of people sleeping rough in England has increased by a third since 2010. In London alone, 6,437 people slept rough during 2012-13, a 62% rise in two years. Campaigners say there is a risk this trend could continue, given youth unemployment, the economic downturn and the pressures on low income families, combined with changes within welfare reform, reduction of public services and the general squeezing of housing supply and affordability of accommodation. The official figures do
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