Shaw Trust on TV and Radio!

Sally Burton, Chief Executive of Shaw Trust, one of the UK's largest third sector employment service delivery organisations, was interviewed on the BBC News CHannel and on BBC Radio Bristol.

Sally was commeting on new statistics showing a fall in the number of workless househoulds. Sally pointed out that, although the number of workless households has fallen in a year, figures where nobody in a household have ever worked have doubled in the last 15 years.

Sally said:

Looking at this as just an employment issue hasn’t worked in the past and it isn’t working now. Today’s figures may have dropped slightly but between 1997 and 2010 the number of households in which no one has ever worked almost doubled

The shocking thing is where the increases in worklessness are coming, it’s in young people leaving school with few qualifications and few aspirations.

Where whole households are workless there are almost always other associated problems:

o Poor physical or mental health
o Addictive behaviour (gambling, alcohol, drugs)
o No concept of ‘work’, from writing a CV to being in an interview to low education, skills and self-esteem
o Caring responsibility for children/other family members and poor social/community networks

Shaw Trust works to tackle all of these problems and uses employment as the key to unlock independence.

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