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The £1.9bn plan to get youth into work has helped fewer people than predicted, a group of MPs says.
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The Kickstart scheme launched in the pandemic to get young people into work has been panned by the Public Accounts Committee. The latter have criticised the £1.9 billion plan, which was originally intended to help 250,000 young people into work, has actually only got 130,000 people back into work - and will only end up getting 168,000 people into work.
As ever, policy interventions in this area are well meaning, but difficult to effect: at present it has cost around £14,000 per young person helped. Does that represent a reasonable opportunity cost or government failure? I leave that to you.