Three parts of Bristol have much higher numbers of young people who are not working, studying or training than the rest of the city. The study looked at the divide in areas of the city of Bristol and how it impacted unemployment and education rates with some wards in the city with as many as 71 young people not in education or employment.
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00:00Three parts of Bristol have much higher numbers of young people who are not working,
00:06studying or training than the rest of the city. New figures show that the shocking divide between
00:13richer and poorer parts of Bristol, with some areas home to many who struggle to find a job.
00:20Oh, totally. Yeah, yeah. Mine are not that young any longer, but I mean they are, you know, 26 and 31
00:31and the boy has gone to London to get work and my daughter who's 31, she's struggling.
00:42She's a chippy. She's a joiner and she's finding it quite hard to find work.
00:50Regular basis. What about young people who choose not to be employed and not to go into education?
00:56Is that something that worries you? I'm not sure what that's about, you know. I think it's to do
01:03with, you know, why they do that and I'm not really up on why they do that. I have some ideas but,
01:12you know, I don't really know. Yes, but I know the government is working on apprenticeships
01:17and more help needs to be done as a generation who's come through Covid.
01:21So they've missed out on that face-to-face teaching, so they need help between their
01:29sort of 16s to 20s. Yeah, I would say so, especially with like degrees and things being in the media
01:36that they're not useful and university cuts and things. So yeah, it's quite daunting.
01:43Would you like more to be done to kind of help young people get into employment?
01:47Yeah, like career services and things I think would be really, really useful.
01:51The top three wards for young people not in education, employment or training are
01:57Hartcliffe and Withywood, the 71, Avonmouth and Lawrence Western with 70 and Fillwood with 53.
02:05But are locals concerned about young people who are not working, studying or training?
02:10Um, I don't know. I haven't really thought much about it. I think it's really, really difficult
02:16to choose what to do these days. I think going back into education is kind of just quite an easy
02:21route. It's not something that you think about too much, I guess, whereas unemployment you kind
02:26of have to think about a bit more. So, I mean, if it's a choice that they, if it's a choice,
02:32like, again, go back to my daughter. She was in no big hurry to go and get work.
02:36She, you know, she did enjoy a few years of what she would felt as, you know, freedom to move around,
02:47find out things after her formal education. And then she went to, you know, she went back to
02:53university and she wasn't in a hurry, in other words.