Pay & finance24 June 202615 reads

New deal for young people

The government has announced a new deal for young people, aiming to provide real work opportunities. This initiative seeks to end the 'degree by default' culture, promoting alternative paths to success. By doing so, it hopes to create a renewed social contract where hard work is rewarded. The focus is on delivering a range of opportunities for young people to gain skills and experience. This move is expected to have a positive impact on youth apprenticeships, providing a more diverse range of options for young people to pursue.

Public-sector hiring right now

GovJobs is tracking 11,336 open public-sector vacancies today, 6,557 of them added in the past seven days. Across the adverts that publish a salary, the median advertised starting figure is £32,909.

The organisations recruiting most heavily right now are Ministry of Justice (198), Highland Council (195), Leicestershire County Council (172) and East Sussex County Council (126).

Geographically the roles cluster in Scotland (1,715), North West (1,634), South East (1,210), London (1,127).

Training and apprenticeship routes are advertised alongside standard vacancies rather than separately, and often close earlier because intakes are fixed to a start date. Apply as early in the window as you can.

These figures are counted from the GovJobs index at the time you loaded this page, not from official statistics, and they change daily. They are our own analysis and are not part of the announcement summarised above.

Summarised by GovJobs from GOV.UK, under the Open Government Licence (OGL v3). Drafted with AI from the official source material.

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