Freephone service busy
PA Wellington Employment Freephone, set up to give young people information about the Government’s new range of job-training schemes, is attracting about 100 calls a day. The Minister of Education, Mr Marshall, said staff running the service were stretched, and an extra person was taken on to help cope with the calls. The foundation, job skills, and regular vocational courses were being
“rushed” and polytechnics and community colleges had more applications than they could cope with. Freephone is part of a $700,000 campaign to fight unemployment by persuading young people to return to school or to enrol for further training with polytechnics and the Labour and Maori Affairs departments. The aim of the service was to match the needs of callers with the most suitable of the new job-train-ing schemes now being offered, he said.
Most calls were from those aged 15 to 17. Many calls also came from those aged 18 to 21, some of whom had been unemployed for up to two years.
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Press, 24 February 1987, Page 4
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