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If you 15-24 year olds and looking for a career, a good place to start is.

Skills London 2015 is London’s biggest jobs and careers event for young people. Two days of interactive activities and inspiring jobs and careers, held at ExCeL London, for 15-24 year olds and their families.

In 2014, Skills London attracted 32,490 visitors and featured over 45,000 job opportunities, including Apprenticeships, 196 exhibitors including top name employers, colleges, training providers and advisers. The 2015 event takes place on 13-14 November.

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You can download an event guide BELOW. This is a video of the 2014 event. 

Calling all young people under the age of 27

Interested in getting involved in politics - apply to take part in the Labour Youth Conference 2016

The biggest ever Labour Youth Conference will take place on 27 and 28 February in Scarborough How it all works… 

Any young member can apply to be a delegate to the Labour Party Youth Conference from their region or nation, to vote on behalf of other young members. 

Tickets to Youth Conference will go on sale in January, once all the delegate spaces have been confirmed. The price will be £30 and will cover the cost of meals and a social event. Delegates will need to make their own arrangements for travel and accommodation. 

Delegates who are under 18 will need to complete a Parental Consent Form and agree to the Under 18s Code of Conduct prior to attending the event. 

All delegates to the Labour Youth Conference must be under the age of 27 at the time of Youth Conference on the 27th and 28th of February.

To apply go here: http://www.labour.org.uk/page/s/apply-for-youth-conference-2016

Some good news in the US. US Economy Adds 271K Jobs in October 

Nonfarm payrolls increased by 271 thousand in October of 2015, the biggest gain since December and well above market expectations. Job gains occurred in professional and business services, health care, retail trade, food services and drinking places, and construction. The unemployment rate now stands at its lowest level since April 2008 and is in a range many Fed officials see as consistent with full employment.

The U.S. central bank, which has held rates near zero for nearly seven years, has made clear, both in its statement after its October policy meeting and Yellen's subsequent comments, that a rate hike is firmly on the table at the Dec. 15-16 meeting

The Compass London job fair is being held at the London Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square in November 2015.

Update your sector knowledge with one of the seminars, or kickstart your career development by visiting one of the many stands of the country's leading social work and social care organisations.

The 15th annual Jobs Fair is set to be more successful than ever with new exhibitors and and seminar speakers making this event essential for all social work and social care professionals.

Location: London Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square, London W1K 6JP

Extra Info: Free for Job-seekers

The Youthonomics Global Index, compiled by Paris-based think tank Youthonomics, aims to help young people assess their current and future prospects – political, economic and social – around the world.

It assesses 64 countries using 59 criteria, including youth unemployment, economic opportunities, quality and cost of education, housing affordability, age of elected leaders, work and living conditions and health and wellbeing.

"What if the greatest threat we faced was actually a clash of generations?" Youthonomics co-founders Jose Ramos-Horta and Felix Macquardt wrote in the report.

"Our findings show an astonishing callousness towards younger generations, with many developed countries like France, Japan or Italy performing poorly, and others such as the United States or the United Kingdom showing dismal prospects for youth in coming years."

Mr Ramos-Horta is a former president of East Timor and a Nobel peace prize laureate. Mr Marquardt is an activist and columnist.

The Global Index is made up of two scores: one for Youth Now, which evaluates the current state of play; and one for Youth Outlook, which assesses the prospects for young people over the next 10 years or so.

George Osborne should abandon his planned cuts to tax credits and look for the £4.4bn in revenue elsewhere, according to the Resolution Foundation in an article in the Guardian this morning.

The Resolution thinktank was one of the first to warn of the political damage cuts that tax credits could inflict on the chancellor if he pressed ahead with the timetable set out in the summer budget.

It has been looking for an alternative way for the cuts to proceed in order to mitigate the effects and has concluded that there is no effective way of simply tweaking the cuts. It instead proposes changes to taxation thresholds and pensions in an attempt to find the £4.4bn.

By now the Conservatives ought to be getting a very clear message that the public including their own MP’s do not support the cutting of Tax Credits and the harm it will bring to those working. That just some tinkering in the autumn statement, will not be enough.

The new State Pension will be introduced in April 2016. Concerns have been raised that many of those who will be affected by the changes do not know enough about the changes or exactly what they will mean for their pensions, especially people who are close to retirement now and may have done most or all of their retirement planning and saving under the “old” system.

The introduction of the New State Pension from April 2016 is a major reform and will affect millions of people currently of working age. Although in the long term the reforms will simplify the State Pension, the transition period will be long and complex, and there is a lot of uncertainty among people who will be affected about the impact of the reforms, especially for those now closest to State Pension age. While many people are expected to be better off, people with for example less than 10 years of National Insurance contributions will no longer receive any State Pension, and people will no longer be able to count on a percentage of their spouse’s pension after their death. People need a good understanding of what to expect from the New State Pension to aid retirement planning, and avoid confusion and shocks.

Committee renews call for Tax Credit numbers

The Commons Work and Pensions Committee has today written to the Treasury to ask again for information on the numbers of people flowing on and off tax credits, and the average duration of a tax credit claim, which the Treasury has declined to provide in response to Parliamentary questions tabled by Committee members last week.

Frank Field MP, Chair of the Committee, said: “In devising and costing its tax credit reform and amendments to it, the Treasury must have crunched at least some of the numbers around flows of people on and off tax credits, just as they must have the analysis that we and the Treasury Committee have asked for of the true picture of the net impact of the proposed tax credit cuts. So the fact that they have not produced these data must mean either that they are sitting on it for reasons of their own, or that they are going into all these policy changes as blind as we are. Both scenarios are almost equally worrying. I would reiterate our and others’ calls for the Treasury to provide this information urgently, so that we can understand the impact of the changes and the various options for mitigating them that the Chancellor is considering announcing in his Autumn Statement.”

See attatched letter to Damian Hinds MP

Damian Patrick George Hinds (born 27 November 1969) is a British Conservative Party politician and the Member of Parliament (MP) for the East Hampshire constituency. He is Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury.

EVIDENCE SESSION: Benefit delivery

 9.30am, Wednesday 4 November, Wilson Room, Portcullis House

The Work and Pensions Committee is holding an inquiry into the timeliness and accuracy of benefit delivery by the DWP. Potential problems that can arise when benefits are delayed or underpaid include people resorting to food banks for emergency food rations.

This is the second oral evidence session for the inquiry, with organisations who offer benefits advice and support to claimants and the Minister for Welfare Reform. The committee will question the first panel on problems associated with benefit delivery and the impact this can have on claimants. It will then raise the problems involved with benefit delivery with the Minister and discuss potential solutions.

• Inquiry: Benefit delivery
• Work and Pensions Committee
• Watch it here online at the ABC

Witnesses:

At 9.30 am

•          Lorna Gledhill, Regional Asylum Activism Coordinator and member of West Yorkshire Destitute Asylum Network
•          Fabio Apollonio, Project Manager, Policy, research and advocacy, British Red Cross,
•          Phil Reynolds, Disability Benefits Consortium,

At 10.15am

•          Sue McCarron, Wirral Citizens Advice Bureau
•          Lord Freud, Minister for Welfare Reform
•          Andrew Rhodes, Benefits Services Director, Department for Work and Pensions

FURTHER INFORMATION:

 Committee Membership is as follows: 

Frank Field (Labour, Birkenhead) (Chair); Debbie Abrahams (Labour, Oldham East and Saddleworth); Heidi Allen (Conservative, South Cambridgeshire); Mhairi Black (Scottish National Party, Paisley and Renfrewshire South); Ms Karen Buck, (Labour, Westminster North); John Glen (Conservative, Salisbury); Richard Graham (Conservative, Gloucester); Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour, South Shields); Craig Mackinlay (Conservative, South Thanet); Jeremy Quin (Conservative, Horsham); Craig Williams (Conservative, Cardiff North).