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Creating opportunities for people facing barriers in life has never been more important, says Wates’ Su Pickerill
The pandemic has made the world a more difficult place to live in. We’re unable to see our friends and family, many have faced furlough or redundancy and our health and wellbeing is being tested on a global scale.
The impact has been particularly severe on those people on margins of society. According to the ONS, half a million more people in the UK are out of work since the pandemic and about 60% of those are young people under 25.
This rise in unemployment places those confronted with additional barriers even further back in the queue. Care leavers, ex-offenders, ex-services, people dealing with homelessness or living with disability - those without a network, without a guiding hand and without the bank of mum and dad - are now facing fewer routes to employment and greater obstruction to social mobility.
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