Teach job skills in schools to reduce benefits bill

A senior MP, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, has proposed teaching children as young as 12 job skills to help reduce the rising benefits bill. He suggests job center staff should visit schools to educate students about employment opportunities. A report from the Centre for Social Justice highlights areas with high unemployment, where some families have been jobless for generations. In places like Grimsby and Birkenhead, over half the population relies on out-of-work benefits. The report emphasizes that the issue of unemployment in these regions is not only systemic but has also become a cultural problem.