Generation economically ‘scarred’ by pandemic );
UNEMPLOYMENT among young people in South Oxfordshire has risen sharply during the coronavirus pandemic.
The number of 16- to 24-year-olds claiming job-related benefits has increased by more than 200 per cent in the past year.
Research by the Prince’s Trust shows that the under-25s account for three in five of the people who lost jobs during the crisis.
At the same time, many graduates who left university last summer have struggled to find work and this summer a fresh cohort of graduates will join the jobs market.
They include 24-year-old Ella Shearman, of Milton Close, Henley, who graduated from Kingston School of Art in June with the hope of realising her long-held ambition of a career in fashion.