Rejected petition Compulsory community work for school leavers without a job

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The government should remove benefits from school leavers. Those aged 16 to 24 who do not sign up for further education, apprenticeship schemes, training or have a job should then be made to do community work. If they refuse, their benefit should be stopped. There is so much work that needs doing around towns & cities the unemployed should be used as a 'taskforce' to be deployed wherever needed. Cleaning graffiti, picking up litter, maintaining parks & gardens, clearing snow & ice in Winter etc etc.

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Date submitted 23 August 2011
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