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UK government eyes jobless 'bootcamps' to fill job gaps
Unemployed Britons will be pushed towards "skills bootcamps" to plug gaps in the labour market left by overseas workers, the work and pensions secretary has announced. The government already runs intensive training "bootcamps" to help people out of work retrain in many sectors, but new plans will focus on jobs hit hardest by labour shortages from new migration rules. Mel Stride said the UK had relied on foreign labour "for too long". The plans, overseen by a new ministerial taskforce headed by Mr Stride, come ahead of official net migration statistics set to be published on Thursday. Labour dismissed the proposals ... (full story)