
Policy aims to support one million young people not in employment, education, or training with subsidized private sector roles.
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The number of 16-24-year-olds not in employment, education, or training has risen since the Covid pandemic to nearly one million.
Young people would be offered a guaranteed two-year job within four months of leaving education or training, under a new proposal unveiled by the Green Party.
Announcing the policy at the party's conference in Brighton, co-deputy leader Mothin Ali said there were a million "bored, desperate and lost" young people who were out of work, training or education.
Under the proposed scheme, youngsters would be offered posts in the private sector, with the government paying half their salary.
The Greens have not specified a budget for the policy, but have argued it would reduce spending on welfare and boost tax receipts from employment.
The party says it would initially target the plan in areas with the fewest jobs openings for young people, citing Rotherham, Ceredigion, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Broxtowe and South Staffordshire, with an ambition to roll it out nationwide.
Employers would be exempt from paying National Insurance contributions, but would have to provide in-job training, the party says.
The party is seeking to pitch the plan as more ambitious than the government's own scheme, which subsidises six-month job placements for benefit claimants who have been looking for work for 18 months.
Ali also criticised ministers for previously suggesting youngsters refusing a role under that scheme could lose access to benefits, telling activists: "Threatening young people with cuts to Universal Credit if they don't accept short-term work placements - that's not a youth strategy."
He added: "Working class kids should be able to dream. But more than dream, they should have a genuine chance of making those dreams a reality."
The number of 16-24-year-olds who are not in employment, education or training has been rising since the Covid pandemic, with figures reaching almost one million.
A long-awaited report into the problem by former Labour minister Alan Milburn is expected to be published this autumn.

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