ABSTRACT
By the time this chapter is read it is quite likely that Youth Training (YT) will have become history, one of the more expensive policy failures of the 1980s and 1990s. Whichever party is governing Britain is likely to have introduced a new package of measures for the twentyfirst century, or so the launch will have said. We are likely to have been told that the latest package really will widen the life chances of disadvantaged young people and equip Britain with a world-class work-force. The same claims were made when the Youth Training Scheme (as it was called until 1990) began in 1983.
