Due to these statistics the 32% of uneducated youth with no vocational and life skills, make a lot of individuals who are vulnerable to unemployed or inactive with females forming the majority.

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The biggest barrier to full employment was not a shortage of jobs but the shortage of skills among those who were unemployed and economically inactive.

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She said it was important that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) had continual support from both the Welsh and UK governments as they were key "pathways to employment for the unemployed and those who have been economically inactive for a long time".

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