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The government is to fund 200 new football league jobs for the young unemployed, work and pensions secretary Yvette Cooper has announced.
As part of the £1bn Future Jobs Fund, each of the 72 clubs in the Championship, League One and League Two will recruit up to three new members of staff.
A further 2,000 positions will be created within community sports, providing the young unemployed with the opportunity to gain coaching and training skills, to be used for charities and public bodies.
The jobs have been created through a government partnership between the Football League Trust and the National Skills Academy for sports.
Two-thirds of the 150,000 jobs set up under the Future Jobs Fund have been allocated for young people, able to apply for roles once they have been unemployed for 10 months.
And the further 50,000 positions have been allocated to unemployment blackspots.
The work and pensions secretary said the government is "determined to do everything" it can to help young people find employment in the downturn.
"Never again must we see a generation lost to work as we did in the 80s and 90s," she explained.
"That's why its so important that sports clubs across the country have now signed up to do their bit to give thousands of young people a kick start in their careers."
Further jobs are also to be announced in horticulture, renewable energy, construction and within the NHS.
Dods Parliamentary Communications Ltd
Stephen R Hillier
22nd Sep 2009 at 1:37 pm