Positive Steps visit European Parliament

Positive Steps, an organisation which works with young people from Rochdale to get them on the right track and fulfil their potential, has visited the European Parliament in Brussels.

Local Euro MP Arlene McCarthy who hosted the visit for them said: “With youth unemployment at an all time high the work that Positive Steps does with young people to help them make the right choices and build positive futures is vital.”

“I am delighted that they have brought a group to Brussels to find out for themselves what our membership of the European Union means for young people in Oldham.”

Arlene added: "One in four young people active in the labour market in the North West are unemployed, the highest level for almost 25 years. Labour Euro MPs have called on the British government to use the UK's share of the €6 billion Youth Guarantee funds to save a generation of young people in our region."

“Young people are top of our agenda in the European Parliament and I want the young people who have visited today have gone away knowing that their future is our priority.”