Steve Houghton's interim report on local unemployment programmes, published last week, makes for generally-impressive reading. Yorkshiremen are renowned for their frank talking, and Barnsley's leader certainly cuts to the chase in pointing out employment initiatives in deprived areas need more funding and that unsustainable unemployment problems exist within some ethnic minority communities. But Steve - you clearly have spent a little too much time in the company of Whitehall's English language-destroying Sir Humphries. What on Earth does the following paragraph, gleaned from Houghton's summary, actually mean? 'Local authority funding for employment and skills provision is seen as crucial to provide "wraparound" services for engagement activity and to build mainstream activity.'
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