{
  "id": 16572738,
  "title": "Higher training costs for older workers risks plan to tackle youth jobs crisis, employers say",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/higher-training-costs-for-older-workers-risks-plan-to-tackle-youth",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-26T06:00:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Business",
    "slug": "guardian-business",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/oct/26/training-costs-apprenticeships-older-workers-youth-jobs-crisis-neet"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Exclusive: Ministers planning overhaul of apprenticeship funding to increase cost of over-25s training, Guardian understands Britain’s largest employers have told the government that forcing businesses to pay more to train older workers risks damaging its goal to tackle the youth jobs crisis. The Guardian understands ministers plan to overhaul Labour’s apprenticeship funding scheme to increase…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "More flexible jobs, higher tax relief among measures to help older workers stay employed",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/more-flexible-jobs-higher-tax-relief-among-measures-to-help-older",
        "published": "2026-10-26T05:30:22.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}