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• Di commented on 9 Oct 2010:

  The only way that we will create new jobs in the Forest is if we are able to attract new investment into the area. As councillors we have to work with business and education providers to train young people with the right skills and encourage them to gain as many qualifications as possible but above all to work with the government to push for the area to be assisted in bringing employers and industry back here. This will not be easy as the Country has been in recession and unemployment is growing. There are many young people who have never worked and this cannot be right in a so called civilised society.

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• Len commented on 9 Oct 2010:

  Hi jedc. You are correct young people do need jobs both here in the Dean and across the country. Governments and politicians however are not the people to create jobs, why? Because were not very good at it. Some governments “create” jobs that without injections of public money wouldn’t survive. What governments local and national can do is provide the environment for businesses to start up, survive and grow. In doing this employment prospects for young and old alike improve. What we should do locally is try as hard as we can to do things to encourage businesses to come to the Dean, better Broadband, better road links, a well educated workforce that wants to work, housing that people can afford to buy.
  What do you think?

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• Bruce commented on 10 Oct 2010:

  This district needs to attract inward investment and to help our small businesses grow. The district council needs to sell the Forest of Dean as a great place to live work and play. We need to lobby hard to improve our infrastructure, including broadband speeds. Economic regeneration is a discretionary function for the council, (a service that we are not required by law to provide), but it has always been my number one priority.

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