Abstract
In 1977 the Manpower Services Commission published the Holland Report on Young People at Work which proposed a new programme to give unemployed young people the chance to gain work experience or to attend courses that would help prepare them for work. The Youth Opportunities Programme (YOP) was accordingly set into operation from 1 April 1978, and it provided schemes of work experience or work preparation for some 162,200 young persons in 1978/9 and for 216,400 in 1979/80. The programme has continued to expand and in its fourth year of operation (1981/2) it is planned to cater for 440,000 entrants. YOP did not start from scratch; one of the main proposals of the Holland Report was to rationalise and coordinate the wide variety of special programmes that already catered for young people. However the Report proposed that these schemes should be extended, and it suggested additional objectives for the new programmes. One set of objectives concerned the kinds of young people for whom the schemes should be provided.
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