Editor,

My grandson does not want to leave Aberystwyth, but finds himself unable to find permanent employment. Surely, as a percentage of citizens retire, vacant work should be available for my grandson and other people’s grandchildren to find employment, with a living wage?

Surely, those who leave education are an asset and ought not to find it so difficult to find employment in Ceredigion?

During the granting of the compulsory purchase order removing Enid Jones from her home in Glyndwr Road for the Mill Street development, one of the Ceredigion County Council spokesmen said in the tribunal that the development would provide work for our grandchildren to stay and others return to Aberystwyth.

Can a Ceredigion spokesman tell us how many local tradesmen were employed in the construction of the Mill Street development? And in the Parcyllyn developments, extension to Bronglais Hospital and other local developments?

When Ceredigion councillors closed Bodlondeb residential care home, the 50 residents who lived there provided work for 50 local employees. It is still empty! Why?

Do Ceredigion County Council and the Welsh Government have a strategy in place for young adults, who have just left education, to guide and encourage young adults to stay in their local area?

There must be an incentive to encourage a future with employment in Ceredigion.

Dai Thomas, 10 Llwyn-yr-Eos, Southgate, Aberystwyth.

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