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This white paper sets out the UK government's agenda for capturing the jobs of the future and investing in families, communities and citizens throughout their lives to help them get on and ahead. Key measures include: (1) early years: supporting child development; (2) world class schools; (3) transition to work (creating 35,000 new apprenticeship places so that all qualified young people will have a right to an apprenticeship by 2013; a new guarantee for high potential young people from low income backgrounds to get the help they need to get to university; and a full time community volunteering programme for people not in education, employment or training in 33 local authorities); (4) getting on in work (establishing a panel that will identify and remove the barriers that prevent fair access to professional jobs; enabling professionals to retrain and gain new skills by trebling the number of Professional and Career Development Loans from 15,000 to 45,000 in the next two years); and (5) supporting families (a back to work training entitlement for parents and carers; an employment support program for young people leaving care; and a communities fund to tackle deprivation on the worst estates and build thriving and sustainable communities).