NHS Trust To Buy £400,000 Yacht

Hull Teaching Primary Care Trust is behind the scheme designed to help improve the long-term health prospects of teenagers.
It aims to remove 150 jobless people, initially those aged 17 to 19, from the unemployment register each year and engage them in training.
Ten week programmes would include two weeks at sea on the yacht, like those used in the round-the-world Clipper race, operated by a new organisation called the Wilberforce Sailing Academy.
The £400,000-a-year running costs would also be met from public funds.
One Hull, a body involving public, private and voluntary bodies, has already earmarked 1.345 million pounds to cover running the yacht until March 2011.
Steve Brady, leader of Hull city council's Labour group, said: "What I am absolutely concerned about is the misuse of public money.

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