Whilst the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced his ‘Plan for Jobs’ in July 2020, there has not yet been an increase in traineeships as promised; the Department for Education have recently announced which providers will receive the extra traineeship money.

The Learning and Work Institute warns of a lack of cohesiveness between the policies aimed at youth employment, and that this will affect what a young person is offered: it “will depend on which bit of the system they access, rather than what they actually need”.

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