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The development of apprenticeships is at the heart of Sheffield City Council's strategy to support disadvantaged young people into employment.
The number of apprenticeships being created for young people in Sheffield has grown in recent years, bucking the national trend - 8.7 per cent of the city's 16- and 17-year-olds are apprentices compared with eight per cent in the Yorkshire region and 5.9 per cent across England as a whole, according to Department for Education figures published in October.
The council's Apprenticeship Ready programme has been key to this growth. It works with every secondary school, academy and an alternative provision school, alongside further education colleges and sixth forms in the city, talking to pupils in years 11 and 13 about the wide variety of apprenticeships available and supporting them to prepare and apply for positions.
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