Education Secretary Michael Gove last week released a ministerial statement in which he said that while government is committed to raising the age at which young people remain in education or training, it would no longer expect employers to enable 16- and 17-year-olds working more than 20 hours a week to train towards an accredited qualification, from next July.
But Steve Stewart, chief executive of the Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire Partnership, said the number of young people entering full-time employment without additional training is small, but they are some of the most vulnerable.
“Every piece of evidence shows that the first people who get hurt in recessions are the unqualified,” he said. “Young people who have few qualifications and who go in to a ‘dead end job’ are the first to suffer.
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