Milburn urged to recommend return of EMA

14 July 2011 1 min read Andy Hillier Education Youth Work Participation

Members of the British Youth Council (BYC) have urged the government's social mobility tsar Alan Milburn to call for the education maintenance allowance (EMA) to be reinstated as part of his review into improving social mobility.

During a meeting on Tuesday (12 July), eight youth councillors told Milburn about the difficulties groups such as young people in care, those with disabilities and those on low incomes face when applying for university.

The young people’s ideas to remove barriers included reinstating the EMA, supporting university students to go back to their local schools and talk about their university experience, and creating more free university outreach activities such as summer schools. The BYC members also raised the issue of the cost of attending university open days and the patchy careers advice in schools about what are the right qualifications for university courses.

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