Health and safety rules are preventing young people from getting valuable work experience, Prime Minister David Cameron has said. The Telegraph reports that Cameron, speaking at an event in Preston, also called on schools to do more to teach children about business. He said: “We need to encourage businesses to offer that work experience, we need to simplify health and safety rules, we need to say to schools, ‘every school should have a plan for how you are going to teach children about enterprise and business’.”
Plans to create an official register for parents of home-schooled children in Wales have been shelved following opposition. The BBC reports that Welsh education minister Leighton Andrews has removed the idea from upcoming legislation. Opponents of the register argued it amounted to a licensing scheme for home educators.
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