Steve Stewart, who is also head of Connexions Coventry and Warwickshire, said the plan to replace work-based learning payments with allowances next year will provide young people with less incentive to get first-hand experience within the workplace.
Under the present system, 16- to 18-year-olds who are not in full-time education or training can get 40 to 50 a week to do work-based learning through Connexions. But from April 2006 these payments will be replaced by education maintenance allowances, which means young people on placements will be eligible for a maximum of 30 a week.
See Numbers game, p5.
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