Eight more students aged between 17 and 20 have just started the three-year course, and will be supervised on work placements until their Criminal Records Bureau security clearance comes through.
Total funding of about 360,000 has been sourced, with just under half of it coming from the European Social Fund (ESF). The rest of the money was secured in partnership with local voluntary organisations, which submitted separate funding applications.
Three students will take the course courtesy of New Deal for Communities funding, two via the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund, one through the YWCA, with two being funded completely through ESF money.
A first tranche of cash, for a three-year pilot project for eight young people, was initiated in 2000, with all funding that time coming from the Single Regeneration Budget. It was used to employ a youth apprenticeship manager, Matt Walsh, and provide the young students with JNC1 trainee-scale salaries during their course.
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