When the promise of qualifications and better job prospects don't cut it, how can reluctant young people be lured into education or training?
One way, according to the government, is to pay them. And, surprisingly enough, it works.
Last week, the Department for Children, Schools and Families published an evaluation of its £80m Learning Agreement pilot scheme. It was aimed at young people who are in jobs without training and who are considered more at risk of ending up not in education, employment or training (Neet).
But just 9,500 young people - or seven per cent of those eligible - have signed up and so far only around 3,000 young people have gained a qualification from the scheme. Given the £80m outlay, that amounts to spending of more than £25,000 per young person (CYP Now, 5-11 February 2009).
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