Ensuring good quality traineeships

By: Lindsay Plumpton

Communications Leader

Wednesday 16 October 2013

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MEPs have made a number of recommendations to tackle the issue of youth unemployment, advising that we’re in need of further measures to help young people move into work.

‘Youth guarantee’ schemes currently aim to ensure that young people under the age of 25 are offered a job, training, or a traineeship within 4 months of becoming unemployed. MEPs have now proposed that these schemes should be extended to include graduates under 30 years old.

As part of the discussion, MEPs also emphasised the need to modify national education systems to labour market needs, and called for greater recognition of the skills gained outside formal education eg through work based training.

It was also suggested that we need to introduce increased protection for trainees in the workplace with quality standards for pay, working conditions and health and safety, as well as EU support for good-quality traineeships and apprenticeships.

What do you think of the MEP suggestions?

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Lindsay Plumpton

Communications Leader
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David Grailey

Chief Executive
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Andrew Gladstone-Heighton

Policy Leader
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Esme Winch

Managing Director
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Michael Lemin

Policy and Research Manager
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