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To: UK Government
Help more young people find suitable apprenticeships!
Stop putting up apprenticeships, for retail and admin posts. Only put up apprenticeships for learning a trade, or becoming a supervisor/manager.
Why is this important?
This is important because many young people are being taken advantage of through these types of apprenticeships that require no skis to lean and can be completed in as short as time as two months. There are companies who are keeping individuals on for longer to earn the funding and gain cheep or free labour. This is unfair and unjust because these apprenticeships are meant to teach you new skills and offer you a chance at progressing. These types of apprenticeships give you next to none of those.
This is what happened during my apprenticeship. My original tutor was let go because they entered into an agreement to keep me there for over a year so the company could earn the funding as they were struggle with money, I was told this by my new tutor. I was on three pounds per hour for nearly six months, being told they would promote me to a supervisor position because of my hard work and dedication. This never happened, there was no progression and I learned nothing new about the customer service industry.
After my apprenticeship had ended I felt a lack of confidence in myself due to the amount I had been exploited in my place of work. After seeing a documentary two years later I learnt the horrid truth of the sheer amount of companies that set up these apprenticeship schemes, taking full advantage of young, vulnerable individuals.
I feel that these types of action should are going against the purpose of apprenticeship schemes. These schemes are are being used against young people, lowering their confidence, prolonging training to enhance profits whilst maintaining false promises. The skills in a customer service role such as retail, hospitality and administration take weeks to learn not a full year. Please let us only allow apprenticeships that can develope young people into supervisors, managers or teach them a trade whilst nurturing their confidence and knowledge.
This is what happened during my apprenticeship. My original tutor was let go because they entered into an agreement to keep me there for over a year so the company could earn the funding as they were struggle with money, I was told this by my new tutor. I was on three pounds per hour for nearly six months, being told they would promote me to a supervisor position because of my hard work and dedication. This never happened, there was no progression and I learned nothing new about the customer service industry.
After my apprenticeship had ended I felt a lack of confidence in myself due to the amount I had been exploited in my place of work. After seeing a documentary two years later I learnt the horrid truth of the sheer amount of companies that set up these apprenticeship schemes, taking full advantage of young, vulnerable individuals.
I feel that these types of action should are going against the purpose of apprenticeship schemes. These schemes are are being used against young people, lowering their confidence, prolonging training to enhance profits whilst maintaining false promises. The skills in a customer service role such as retail, hospitality and administration take weeks to learn not a full year. Please let us only allow apprenticeships that can develope young people into supervisors, managers or teach them a trade whilst nurturing their confidence and knowledge.
