You're hired - apprenticeships in London

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We have found that apprenticeships play an important part in providing the skills that London's employers and London's economy need, and helping young people get into skilled jobs and careers. But we have made some recommendations that seek to overcome some problems we have identified:

• The Learning and Skills Council should work with employers to overcome misconceptions and fears about what is involved in taking on an apprentice.
• The Learning and Skills Council should also work with schools, careers services and young people to make sure that school leavers know about apprenticeships as a chance to work, get skills and earn money at the same time, and don't just think they are 'something for people who have failed their GCSEs'.
• Apprenticeships should be designed so that young people can move from one college or employer to another and still keep the credit for what they have learnt and achieved. This will help stop so many having to drop out and not finish their apprenticeship.
• The Learning and Skills Council should set out more clearly to deal with the situations where some apprenticeships recruit mostly young women, some mostly young men, and some overwhelmingly recruit white people.
• The Government should not impose crude targets for the numbers of people doing apprenticeships. Planning should be based from the start on the specific skills needs of London's industries and communities.