We felt that the role of traineeships was important.
The means of preventing exclusion is to offer permanent or temporary work, vocational training and/or apprenticeships, traineeships and specialized training as an employment measure.
I should like to see further development of the segmented craft engineering traineeships by companies.
We are also replacing youth training with national traineeships: high quality, work-based training developed in partnership with employers, including key skills.
It would, therefore, help the totally respectable companies, those which are within the training schemes, paying the levy, and offering traineeships.
From there, the traineeship principle should be developed.
It is clear that the problem of accrediting skills is a very topical one, and that it does not relate only to traineeships.
The next step after entry may well be into a national traineeship—but might equally be back into full-time education.
