§ Mr. Baldryasked the Secretary of State for Employment what type of youth training scheme provision it is intended to make for school leavers who have completed a technical and vocational education initiative course.
§ Mr. Peter MorrisonThe technical and vocational education initiative comprises individual pilot projects, the first of which began in September 1983, run by local education authorities. Each provides four-year programmes, starting at age 14, of general, technical and vocational education.
A young person completing a TVEI course would be aged 18 and therefore generally not eligible for the youth training scheme which, apart from some limited exceptions, is open only to 16-year-old school leavers and unemployed 17-year-old school leavers.
Many young people having gained basic work skills either within the educational system or through YTS, would go on to specific skills training, for which employers have the prime responsibility.