§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Wales what percentage of those leaving YTS schemes in each training division area in Wales (a) entered employment, (b) entered further education, and (c) were subsequently unemployed; and what are the corresponding figures for each year since the scheme's inception.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsInformation is not available in the precise form requested. Since April 1985, 100 per cent. surveys of the destination of YTS leavers have been undertaken three months after youngsters leave the scheme. Surveys prior to that date were of a 15 per cent. sample only.
A comparison between the latest figures available and those for the same period a year earlier are shown in the following table:
A total of £70,000 has been made available through the TRIST arrangements for a collaborative project under which six local education authorities are commissioning Welsh-medium teacher training materials in the new technologies. A further £10,000 has been approved for the dissemination of this material.
Apart from this, much of the funding made directly available to local education authorities for TRIST is being used to promote Welsh-medium teacher training, especially in Gwynedd. whose allocation is £150,000 for the five-term duration of the TRIST scheme ending in March 1987. Further funds are now being made available for the general dissemination of the TRIST experience to ensure its continuity within the new Welsh Office in-service teacher training arrangements. Wherever possible this material is being translated into Welsh.