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The major changes in the vocational training system on the one hand and the dynamics of the labour market triggered by neo-liberal policies on the other have contributed to markedly reshaping the process of access to jobs for young British people over the last ten years. If people leave the school system earlier compared with other European countries, a prolongation of occupational transition via various stages (trainee in further or alternative training, trainee in public schemes, unemployment) for many young people documents the erosion of the traditional model of direct access to employment.