Work-based training for young people: data from the England and Wales Youth Cohort Study

This report, based on the England and Wales Youth Cohort Study (YCS), describes the work-based training received by young people who left school at the age of 16. Findings include: government-supported training (GST) is still an important option for many people; in jobs outside the GST framework, half of full-time workers and three-fifths of part-time workers had been given no training at all; standards of training in other GST did not match standards in Advanced Modern Apprenticeships (AMAs); there was evidence of inequalities in access to high quality training by sex and ethnicity; young people's satisfaction with their training depended on the nature of the training rather than on the trainee's personal characteristics; there are high dropout rates from GST; and early leavers were more likely to have poor General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) results and to have played truant at school than those who stayed in GST. The contents of the report are: Introduction; Young people on work-based routes; Off-the-job and on-the-job training; Changes over one year; Study for qualifications; Conclusions. Also included is a list of recent reports based on the England and Wales Youth Cohort Study. Show less