MSC clampdown If they learn close it down!
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Thousands of students demonstrated for higher grants 'B1' Youth Training Schemes, the ones which are based in the community or in a workshop, are being cut back or closed.
Last month, Tom King announced that community projects are to be cut and the Manpower Services Commission claim that local breakdowns of the cuts are still under negotiation.
But 'B1s' are being closed Metro Action Centra. 11 Doncaster will have all their funds stopped from April, even though some 'trainees' only started there in January.
Two schemes in Birmingham are threatened with closure (the two schemes where the YTS Action Group is most involved) and so is Crossover in Newham, East London.
A host of other schemes across the country face the chop, too.
B1 schemes are more expensive than the employer-led mode A schemes. They also tend to provide places for youth who have been rejected from mode A schemes — black youth, ex-offenders or youth with special : problems, perhaps learning difficulties.
Last week most of the 15 trainees from Crossover lobbied the London Area Manpower Board, demanding their scheme be left alone.
Review On this scheme the youth learn silk-screen printing and dress design among other things. On Metro Action Central some trainees : are helping to build a new centre for the local Society for the Deaf.
Next month most schemes come up for review. Schemes run by: the private training agencies, which are grossly undersubscribed, are being allowed to expand, while mode B1 schemes, some of which have long waiting lists, are to be closed.
The Area Manpower Boards have few rights. Accepting or rejecting schemes is one of them. But not for much longer. From next month this power will lie in the hands of the central Manpower Services Commission itself.
Restricting mode B1 ischemes, encouraging the (private training agencies, Spot the restricting even more the Area Manpower Boards and introducing compulsion mark a new phase in YTS.
Now it is becoming just what the government actually wants, a scheme to encourage cowboy firms and to force youth to accept low paid work in substandard conditions. for. ESTO UNITY IS STRENGTH EDUCATE AGITATE ORGANISE By Jim Denham • N NEW DEAN IU:
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