MEMORANDUR
Re: Your Memo about Springboard
South/ CCR Lambeth.
11th December, 1984.
To: Dr. Martin Barber
From: David Hudson.
I discussed this issue with Stephen Slater of Springboard South earlier this year. The difficulty with the request for specific examples of Vietnamese who have been excluded from YTS is that there is no flexibility. All Vietnamese
who are too old for YTS are excluded for age reasons is the problem.
: That
In February, 1984, following our meeting with MSC and DES, Lord Ennals wrote to the Secretary of State for Employment (correspondence attached). 'special cases' was being considered.
At that time eligibility for category, apart from disabled people (for whom there is Included in this flexibility), were young mothers, ex-offenders and others in care, and young people from ethnic minorities who, because of ceneral social disadvantace or because they stayed on at school. are unable or un but who are ready az 18.
ling to enter YDS at 16 or This had a negative response.
It would be a positive step if this could be considered again; if possible the Race Relations aspects of the issue should be invok ed to the full.
TOPS/Preparatory Course.
Some
The CCR/Lambeth report is not quite right on TOPS training as Vietnamese 17 and 18 year olds are eligible for ESL/ preparatory courses, but receive smaller trahee allowances than 19+ trainees. This is such a problem at Poole that, on the whole, we recommend that under 19s do not apply. do, however. The major problem about which I have had much correspondence with MSC is that there is a ration of training weeks on a prep. course which is the same for native speakers as for ESL speakers. Consequently a Vietnamese trainee who has already attended a language-based prep course of over 26 weeks cannot progress to a skills/language-based either at Pcole/Bournemouth or in his home area even though that might be the ideal. He also might have to wait (meanwhile his language regresses) until he has been unemployed long enough to join a CP scheme, most of which have in any case only marginal training elements.
course
-SKIM
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There is still a pitifully small number of specific courses which include language support, and those that are offered are too short. With evidence of growing indigestion with straight ESL courses the skills/language-linked courses are Beally the only hope for the majority of Vietnamese. Only
a few will be capable of elf-employment; which some see as
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