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failed The education system, disadvantaged Young People in England, warns The Social mobility of The Commission .

The Commission also says that the Covid-19-pandemic, everything will be unemployment even worse, and reinforces the youth.

In a report highlighted a 36% decrease in people from disadvantaged population groups from the apprenticeships, compared with 23% in the other groups.

The Department For Education said it was "absolutely leveling obliged to opportunity throughout the country".

is published by The Social mobility Commission's report, as the education Select Committee prepares, proof of education at a meeting on Wednesday.

training levy

The Report , apprenticeships and social mobility: Fulfilling potential, says the introduction of a training levy in the Year 2017, led to a "collapse of the entire training begins, which hit hardest on disadvantaged learners".

The training levy takes 0. 5% of the salary bill of the big employers pay an annual bill in excess of £3m, with the intention of using The Money for improving skills and training.

The Report notes that between 2015-16 and 2017-18, The Number of apprenticeship starters from disadvantaged backgrounds fell by More Than a third (36%), in contrast to 23% for the other apprentices.

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The Commission 's report also says that most of the benefits of apprenticeships go to those from wealthy backgrounds.

But he emphasized that the doctrine "is one of The Most effective means of strengthening The Social mobility of workers from poorer backgrounds - if you can, in and through The System ".

lead report author, Alice Battiston London Economics, said: "It is a serious disadvantage gap during the entire training trip, and this has, in the course of time.

"Not only has the proportion of new starters from disadvantaged backgrounds decreased over time, but they have also benefited less than their better-off peers by The Shift to higher-level programs. "

Steven Cooper , joint Deputy Chairman of The Social mobility Commission, said: "The teaching of levy, introduced in 2017, has a disproportionately higher level training courses for learning support from disadvantaged communities, rather than those who come from disadvantaged socio-economic background, benefit more

"It's not longer credible, that the government thereof, to said that teaching automatically improve social mobility, and The System is left to its own devices," He Said .

"Strategic action and direction are needed to the target system on disadvantaged communities and improving The System of value for money. "

Coronavirus effects

according to the Corona-Virus-pandemic, there are concerns that disadvantaged students at further risk of economic decline, with many workers in heavily affected sectors such as hospitality and retail.

"The pandemic is likely to be made to the disadvantage gap even worse. There is an urgent consideration of the impact of the training needs to place levy on social mobility outcomes," added Ms. Battiston.

Labour's Shadow Education Secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey said apprenticeships would be one of The Building blocks of the economic recovery, according to Covid-19.

"If the government is serious about the offer of a" training guarantee " it will heed calls by the further education sector for a post-Covid skills funding package address, to provide the obstacles for the success and employer support, the opportunities and appropriate payment are in need of new apprentices, in order to be successful. "

"As this report shows, many disadvantaged students are significant barriers to success, but with warnings from the FE sector that a lack of new varieties and the large number of training places layoffs were on The Horizon , your future can be more fragile still, and that without urgent action by the government. "

a DfE spokeswoman said: "We Are absolutely committed to leveling of opportunity, across the country, and continue to do everything we can to ensure that nobody is Left Behind as a result of the coronavirus.

"apprenticeships are an excellent way to in a variety of rewarding careers, and they will also continue to have an important role to play in the high quality of the skills that employers and our economy needs to recover supplies

"We look at how we can ensure that more people and companies can take advantage of teaching. in The Future , including the support of employers, in particular small and medium-sized companies, new apprentices this Year "

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Source of news: bbc.com