New government law for 16 year olds

[melrob62]

What does everyone think of the new laws introduced which means 16 year olds finishing school this year will have to stay in some sort of education until they are 18?

Exactly, starball. Exactly. If DD doesn't get on this College course, I'm screwed. Because DD is refusing to do ANYTHING other than the Cateing she has had her heart set on since she was 7yo, and her SN's prevent her from fully understanding the consequences that will have on me and her siblings...

And given I had DD at 16, what will happen to those under 18's that fall pregnant during that time?

Access to help with Childcare costs while attending College is dependant on claiming IS / JSA / ESA...

Old enough to legally have sex, old enough to legally MARRY, yet not old enough to leave school or claim unemployment benefits?!

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Just need to point out this appears to be in England only.
I was flumoxed, as DS2 (16) has started his GCSEs but i knew nothing about this 'law', turns out reason being we're in Wales. (He's applied to college, but there's no guarantee of a place of course)

Either the age should be 18 for everything, or it should be 16.

Here in England, we need to decide once and for all whether a young person is classed as an adult (albeit a Young Adult) at 16 or 18...

They need to sort fe and apprenticeship s out first, ds1 is 19 on sunday. After gcses he did level 2 in electrical instillation at collage for a year while looking for qn apprentiship.

He then applied to do his levwl 3 and was accepted, the week he was due to start the collage got in touch and told us the govenment had changed the course and there was no funding for his age group (17) they wanted over £2000 for him to take the course.

It took him another 8 months, applying for all sorts of jobs until he finally managed to get an apprenticeship.

It was a right fuck up and did nothing for his confidance, it was a totally miserable 8 months for all of us.

Rounds here there are now private companies which previously signed up NEETs who will get the 16-18 year olds that the schools and colleges don't want.

They allegedly offer training, but warehousing teens seems a better description

They seem to be making a whole lot of money from it though

Does this mean, schools with a sixth form can't kick out pupils without the right GCSE grades?

the currrent year 11 just have to stay till year 12
next year the the first year that have to stay till year 13
BUT
its not school
and there are lots and lots of options to make it work

personally I think its good that 16 year olds will not be left to fend for themselves

I have a DD in year 12 - this is the year that they had to stay in 'education' until 17. DD2 is in year 11 - she has to stay in 'education' until 18.
There is no responsibilty for the school to provide 'education' to everyone until this age. They have their own admissions criteria for sixth form.

Talkin - that's not true. LAST year's Y11 had to stay to 17, THIS year's Y11 have to stay to 18. DD is in Y11.