Work experience for yr 10, how and should I?

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(Short version) Is there any point in me trying to arrange something with cold-contacts or is it pointless because companies expect kids themselves to make contact submit their CVs, phone up, etc.? I'm trying to gauge whether I should bother.

(Long version) Start with understanding that DS is a complete & utter lazy toe rag. He will show up & do good work if I organise everything, but he will do almost nothing to arrange.

There was a thread on MN saying that work placements are huge hassle to companies and they don't get any benefit from them.

I am foreign and all this is mystery to me.

Letter from school says DS can do work experience for 2 school days end of July if we arrange it. DH will ask around but we are pesimistic about finding anything from simple networking.

Thx.

I have a thread running somewhere on here about the nightmare of WE. Reminds me, must go back and update - although the update is still - no WE for DS in Yr 12! While I appreciate that the teens should theoretically be making their own calls, when are they supposed to do this? Pre-GCSE, the only free time is generally 40 mins at lunch or late afternoon. Even in Yr 12, DS's availability for making or receiving phone calls is very patchy. If I was relying on him ,making, say, 6 phone calls in a row to check out WE possibilities, that could take several days. Plus, if he does get a phone call in response, it always sounds like WW3 is about to break out in the background when he speaks to me. Not the most professional start to WE. So I say, help out with initial calls, googling etc. If you get as far as finding a company who will actually entertain the idea of WE, try to get an email address and let them take over then.

My DS's work experience was organised by the school themselves. I thought that's what usually happens in most schools. It seems somewhat unhelpful that in OP's case, the school is delegating all of that responsibility to her. The school seem to have simply said "we'll give DS/DD 2 days absence but you'll have to arrange everything yourself."

I remember doing WE in the late 80's at an insurance brokers in London. remember being taken for bucks fizz at lunchtime and spending the afternoon sitting in lloyds of London feeling pretty pissed