"Arfa Daily" wrote in message
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"AC" wrote in message ...
ARW wrote:
They will rise from £2.65 per hour to £2.68 per hour. That's a whole
£1.20 a
week extra for working a 40 hour week.

Would you still want your child to take an apprenticeship?



As long as they are treated as apprentices and not cheap labour, yes.

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AC


Sorry, but that is the case, and always has been. As soon as an apprentice
has learnt enough to do a particular task safely and efficiently, then
they will be used as cheap labour to do that job for evermore - or until
they leave, or qualify and get an apprentice of their own. It's the nature
of the beast, and I don't really see any harm in it. My apprenticeship was
five years, and I was used as cheap labour for a lot of that time, but so
were we all. It was the price you paid for learning a trade that would
hopefully keep you earning for the rest of your life. I don't think it did
us any harm.

Yes. I was 15 when I started my apprenticeship. I was 18 when I was left
on my own.