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A report has highlighted the issues with Raising the Participation Age (RPA), mainly around the lack of advice available to young people and how the RPA will be enforced. When the RPA was first considered financial penalties were deliberated to penalise employers who flouted rules by failing to provide training and to ensure that young people accessed training or education. These steps were placed on hold.
Since RPA came into force last year, it is a legal requirement all young people are required to continue in education or training until the end of the academic year in which they turn 17 (18 from summer 2015).
So young people now have a choice about how they continue in education or training, but without some form of enforcement there is a risk that the increase in participation age will be seen as ‘voluntary’ and will not have the envisaged impact on youth employment. It is likely that enforcement will be revisited if the uptake is as low as the report suggests.
The recent case of R (on the application of A Parent) v Governing Body of XYZ School [2022] EWHC 1146 (Admin) provides some welcome and reassuring guidance to governing boards on the exclusion reconsideration process.
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With 19 HR experts now supporting over 500 schools and trusts across the country, in this edition of 60 seconds we sit down with Emma Hughes, who leads the team, to discuss what this significant milestone means to her.
In order to reduce the risk of potential breaches, schools should follow this Health and Safety Executive guidance.
A ResPublica report highlighted that asbestos continues to be the UK’s number one occupational killer, with nurses and teachers 3 to 5 times more likely to develop mesothelioma than the general UK population. The House of Commons Work & Pensions Select Committee is investigating how the HSE manages the continued presence of asbestos in buildings.
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