Scare stories again

Front page of the TES this week brings another scare story.
Becuase the Diploma says that work experience should be in the line of learning "where possible" it is possible that experience may be outside of the Diploma area.
But the reality is that it's unlikely as Connexions, Schools and Colleges will be wanting to get youngsters experience in the right area and this clause is there to cover for problem areas where it is difficult to get the right experience.

The bigger issue is probably that with 10 days minimum instead of the 5 days now, and a need to get the right experience, Connexions will face a large increase in workload which i know (from talking to heads of the service) are not being funded.

Another issue are the Health and Safety requirements of areas such as Construction. If it really is a requirement that every employee that comes into contact with a student (could be everyone) has to have CRB clearance, then no-one in Construction could ever have a student on site due to the transient nature of many contractors. Now that really is a problem in my view.