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Working R te
Latest News...
Working Rite are expanding
operations throughout Scotland with new projects being
launched in Glasgow, Aberdeen and North Ayrshire and
more to follow throughout 2010.
'Work
Pairing' based on the experience of Working Rite
has just been announced in the UK Govt. Agreement. For
more information click
here
Working
Rte
are pleased to announce the release of their first regular
newsletter. You can download it from here; 
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Who we are:
Working
Rte
CIC is an Edinburgh based social enterprise specialising
in work-based mentoring projects.
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What we do:
We set up projects matching up
youngsters with local employers to give them real work experience
and a rite of passage into the world of work and adulthood.
Projects using the Working Rite
method are continually generating 75% plus success rates in
progressing youngsters into full time employment and apprenticeships.
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We have set up projects in the following
areas:
• Dundee & Angus
• Edinburgh
• Glasgow (two projects)
• Perth
• Scottish Borders
• Sheffield
• Newcastle
• Sunderland
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Rite discussed at Conservative Party Conference 2009
"Inspired
by the successful Working Rite model, we will match
up 100,000 young people with sole traders for a 6
months work experience. Your first boss - one of the
most influential people in so many of our lives. We
are calling on sole traders to seize this opportunity.
We will strip away the bureaucracy and let them teach
the youngsters. It's a win for them; a win for the
teenager, and a win for society"
Lord
Freud, Conservative Party Conference 2009
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Rite has won the Centre for Social Justice Award 2009
[click
for link]
"Having
developed a very effective yet easily replicable model
to tackle the growing number of young people who are
Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET), Working
Rite is an excellent example of the third sector’s
capabilities: providing innovative solutions to problems
that have long defeated the State. I am delighted that
we have been able to reward and recognise their work
through our Awards programme."
Iain Duncan Smith MP, Chairman of the CSJ
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the government is serious about doubling the number
of apprenticeships we are going to need a hell of a
lot of appropriate placements. Not just any placement,
but the kind of appropriate way forward that you are
working on."
David
Blunkett, Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside |
| “We
will support the development of work-based for young
Scots, along the lines of the Working Rite Model”
SNP Election Manifesto 2007.
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