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Special Educational Needs: Unpaid Work

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of closing the Internships Work project on (a) local authorities, (b) employment agencies and (c) young people.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 17 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 23 Apr 2025
Answer: 29 Apr 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

17 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of closing the Internships Work project on (a) local authorities, (b) employment agencies and (c) young people.
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2025
Answer published
In 2022, the department invested £18 million to improve the quality of supported internships and increase the quantity to 4,500 internships per year by March 2025. The Internships Work consortium has led this investment.Owing to the commitment of everyone...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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