National Apprenticeship Week | Revealed: the apprenticeship barriers limiting school leavers from lower socioeconomic backgrounds

More than a third (38%) of school leavers face a lack of apprenticeship opportunities in their local area, according to new research from Co-op. 

This comes as Co-op finds that two in three (68%) school leavers agree that apprenticeships are more important now than in previous years, with almost half (48%) seeing an apprenticeship as the most beneficial way of entering the world of work.