Civil service internships will be given out based on applicants’ parents’ jobs when they were 14
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Civil service internships will be given out based on applicants’ parents’ jobs when they were 14
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Civil service hopefuls will have their fates decided by their parents’ jobs under a shakeup aimed at recruiting more staff from working class backgrounds.
Candidates will be judged based on what jobs their parents did when students were 14
Applications will be limited to those from 'lower-socio economic backgrounds' - determined by what jobs their parents held when…
Minister says programme will help ensure Whitehall has ‘broadest range of talent and truly reflects the country’
Working parents of children between nine months and four years old are now eligible for the full 30 hours
Some families who do not want their child to start primary school almost a year younger than some of their classmates
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