Visit to Trinity Training Services

3.49.00pm GMT Fri 9th Sep 2005

Visit to Trinity Training Services

This morning I attended a breakfast meeting with Trinity Training Services. Trinity Training Services are a training provider based in Wolverhampton South West for young people aged 14-24. They invited me as the Liberal Democrat candidate at the General Election and we had a discussion about issues that concerned them, such as the Education Maintenance Allowance. After the breakfast I had an opportunity to meet some of the trainees.

Trinity were founded in 1986 by three voluntary organisations that had been provided YTS training. They have since gone from strength to strength and moved just outside the City Centre of Wolverhampton. They should be a thriving business but are deeply worried about the future particularly because the introduction of the Education Maintenance Allowance is likely to hit them harder than colleges and the such like.

I will be talking to the Liberal Democrat Education Team at our forthcoming Conference about this and will see what we can suggest, as well as lobby for the Education Maintenance Allowance to take these providers into account.