The next couple of months will see young people across the UK sit their end of school exams. For many the goal of getting through the exams is the main focus but, strange though it may seem to them now, life goes on after the exams. 

Trying to get good work experience can be a challenge for young people. Either they cannot get a placement or sometimes the actual experience provided is decidedly lacklustre. 

Employment figures for the UK reveal that more people in the UK are in work than ever before. Records began in 1971 and between August to October 2015, 73.9% of people aged from 16 to 64 were in work, the highest employment rate since comparable statistics started being recorded.

Prospects Chief Executive, Nick Bell, and Director of Quality and Business Improvement Team, Antony Pearce, have both been nominated for awards from the National Centre for Diversity Grand Awards, the ‘Oscars of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion world’. 

Alysha Bodman, Member of Youth Parliament for Gloucestershire joined almost 300 elected Members of Youth Parliament at a national debate in the House of Commons on Friday 13 November 2015, to decide the UK Youth Parliament’s priority campaigns for 2016.