Cambridge City Council’s new recruits will start work on May 3 under a new apprenticeship scheme designed to give 12 teenagers valuable training and clean up the environment at the same time.
The scheme has been launched in partnership with cutting edge training company, Nordic Pioneer, which will start recruiting the apprentices next week.
After initial training at the end of this month, they will be taken on by the city council cleaning up nature reserves, commons and cemeteries and removing fly tipping, graffiti and fly posting.
The scheme will be partly funded with £10,000 raised from Fixed Penalty Notices issued for environmental crime such as dropping littler, graffiti and fly-tipping.
Aged between 16 and 18, the young people will work with members of the council's Streets and Open Spaces service delivery team and the scheme will lead to an NVQ level 2 in Cleaning and Support Services and six months of work experience.
The scheme ties in with the national drive to expand apprenticeships after the coalition government gave an extra £50,000 over four years to create 250,000 more apprenticeships.
Cambridge City Executive Councillor for Waste and Environmental Services, Mike Pitt said: “We are very excited about this scheme and looking forward to welcoming the young people to our team.
“This is a chance for them to learn skills and a nationally recognised qualification which hopefully will help them to secure permanent work in the future.”
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