ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on a group of 150 Youth Training Scheme (YTS) trainees and fifteen of their trainers/tutors as they progressed through the Scheme, using a combination of questionnaires, participant observation, group and individual interviews. The YTS tutor, whilst crucial to the quality of training provided, is in a very precarious occupational position. The chapter examines the two perspectives as expressed within different organizational contexts: the Danby Centre and Marton Annexe. It also examines one specific area where the trainers have been forced to create the appropriate space within the formal structure of off-the-job in order to accommodate trainee difficulties that they encounter. The chapter examines the Needs of Production perspectives and their orientations, the interview data shows that they considered their main duty as being able to equip the young person with what they perceived to be the necessary social etiquette needed for the labour market.