ET Isn't Working
The Government's new Employment Training
Scheme was launched with a fanfare of expensive publicity last September. For six months before that a pilot scheme for ET was run in Brighton. Despite being part of the prosperous south east, Brighton has an unemployment rate well above the national average; thus it is an ideal site to test the Government's claims that ET is tackling long-term unemployment. This film, made by the Brighton Unemployed
Centre, investigates the claims of ET through the experiences of the unemployed. They conclude that ET is not providing real training or leading to real jobs: it's simply a source of cheap labour, while helping the Government disguise the true level of unemployment. Film cameraman JOHN KEEPING Film sound CHRIS LOVELOCK Film editor SUE SPIVEY
Executive producer TONY LARYEA Producer GILES OAKLEY
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