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Burnham put in his placement over work experience

PM failed to explain 1,000 figure was ‘pledges’ – and only 92 are confirmed

Anviksha Patel

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Just 92 of the 1,000 extra T Level work placements Andy Burnham claimed to have delivered can be confirmed, an FE Week investigation has revealed.

In a speech at the People’s History Museum in Manchester on 29 June, weeks before he became PM, Burnham said his city region had “rang round our businesses” and, “with the help of hundreds of companies, delivered our goal of a thousand extra work placements”.

“That’s a thousand extra young lives changed every year and it shows what a place can do when it works as one,” he added.

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