Two in five (41%) businesses that do not offer work experience to school pupils say it is too time consuming, a survey has found.

A third of senior business leaders surveyed by The Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC) not offering work experience also said they do not have the staff capacity to supervise work experience (33%), or they lack suitable tasks for young people (34%).

Of 750 business leaders surveyed in total, just over half (52%) said they currently offer work experience.

More than half (58%) said the traditional two-week work experience block is too time consuming.

This comes after the Government’s post-16 education and skills white paper promised to deliver at least two weeks of work experience for all secondary school students, with a goal of splitting this into at least on

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