This is in contrast to jobs such as accountants, vets and even traffic wardens, whose work does not involve children but still require a basic criminal record check
on entry to the profession.
All this does is create more lawyers (assuming they finish the process, which most do having invested considerable time and money in the LPP) and bypass the natural market barrier that regulated
entry to the profession which was articles.
This simple measure would have more impact than any of the suggestions in last week» social mobility White Paper or the likely recommendations of Alan Milburn's review of barriers to working -
class entry to the professions.
Teacher educators who
guarded entry to the profession used the techniques of science to study, measure, and evaluate the teacher candidate as do those who guard entry today.
The legal sector has long struggled to shake off the view that it is traditional and elitist, but plans announced in August to introduce a solicitor apprenticeship could fundamentally
overhaul entry to the profession.
As we await the final conclusions of Lord Neuberger's Entry to the Bar Working Party (expected by the end of this year) about how the Bar should rear its young, I would like to make an argument for fundamentally reforming the Bar vocational course (BVC) as the best way to bring about
fairer entry to the profession.
Law schools are creating more experiential - based learning, but the Law Society still remains the gatekeeper of monitoring professional standards
for entry to the profession.
The Junior Lawyers Division (JLD) of the Law Society has warned that the government's proposed # 350m cuts to legal aid will impact badly
on entry to the profession.
The hidden costs of adding an effective fourth year to law school are profound and reprehensible in the current cost environment
of entry to the profession.»
Articling had become a barrier to
entry to the profession that was hard to justify as a matter of principle or of sound public policy.
Entry to the profession is usually as an arborist or arboricultural assistant with a commercial tree care company, commercial contracting company or local authority.
Postgraduate qualifications are available in outdoor education and recreation management, although a Masters degree is not necessary for
entry to the profession.