Rishi Sunak and protesters in Cannock .
Rishi Sunak was visiting Cannock College to meet and talk to students. There were a number of protesters also there.
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00:22 Very nice to see you, hello. This is Alan. How are you Alan? Nice to see you.
00:26 This is Ed, one of my apprentices. Brilliant, what's your apprenticeship here? Level 3 engineering.
00:30 Okay, level 3 engineering, fantastic. So we're going to show you how to use the drill machine.
00:35 Right, so all we've been doing is drop drilling holes. What year are you in by the way?
00:39 Year one. Oh okay, fantastic. Yeah, yeah, so we've made a career change from it.
00:43 What were you doing before? I was working in the English teaching department. Really?
00:48 Yeah, so we've just been drilling holes. We're trying to make a bit of a slot.
00:55 So all we do is we use the lever to move it downwards and use the program along here.
01:01 Bring it back out again, same again, so you're going to write down the set then.
01:05 So it's just X and then you pop your increment in. So we're moving over to 62.
01:10 So minus 52, which is one, that way.
01:15 Increment set, that's it, a bit like a number line.
01:19 Yeah, that's it, the bead going. Yeah, holding the bead.
01:25 Yeah, doing it to the government.
01:29 Oh, okay.
01:33 If you want to, there's no pressure.
01:37 Right.
01:40 Start off by going in like that.
01:43 Yeah.
01:46 And there's no pressure here.
01:50 About there.
01:53 Closer.
01:56 You wouldn't want a bedroom, it's alright. That's alright, I can just press it down.
02:00 Yeah.
02:03 Right.
02:06 Right.
02:09 Gosh, hi everyone, how are you?
02:11 Hi, how are you?
02:12 Good, why, why am I your coach in here?
02:14 Amanda, where are you?
02:15 How many of you are going to come and scootch somewhere?
02:17 I'm going to scootch with my MP.
02:19 Right, okay.
02:20 I'll come and go there.
02:21 I think you'll know Amanda, she's your local MP.
02:24 And then, have you got some questions for us?
02:26 So, who's going first?
02:28 I'll go first.
02:29 I'll be second.
02:31 I was going to ask, in terms of the university and how, what the cost of anyone having a university is, how hard it is to maybe do any of it, do you know if you're going to make an increase in the fee?
02:46 So what we are doing, so there are now maintenance grants available, and the loan that you get if you go to university, you don't have to worry about paying it back until you earn enough money, and then it happens a little bit over a long period of time.
02:57 But the other thing we're doing actually, which we've just been talking to some of your colleagues about, is making sure there's great apprenticeships for everyone.
03:03 So now almost any job you can think of that you might want to do, there will almost certainly be an apprenticeship that you can do for it, which means you don't even have to go to university, you can just start working and earning at the same time, as we were just chatting to a bunch of your colleagues in other parts of the college.
03:18 And what we're finding is that so many more young people are thinking, gosh that's the best way to get by, if I can work and learn at the same time, earn some cash, don't have to worry about student debt, and now because of all the changes that we've put in place over the last few years, as I said, you can do it in almost any job you can think of, there will be an apprenticeship for now, and that's been a big change in how we do this.
03:41 So what do you want to study, or what are you studying?
03:43 Social work.
03:44 Social work, right, I'm almost certain there will be an apprenticeship for that. Actually we just, in the NHS, we've just announced a big plan to train more and more people in the NHS through apprenticeships, so that's a new thing that we're doing, and actually there's lots more roles in the NHS to enable through apprenticeships.
04:00 Interesting, because the department just did a survey, and what they found is that the rates that the government is now paying, because we've increased them, are actually higher than they were in the private sector.
04:09 They are. I run a deficit of about £2 for every child. The local authority takes about 75% of all my funding, so every child that I have on site, I run an added deficit on a small business, so I need to know how you're going to help small businesses and earn the extra.
04:24 So I don't know about the individual details of the local authority, so what we're doing is we've put, as you know, about £5 billion extra into the system to roll out more free childcare for people across the country.
04:35 So if you're a working family and you've got kids now, starting at nine months old is what we want to roll out the 30 hours of free childcare to, which is going to make an enormous difference, and it kicked in, as you know, in April.
04:46 At the same time, we massively increased the rates that providers like you are being paid.
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