\ 87% of the participants, aged between 14 and 16, end up doing basic vocational training or working in the company where they have done their internships.

\ This week the courses organised by the Conselleria de Asuntos Sociales y Deportes have finished and the diplomas have been handed out to the participants.

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In 2005 the Alter programme was launched with 4 municipalities and 28 places for young people between 14 and 16 years old with difficulties in adapting to the ordinary school system. Now a new school year is coming to an end and the socio-educational intervention programme has been extended to 33 municipalities with 48 schools involved and 300 participating students. More than 227 collaborating companies and 48 educators from the different local corporations are involved in the programme, which aims to prevent school dropouts through work placements in companies aimed at motivating students to start basic vocational training.

87% of the participating students have successfully completed the training and 5% of them have started working in the company where they have done the training and 95% have started basic vocational training.

The Councillor for Social Affairs and Sports, Fina Santiago, and the Director-General for Children, Youth and Families, Marta Carrió, attended the closing ceremony and the presentation of diplomas this week.

As the councillor for Social Affairs and Sports, Fina Santiago, explains, Alter “is an educational proposal adapted because not everyone does well in an ordinary system” and it is a successful proposal as reflected in the data, of second chances and “of joint work of the school, social services and companies so that students can re-engage and have a positive outcome”.