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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Jessica Coates

Civil service internships to be restricted to working class

The government will tighten eligibility criteria for Whitehall internships as part of a broader push to make the civil service more representative of the working class.

According to the BBC, the main internship scheme will now be limited to students from “lower socio-economic backgrounds” and based on which occupations their parents held when they were 14.

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