A cool-headed Lanarkshire teenager’s “bright, curious mind” has so impressed a firm of family funeral directors that they’ve made her one of the country’s youngest trainee undertakers.
Seventeen-year-old Ellie Scott admits she “just didn’t get school,” had become disengaged with learning, and faced an uncertain future in the world of work.
But when her pupil support teacher matched her with South Lanarkshire Council’s youth employability service, Aspire, it set her on an unconventional career path for a young person – and a role within the funeral industry that was created especially for her.
