11/01/12…Help for 6th formers struggling to stay in education

WHAT financial help is available to sixth formers who are struggling to stay in education? First of all, it is always worthwhile talking to a trusted teacher to find out how the school or college may be able to help.

Although financial help for school students through the education maintenance allowance (EMA) has now been scrapped, young people who were already getting EMA before January 2011 will continue to get it until the end of the 2011/12 academic year.

Anyone in their first year of post-16 study who was getting maximum EMA is eligible for