17 year old daughter trying to find work

Becles

How about some voluntary work?

It's not paid (obviously!) but it will get her some skills and experience to put on a CV. eg if she wants to work with children, helping out in a school will give her an advantage.

zodiac

Are you London based? Gumtree.com have lots of jobs that dont require many qualifications (If your not london based, scroll down to the bottom of the page and see if they have a gumtree site for your city/town)

Repeating what alot of people have already said, she should go back to college. If shes 17 on 31st of August (not her day of birth, just if she is 17 and not 18 on the 31st )she still has another 2 years of free education left (until she is 19). College is very different from school and she shouldn't have that much trouble making friends and BNDs or BNCs are great for skill based learning.
Depending on your money income, she could get EMA and if you earn over £30,000 she might still get some money from the 'learner support fund' (or whatever it is called at your local college - see student services).

Savvy_Sue

rchddap1 wrote:

Hey...I know that conversation. Except its with a 16 year old who has just got her GCSE's and 'wants to work with animals'. Doesn't know what, doesn't care what. As long as they're not cleaning out the poo all the time.

At 16, she'll be lucky!

For the OP, I'd contact Connexions, they ought to be particularly supportive of someone who has not been in 'normal' education for the last couple of years. Whether they will or not is a different matter!

rammy007

my daughter turned 16 last week and got her first job two days after her birthday at mcdonalds,they dont seem to care about the qualifications there cos when she went for an interview they had already decided she had got the job she gets about £48 and is going to college and will also get £20 ema and is going to retake some gcses cos she didnt do that well as she really messed about and got in with a bad crowd and i had lots of trouble with her last year and wouldnt listen to us so she has got to learn the hard way,she was really disapointed with her results so perhaps she might learn from the disapointment now