YOUNG people struggling to find work because they have been taken into care could be offered apprenticeships at Wrexham County Borough Council.
The Executive Board is considering a scheme to improve employment prospects of young people who have reached the age of 16 having spent all or part of their lives in care.
Many have poor exam results as a result of the upheaval in their home lives and struggle to find work or hold down a job. Nationally less than 1% of young people who have been into care go to university.
As a result the strategic director for children and young people Terry Garner has suggested offering work experience places to young people in care and providing two extra apprenticeship places exclusively for youths coming out of care.
While Mr Garner acknowledged the risk of raising the expectations of young people only to let them down as there are just two places he believes the scheme would enable the council to better fulfil its duty as a corporate parent.
The plan was supported by Wrexham Council leader Aled Roberts.
'We would be doing what parents in our position would do,' he said.
Council chief executive Isobel Garner said the scheme had been approved by a council legal team.
'We are not ring-fencing two existing apprenticeships and restricting applications to young people coming out of care. Instead we are creating two new posts for them.'
If it is agreed, the posts will be paid for with an additional £15,000 through its Children First programme.
