london based companies should partner with regional companies to give incentives for trading interns. giving more than three or six month contracts so as to give more sustainable employment and transference of skills to employees and employers. it will also give better incentives for londoner or regional people to experience and understand the english economic landscape. it would also give more security to the interns to focus on building skills and being better quality employees, less stress means better work. this costs the businesses nothing more than a partnership agreement and saves recruitment time.

Everytime an unpaid internship is spotted (excluding charities), Internocracy writes to them reminding them of the rules/laws/best practice surrounding internships, whilst encouraging them to consider providing the National Minimum Wage where the placement is longer than 4 weeks.

My current boss is threatening to ruin my future because I am trying to leave an unpaid internship for a paid one in the same field. The freedom to leave (with 2-weeks notice of course) should be standard practice in internships.

This would help young people to recognise where they'll get a good experience and plenty of opportunities.

...such as a code of conduct for running internships.

Just because an advert for an internship sounds great, the intern may be stuck doing admin or duties that should be the remit of paid employees. Organisations should define the expected balance of work and be upfront about the opportunity.

If you are interning and have been promised expenses but the boss tries to wriggle out of paying them it would be nice to have someone to turn to who can tell the employer the rights an intern has.

It seems that training focusses on under 25s - but many people change career later . It's much harder as a 30+, who doesn'twant to do menial work at the bottom when you've worked for years. We priviledge our youth over the rest of society and makes it harder for older people to get their foot in the door.