{"id":6288,"date":"2026-07-20T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=6288"},"modified":"2026-07-17T18:06:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:06:47","slug":"work-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=6288","title":{"rendered":"Work Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6288\" class=\"elementor elementor-6288\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0792b83 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0792b83\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-67de456 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"67de456\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"648\" data-end=\"849\">Over the last few weeks, Sir John Whittingdale MP has welcomed several groups of young people from his constituency area to Westminster for work experience, giving them the opportunity to experience life in Parliament firsthand.<\/p><p data-start=\"851\" data-end=\"1035\">During their placements, the students worked in Sir John&#8217;s Westminster office, gaining an insight into the day-to-day work of a Member of Parliament and seeing how Parliament operates.<\/p><p data-start=\"1037\" data-end=\"1253\">Reflecting on the visits, Sir John said it had been a pleasure to discuss the young people&#8217;s interests and ambitions while helping them better understand the work carried out on behalf of constituents in Westminster.<\/p><p data-start=\"1255\" data-end=\"1475\">Providing work experience opportunities remains an important part of Sir John&#8217;s work with young people in the Maldon constituency. He is keen to help students gain first-hand experience of Parliament, learn more about public service and explore the opportunities available to them as they consider their future careers.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir John Whittingdale welcomes young people Maldon into his Westminster office for work experience, giving them an insight into Parliament and discussing their future aspirations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-westminster-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6288"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6294,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions\/6294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}