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A new website which helps parents swap work experience placements for their children has been criticised for potentially excluding less privileged families.

MyInternSwap.com facilitates direct family-to-family exchanges of internships for those aged 16 and above.

Parents are currently offering placements at HSBC, Ted Baker, an embassy and the Royal Navy through the site.

The strategy was expanding opportunity 鈥渇rom a tiny elite to a slightly bigger elite鈥� said Buzzfeed journalist Jim Waterson.

But Nick Simmons MyInternSwap director and creator, said the site鈥檚 target market was much broader.

鈥淲e want to value all types of work experience,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e have seamstresses, a boat builder, a shopkeeper.鈥�