78 Priority Measure - NEETS PDF 125 KB
Presentation by Collette Bailey
Minutes:
Collette Bailey, Integrated Youth support Services, gave the following presentation on the NEET Priority:-
What is the Issue?
- No real improvement in unemployment rate (NEET) for 16-18 year olds
- Vulnerable groups were 3 times more likely to be NEET than the wider cohort
- The NEET group were from poorer soci-economic backgrounds and had worse GCSE attainment
What is the current position?
- 1 in 8 of all 18-24 year olds were unemployed
- 719 young people academic age 16-18 were NEET 7.2%
- Much worse picture for vulnerable 16-19 year olds NEET
13.% of people with learning difficulties
29% of care leavers
74% of teenage mothers
50% of young offenders in the criminal justice systems
What are we trying to achieve?
- Improving percentage of young people overall and those on FSM achieving good GCSE including Maths and English
- Achieving zero NEET for all 16 year olds by 2013
- All young people in learning until their 18th birthday by 2015
- Improving percentage of young people achieving level 2 and level 3 qualifications at 19
Ongoing impact of being NEET
- Lack of work experience and employability skills meant that young people were not able to compete for available jobs
- Low or no qualifications made work harder to find
- Low income jobs unless upskilled
- Progression into adulthood and becoming parents living in poverty
- Low self-esteem and lack of hope resulted in poor mental health and wider health issues
- Poor/lower outcomes for children in terms of learning and achievement
- Inter-generational unemployment
What helped young people to stay in learning and work?
- Making the right realistic choices at 16 – careers guidance
- Sufficient suitable education and training provision for young people at aged 16 with clear 2 year pathways leading to a relevant qualification for the marketplace
- If you became NEET and had achieved a good range of GCSEs you were more likely to secure learning or work
- Target support towards vulnerable young people to encourage, enable or assist them to participate and remain in education or training
- Strong supportive families or role models with a good work/learning ethic
What do we need to do?
Create an outcome related intervention with a focus on prevention of NEET prevention/recovery was crucial
- Build the key basic numeracy and literacy skills needed to succeed in further education, training or the world of work
- Co-ordinated transitions at 16 for at risk students identified by the Risk of NEET Indicator (RONI)
- Early identification of post-16 students at risk of becoming NEET (drop out) and the co-ordination of support to ensure no break in learning
- Co-ordinated approach to young people who disengaged at the age of 17 after completing 1 year learning programmes
- Whole family approach in situations of high presenting needs – Families for Change/Family Common Assessment Framework
Challenges
- Lack of ownership of the NEET agenda that existed ... view the full minutes text for item 78