Youth Programme:

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1 Youth Programme: Match Funding for the Youth Programme will be provided by the Skills Funding Agency, who will procure provision Think of the Youth Programme as a single programme made up of co-dependent strands Developed through Task and Finish Groups of stakeholders

2 Youth Programme Complements mainstream provision In the main, the delivery unit is the subregion: achieves a balance of local relevance, economy of scale and critical mass of beneficiaries

3 Career Clusters Secondary schools, FE and Sixth Form Colleges Focus on schools from disadvantaged areas with high %age of students on FSM/pupil premium; lowest rates of HE progression; highest rates of NEET Senior Leaders, Teachers, and Careers Advisors working in London secondary schools and colleges Businesses (including SMEs) and Higher Education Institutions who pilot activities with Cluster schools and colleges Pupils directly benefiting from Cluster HEI and business activity

4 Preventative NEET This programme will work with young people in learning and who have been indicated as being 'at risk' of becoming NEET by either their learning institution or local authority

5 Gangs Prevention The project will support a cohort of to 16 year olds who are excluded from school and in alternative provision in the London Boroughs with the highest level of need Focus on young people who are on the trajectory of serious offending in gangs Focus on increasing engagement with education and increasing employability, as well as tackling family factors through close work with other support services Programme will support the young person in their whole environment: in Alternative Education provision, in positive structured activities at other times and in future EET activities

6 NEET Outreach Young people aged 16 to 18 who are NEET or unemployed but not claiming Job Seekers Allowance Young people aged 16 to 18 whose participation status is not known Young people aged 18 to 24 who are unemployed

7 Careers Guidance Young people aged 15 to 24 who do not have a statutory right to impartial face-toface careers advice and guidance or who are otherwise unable to access impartial face-to-face careers advice and guidance

8 Youth Talent Young people aged 15 to 17 years who are in formal education and seeking work experience opportunities Young people aged 16 to 24 not in employment, education or training with low or no qualifications Young people aged 18 to 24 leaving education or training ready to enter into employment

9 16-18 Targeted NEET Interventions Young people aged 16 to 24 who are NEET and whose background suggests they require additional support to access and sustain EET

10 16-24 LDD Targeted NEET Young Londoners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities aged 16 to 24 who are NEET, including those with limiting long-term health problems

11 Targeted Interventions Two strands: Mental health difficulties, drug/alcohol abuse, homeless (c 3.8m) Specific characteristics (c 6.8m) Care leavers Teenage parents / parents to be Lone parents Young carers Work Programme leavers (some) Migrants

12 Young BAME People Unemployed (and economically inactive, excluding students) people aged 18 to 24 from particular BAME communities (Black or Black British; mixed ethnicity; Pakistani and Bangladeshi; Arab; Roma, Gypsy or Irish Traveller) New JSA claimants on the programme must have qualifications at or below Level 2

13 Intermediate Labour Markets for Young People Temporary job with additional support for young adults furthest from the labour market, tailored to meet individual client needs ILMs intended to mirror (as closely as possible) processes for recruitment in the open labour market (competitive interviews for every ILM job) Delivery model based on four phases; assessment and preparation; job brokerage and interview; in work retention/training/progression and post ILM