Taking Their Chances
Education, Training and Employment Opportunities for Young People
Published on 5. September 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
56 pages
978-0-907324-95-9 (ISBN)
Description
Published on behalf of more than 30 organizations working with young people, this booklet calls for a series of related changes that would not only significantly improve the prospects of many thousands of young people but would also prove to be a sound investment for the future of the country as a whole. Young school leavers are traditionally regarded as being in an enviable position. With their adult lives just beginning, the world is their oyster, the possibilities endless. This booklet presents a very different reality for young people in the 1990s. Despite a range of new initiatives, the process of gaining and continuing in employment, education or training is very complex, poorly co-ordinated and obstacle-ridden. The text examines the options and opportunities available to young people as they leave school - continuing in education, finding training, attempting to find immediate employment - and considers whether these offer realistic means of entering the labour market. It also examines the support young people are given in choosing an appropriate route to employment. At any one time, sone 117,000 16- and 17-year-olds are not in education, training or employment.
They therefore have no income. This booklet examines in detail the experiences of young people who make claims for income support under the Severe Hardship provision.
They therefore have no income. This booklet examines in detail the experiences of young people who make claims for income support under the Severe Hardship provision.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
6ill.figs.tabs.
Dimensions
Height: 297 mm
Width: 210 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-907324-95-9 (9780907324959)
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Content
Choices and opportunities for school leavers: commitment to jobs, routes to employment; employment: poverty in employment, case study - Heather; education: obstacles to continuing in full-time education, part-time education; case study - John; training: skills levels, training for 16-and 17-year-olds, the youth training guarantee: access to YT placements, acces to quality training, YT leaver's survey; further evidence of the failure of the YT guarantee, employer participation; YT allowance: selective training: young people with additional needs, young people from ethnic minority groups; government initiatives to address training standards for 16-and 17-year-olds: expenditure on training programmes, modern apprenticeships; training for 18-to 24-year-olds: training for work. learning for work, community action, workwise courses and 1-2-1, caseload interviews, accelerated modern apprenticeships, other training initiatives; case study - Dave; unemployment: 16- and 17-year-olds: hidden young people, the cost of restoring benefits, 18- to 24- year olds unemployment qualifications, unemployment and gender, unemployment and ethnicity, unemployment and disability, foyers; welfare benefits: 16- and 17-year-olds: bridging allowance, severe hardship payments, 18- to 24-year-old, jobseekers allowance; advice and support for young people; the future - looking for solutions.