A call to action

1. Yorkshire and the Humber14-19 Challenge: Yorkshire and the Humber14-19 Challenge: A call to action A call to action A call to action

2. Andy BrownRegional Director of Learning, Planning and Performance, LSC Progression Workshop Progression Workshop Progression Workshop

3. The reality of not being in Education or Training • What are your opportunities if: • you left school without good GCSEs • you are not in training or employment • you started in the sixth form or at college but dropped out • you did a post 16 course but failed it • you are competing for unskilled jobs Who is most likely to be in these categoriesand what is it likely to feel like? Yorkshire and the Humber 14-19 Challenge: A call to action

4. NEETs – the facts • In Yorkshire and the Humber in July 2007: 11,582 NEETs 9,259 not known plus Yorkshire and the Humber 14-19 Challenge: A call to action

5. Progress is being made 16-18 Participation • Entry to Employment +500 (+8.5%) • School Sixth Forms +500 (+1.5%) • Further Education +1,700 (+2.5%) • Work Based Learning -900 (-6.0%) • Total +1,800 (+1.4%) Yorkshire and the Humber 14-19 Challenge: A call to action

6. NEET • July 07 to July 06 one month comparison NEET1.0pp reduction to 9% ‘Not knowns’3.5pp reduction to 6.7% Yorkshire and the Humber 14-19 Challenge: A call to action

7. The scale of the challenge % NEET % Not Known Yorkshire and the Humber 9.0% 6.7% National 7.7% 5.9% Gap 2.3%0.8% Yorkshire and the Humber 14-19 Challenge: A call to action

8. Tackling NEET • Prevention is better than cure • Engagement of young people pre 16 • Provision of high quality vocational progression routes starting at 14 • Flexibility of what is offered • Many NEETs have dropped out of one course • Entry opportunities needed throughout the year • Planned 18% increase in apprenticeship places Yorkshire and the Humber 14-19 Challenge: A call to action

9. Tackling NEET • Specific needs • Learning difficulties • Teenage parents • Care leavers • Offenders and ex offenders • Substance abuse • Ethnic minority groups • Communities and hotspots Clear linkage to wide Every Child Matters Agenda Yorkshire and the Humber 14-19 Challenge: A call to action

10. Tackling NEET • Advice and guidance • Importance of genuine impartiality • Follow up and ensuring action on advice • Curriculum pathways • Increase in availability and quality of level one and level two provision • Continuing to progress • Aiming higher Yorkshire and the Humber 14-19 Challenge: A call to action

11. In conclusion • September guarantee of appropriateoffer for all 16 and 17 year olds • New curriculum opportunities such as Diploma • Are these to be paper exercises which change little? • Or: An opportunity for a multi agency approach across Yorkshire and the Humber for a step change in the coherence and the rigour of the way we tackle young people’s progression needs? Yorkshire and the Humber 14-19 Challenge: A call to action

12. Key issues to be tackled at regional, local and institutional level • Suggested strategies/process to be used / established to disseminate Good Practice • Identified areas of Good Practice (possible contacts) • Suggested strategies and processes to be used / established to add value and improve outcomes • Actions and requirements (including commissioning) that the Challenge needs to develop/put in place to add value • Other suggestions and next steps Yorkshire and the Humber 14-19 Challenge: A call to action