Talent Match Fulfilling Lives: supporting young people into work Sharon Jones

1. Talent MatchFulfilling Lives: supporting young people into work Sharon Jones

2. Insanity? Doing the same thing over and over again.... ....and expecting different results

3. Why Young People? • Almost 1.5million young people aged 16-24 are NEETs • Significant periods of unemployment for young people has been linked to: • Longer term unemployment • Low earnings in later life • Ill Health • ACEVO project the net cost to the Treasury over the next decade as approx £28billion

4. Young People’s Investment Team

5. Talent Match is... • A £100 million investment aimed at helping those Young People who are furthest from the labour market • An investment into our belief that with targeted and appropriate support young people are able to improve their own circumstances and chances • An opportunity to maximise the impact of our funding by gathering learning and evidence to influence and inform future approaches and policy

6. Aim and focus • Up to £100 million across England to • enable young people, who are furthest from the labour market, to secure employment or take up enterprising opportunities • Focusing on 18 – 24 year olds who have been out of work, education or training for over 12 months

7. Principles Supporting local solutions Matching supply and demand Structured opportunities By wiring together the public, private and VCS in partnership Person centred approach Harness passion and potential Asset based Young people and employers are fully engaged Strong and positive communications Promoting positive images of young people

8. What we want to achieve • Outcomes for young people Improved confidence, optimism and support for young people who have been unemployed for 12 months to lead successful, fulfilling and useful lives Young people secure employment, take up training or further education or create their own employment and enterprise

9. What we want to achieve Improved and coordinated local pathways for young people into positive economic activity More employers providing meaningful, supported employment opportunities for young people • Pathways to positive economic activity Increased quality, relevance and access to local employment and training Enhanced evidence of the nature, circumstances and patterns of youth unemployment

10. The People Cross-sector partnerships Voluntary and community sector led Private business, SMEs and the VCS as employers Relevant opportunities

11. What won’t get funded Not doing things differently Poor partnership working Not targeted on our focus group Young people not involved or tokenistic engagement Not locally driven Doesn’t challenge poor image of young people Statutory duties Poor value for money Not targeting need. Spreading funds and resources thinly Not delivering

12. Target areas

13. Timescales and how

14. Evaluation and Learning Shared and comparable – tracking young people’s journey Assessing what worked, for whom and why An economic impact assessment Sustained job outcomes and other positive activities Annual local and national targets Credible, robust and timely

15. Next steps BIG, young people and local partners… …making it happen