Young people and unemployment

The Office for National Statistics has published labour market statistics for February 2014.

Key findings include that:

• The employment rate for those aged from 16 to 64 for October to December 2013 was 72.1 percent, up 0.3 percentage points from July to September 2013;
• The unemployment rate for October to December 2013 was 7.2 percent of the economically active population, down 0.4 percentage points from July to September 2013; and
• For the period between October and December 2013, a total of 917,000 16 to 24 year olds were unemployed, down 48,000 on the previous quarter.

For further information visit www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lms/labour-market-statistics/february-2014/index.html.

As part of National Philanthropy Capital’s (NPC) work on shared measurement with the Inspiring Impact programme, they have developed the Journey to EmploymenT (JET) framework.

The shared measurement system for the youth employability sector aims to help organisations working with young people to understand how their work contributes to employability and think through their evaluation approach.

NCP have been piloting the JET tools with a number of youth organisations and produced the JET Pack to help organisations implement the JET framework. Breaking down the process into eight steps, The JET Pack aims to enable organisations to identify what to measure, decide how and when to measure and use the resulting data to learn and improve.

As well as saving organisations time and money, with the JET tools they aim to support the youth employability sector as a whole to become more effective by promoting a common understanding of what and how to measure.

To download The JET Pack visit www.thinknpc.org/publications/the-jet-pack.