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View from the EMVY Steering Group
Welcome to this month’s round-up of news and views. We hope you’ll take time to browse, peruse, share and apply your findings!
For me, the stats on youth employment make for interesting reading. On face value there are certainly encouraging signs and yet we know that so much more needs to be done in supporting young people with this vital transition.
I read an anonymous quote recently which stated that, “Telling a young person to ‘just get a job’ is the equivalent of telling the Sahara to ‘just rain’!”
Young people need not only employability skills, but also the right chemistry of life skills & social skills which will ensure a successful and sustainable transition into employment.
We shouldn’t become distracted by the need to move young people into or onto ‘positive destinations’, at the expense of being a supportive ‘travelling companion’ on their journey and helping them to unpack the life lessons en-route. Young people need more than information, they need fellow-travellers, role-models and mentors who will nurture and enrich their lives to help ‘set them up to succeed’.
I’ll finish my little rant there and conclude by thanking those of you who took the time to compete our recent survey. We’ve been busy as a network collating your feedback, taking on board your ideas and opinions and we’re confident that EMVY’s best days are ahead of us!
Ian Tannahill, Head of Youth Work Development at Valley CIDS Blend Youth Project and member of the EMVY Steering Group
The Office for National Statistics has published the latest labour market statistics for the three months up until January 2014.
To mark Self-harm Awareness Day, which took place on Saturday 1 March, ChildLine, Selfharm.co.uk, YouthNet and Young Minds conducted a survey of almost 4,000 young people aged 25 and under.
The NSPCC has published research on the experiences of over a thousand 11 to 16 year olds using social networking sites and the strategies they use to deal with things that upset them online.
Barnardos has published Someone to Care, a report based on face-to-face research with 62 care leavers regarding their emotional experiences of leaving care and some of the ways the charity is supporting care leavers.
DEFRA, the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, have funded project a project to investigate the attitudes of 12 to 17 year olds and their behaviour to animals.
As the East Midlands Bridge organisation, The Mighty Creatives has been working with Trinity College London to develop Arts Award within our region.
The Rainbow Parents Carers Forum is hosting an event on Tuesday 1 April from 9.30am to 4.30pm at Nottingham Voluntary Action Centre, 7 Mansfield Road, Nottingham NG1 3FB.
Board Academy is a six month programme of active and experiential learning, which supports young trustees to gain the knowledge, skills and confidence necessary to govern and develop arts and cultural organisations.
The Children and Families Act 2014 has received royal assent. The legislation includes an entitlement for children in care to remain with their foster families until they turn 21 and clarification of young carers' and parent carers' rights to support from councils.
Children and Young People Now has an online funding finder listing over 100 funding sources and grants that support work with children, young people and families.
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