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View from the Chair
There is some deceptively encouraging news regarding youth people and employment, with the first article in this month’s newsletter proclaiming amongst other things that number of NEETs have dropped by a quarter since 2009 and the Government will be introducing a new curriculum ensuring proper preparation for employment.
My concern is that the new jobs that are being created are in the wrong place (too many in London, or to give Boris a break, not enough outside London) and too many jobs in low skill/low pay with limited opportunities for advancement.
Some of these issues are not new, but we need to take a holistic approach to the issues of youth unemployment (and youth under-employment), not just giving headline grabbing sound bites that will do little in the long term to help those young people in deprived areas of the East Midlands.
Simon Worsley, Chair of EMVY, Part of One East Midlands
Figures released by the Department for Education on 25 June reveal that the proportion of 16 to 18-year-olds not in education, employment or training (NEET) is at the lowest level since comparable records began 20 years ago.
The Mental Health Foundation and Paul Hamlyn Foundation has published How to…improve mental wellbeing in youth work practice.
A parliamentary inquiry into the effectiveness of the youth courts has found that they are in urgent need of reform.
Skillshare International, a Leicester based charity, part of a consortium of organisations, is offering the International Citizen Service programme, fully funded by the government and aimed at NEETS aged 18 to 25.
The Federation for Detached Youth Work’s annual conference and AGM, entitled Detached youth work – on the fringes?, will take place from Friday 14 to Sunday 16 November at Trafford Hall, Chester.
The Child Protection in Sport Unit has launched a self-assessment tool, which organisations can use to check that they are doing everything they can to keep children and young people safe in sport.
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