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

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

Why Young People? Almost 1.5million young people aged 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

Young People’s Investment Team

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

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 Aim and focus

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

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

Pathways to positive economic activity 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 Increased quality, relevance and access to local employment and training Enhanced evidence of the nature, circumstances and patterns of youth unemployment

The People Cross-sector partnerships Voluntary and community sector led Private business, SMEs and the VCS as employers R e l e v a n t o p p o r t u n i t i e s

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

Target areas Black Country Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Coventry & Warwickshire Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire Greater Birmingham and Solihull Greater Lincolnshire Greater Manchester HumberLeeds City Region Leicester & Leicestershire Liverpool City Region LondonNew AngliaNorth EasternNorthamptonshire Sheffield City Region South East Stoke on Trent & Staffordshire Tees ValleyThe Marches Worcestershire

DateActivity Late June 2012 National press launch – details available on our website and press activity 27 June – 27 July 2012 Initial local partnership meetings in 21 areas Partnership development funding available August 2012 Partnerships start to develop their prospectus for funding Public contact identified for each partnership November 2012 Each partnerships submits a prospectus January 2013 Our England Committee take decisions on funding Partnerships begin developing detailed project plans By June 2013 and beyond BIG approves project plans – project delivery begins Timescales and how

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

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