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Engaging Youth Enquiry Final Report
Geoff Hayward, Stephanie Wilde and Richard Williams
Published October 2008
This draft report presents the findings of the Engaging Youth Enquiry (EYE) into young people who are classified as 'NEET', and opened the Rathbone/Nuffield Review Open Consultation into the issues involved.
If you would like to submit contributions to the Open Consultation please email them to geoff.hayward@education.ox.ac.uk.
The following are questions that we would like to explore further but please feel free to respond in any other appropriate ways.
How is the 'NEET problem' best characterised: as the product of individual educational failure; as the result of structural economic change leading to youth unemployment, as an interaction between education and the economy; or in some other way? What are the policy implications of these different characterisations?
How can a wide range of institutional stakeholders and actors – employers, education providers, communities, voluntary sector organisations – be incentivised to engage constructively with young people who are classified as 'NEET'?
What would a more effective 'second chance' education and training pathway look like? How could such a pathway be established at local and regional levels?
What is the minimum education and training platform needed for young people to gain access to entry level jobs? How can attainment of such a minimum be assured?
How can increased opportunity be created for teachers, and teaching assistants, to work with young people who are at risk of becoming classified as 'NEET' constructively and in a way that is publicly acknowledged and rewarded?
How could work-based learning pathways be made more flexible so that young people can have funded opportunities outside of apprenticeship?
How can we best capture the experiences and aspirations of young people to avoid stereotyping them?
What sort of labour market protection do young people need when they enter employment? How can this be improved without an over-burdening level of regulation?
How should different levels of the education and training system address the issues surrounding the 'NEET' rate? What are the costs and benefits of inter-agency working to support young people at risk of becoming 'NEET'? What is the role of different actors in helping these young people?
How should resources best be developed and money invested to support the re-engagement of young people?
In what ways and to what extent do solutions need to involve a radical restructuring of the education and training system and to what extent should reform be achieved through more focussed initiatives?
What is the role of employers in providing learning opportunities? How can they best be supported to provide such opportunities?
To what extent can the affordances provided by work be utilised in more formal educational settings to engage a wide variety of learners?
What are the potential opportunities and problematic issues of raising the participation age? How can these issues best be addressed?
What are the effects of a 'qualifications first strategy' on young people classified as 'NEET'? What steps could be taken to redress these effects?
What are the effects of the current features of the youth labour market on young people classified as 'NEET'? How could young people be better supported into sustainable employment?
What kinds of support need to be available to young people who are reluctant to engage with learning within institutional authority structures?
How could young people classified as 'NEET' better be supported to engage with apprenticeship provision, particularly if their prior attainment is below Level 2?
To what extent can detached youth work support young people classified as 'NEET' to re-engage? What nature should this youth work take?
To what extent are the funding structures a barrier to sustainable work to support young people classified as 'NEET'?
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