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Explore methods to support transitioning NEET individuals, identify key issues, existing support services, and best practices, leading to agreed actions for progression. Address NEET profile, solutions, resources, and research findings for effective management.
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Managing Transition Paula Dunkley WBL Support Manager
Programme • Introductions • Aims and Objectives • Identify specific issues • Identify existing support & services • Identify best practices • Solutions • Next Steps
‘By the age of 21, a young male who has been in this (NEET) group for six months is three times more likely than average to have mental health issues, five time more likely to have a criminal record and six times less likely to have any qualifications’
Aims & Objectives • Discuss methods of supporting the transition of potential NEET • Look at local support or services • Agree actions for supporting progression
Introductions • State; • Name • Summary of your organisation • your role within your organisation
Identify Specific Issues • Split into groups and discuss • 5 key issues for potential NEET learners progressing from school into College, WBL or Employment within Croydon • what support or services are available for managing transition? • Identify good practices for managing transition
Solutions • Improved measurement approaches • Early identification and intervention • Effective links, partnership and multi agency approaches • Effective data sharing • Resources conducive to good practice • Meeting needs through targeted, flexible practices • Good procedures for management and accountability
NEET profile • Higher proportion of males • Registered to take free school meals • Low literacy and numeracy • Some ethnic minority groups • Parents poor or unemployed • Parents low academic achievement • Carers, • Teenage parents, • Homeless, • Have been in or are in care, • Have a disability, • Misuse of drugs or alcohol • Involved in offending.
Resources • Tackling NEETs; Connexions Research Brief No; CNX 01, 2003 • Young People NEET; Evidence from Pilots EMA database; Centre for Research in social Policy, 2006 • Missing Out; HMLE, 2006 • Effective working with disadvantaged young people; LSDA, 2000 • Back on Track; LSDA, 2001 • Bridging the Gap; new opportunities for 16-18 year olds NEET; Social Exclusion Unit,1999 • Transitions; Young Adults with complex needs; Social Exclusion Unit; November, 2005
Next Steps • Agree actions to take forward by individuals or institutions