Youth in Crisis! What you need to know. Barry Whitehouse UWBS

1. Youth in Crisis!What you need to know. Barry Whitehouse UWBS Data from the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion courtesy of Tony Wilson and McKinsey - Education to Employment Designing a System that Works

2. The Challenge - Tony Wilson CESI

3. Since recession, young have fared worse

9. So what does this mean? • Young people have been hit hard by the recession • Long-term youth unemployment at crisis levels, with the risk of permanent ‘scarring’ • Increases in worklessness driven by 18-24s • Collapse in employment among 16-17s • Participation in education has risen but may be stuck • Welcome increases in attainment… • But worst off areas do worse – on all indicators • Youth unemployment was a problem before the recession – it is bigger now! • We and our young people are situated in one of the worst areas

11. Growth in apprenticeships modest for 16-18s, stronger for 19-24’s but dwarfed by growth of 25+ • .

12. Which means: the longer you are out of work the bigger the problem • Quality work experience is critical • Improving confidence, self-esteem, motivation • The right support for finding jobs and applying for them • Getting skills that are relevant to the labour market • But also building self-reliance and enterpriseskills

13. As Tony Wilson says The CESI data

14. And from McKinsey? • Worldwide (the report analysed 9 countries), young people are three times more likely than their parents to be out of work • Yet only 43% of employers surveyed agreed they could find enough skilled entry level workers • The OECD say gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ is at a thirty year high • In order to address youth unemployment, two fundamentals need to be in place: skill development and job creation • But there appears to be little hard data on the issue of what works in moving young people from school to employment – Which skills? What practices? Which programmes?

15. What the McKinsey report tells us • Less than half of youth and employers believe new graduates are adequately prepared for entry level positions • 72% of education providers believe new graduates are ready for work • Why are major stakeholders not seeing the same thing? Because they are not engaged with each other, 33% of employers never engage with education providers, and less than half say it proved effective • Successful programmes? Employers and Education providers step into one another’s worlds. Employers help design curricula and offer employees as faculty. Both work with students early and intensely, education-to-employment continuum

16. We need better structures and incentives • Transformative solutions involve multiple providers and employers working within a particular industry/function • Splitting costs among stakeholders, reducing investment and increasing participation • We need to develop skill solutions, gather data and identify and disseminate positive examples • The challenges: overcome the resource constraints, provide youth with sufficient hands-on learning opportunities, combine customisation and scale by offering a standard core curriculum with employer specific top-ups.