Advice and Guidance
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Can the Youth Contract unlock young people's potential?
With youth unemployment rising to record levels, attempts to tackle the issue formed a key plank of the government's autumn statement stimulus package.
Are 18- to 24-year-olds lost in transition?
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Young people can struggle to have their needs met in a system that treats them as adults at 18. But should services be reconfigured? CYP Now puts the question to senior figures
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Latest Advice & Guidance News
- One in three schools has no plan to deliver careers advice
- Organisations offered £2,200 to support teenagers into work
- Young people praise councils' efforts to tackle unemployment
- Savings 'gap' leaves young people exposed
- Liverpool council takes reins on Youth Contract delivery
- YMCA hostel closure to leave 250 young people without housing
- Scotland unveils plan to tackle youth unemployment
- Teachers slam Barclays schools deal
Advice & Guidance Comment
Miliband addresses the 'crisis we cannot afford'
It is 50 years since research started to explore young people's experiences around the transition from school to work.
Youth employability is reliant on a jobs market
The youth unemployment figures - over one million and rising - were not unexpected, but are intensely worrying. The national figure is bad enough, but the regional variation means that in some areas there is a real danger of endemic long-term unemplo...
Jobs famine deepens the generational rift
Just as youth unemployment hits a record high, fanning fears that Britain's young people could become a "lost generation", the government has scrapped the default retirement age. So more older people are now competing for fewer jobs with the rest of ...
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- Improving Futures - Project Manager Wolverhampton Voluntary Sector Council £27,052 - £29,236 pa, Wolverhampton
- Community Sibling Support Worker Acorns Circa £20k pro rata + allowences, Walsall
- Admin Officer Action for Children £16,830 - £19,620 pa, Wiltshire
- Sessional Contact Assessor DVIP £15-30 per hour, London
- Baby & Toddler Co-ordinator Pre School Learning Alliance £18,143 per annum plus £2,570 London Weighting., Fulham Central
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- Seven in 10 families on financial brink
- One in three schools has no plan to deliver careers advice
- Support for trafficked children to go under the spotlight
- Organisations offered £2,200 to support teenagers into work
- Paediatricians call on government to scrap health bill
- Violence against teachers in Wales soars
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- Organisations offered £2,200 to support teenagers into work
- Families of disabled children lack access to support and information
- One in three schools has no plan to deliver careers advice
- Childminders integral to boost free childcare for two-year-olds
- Childcare ratings website will be free from malicious comments, pledges director
- YJB to seek views on long-term plan for youth secure estate
