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5 key approaches to supporting young people into employment

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Young people experience multiple transitions between 16 and 25, and disruptions to these can cause long-lasting scarring.

The impact of the pandemic on young people has compounded the challenges they face, with the most disadvantaged at a risk of becoming long-term unemployed.

Among the measures introduced by government to prevent and tackle long-term youth unemployment are the Expanded Youth Offer, particularly Youth Hubs, Kickstart and Restart. The success of these will be highly dependent on the extent to which partnership work, across local authorities, education providers, and voluntary and community organisations, can be achieved. 

However, developing effective youth employment partnerships is easier said than done. Partnership journeys are complex, requiring significant investment of time and resources, and partnerships focused on disadvantaged young people need highly dynamic approaches, and tightly linked nets of support extending beyond employment to tackle the complex issues these young people face. 

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