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The big debate: How to tackle youth employment challenges

6 mins read Education
Our panel assess the key drivers of youth employment problems and what areas of policy and practice need to be improved if all young people are to have the best transition from education to work and training.
Young people say they lack an understanding of what employers are looking for
Young people say they lack an understanding of what employers are looking for. Picture: Industrieblick/AdobeStock - INDUSTRIEBLICK/ADOBE STOCK

Alison is a British economist, academic, and life peer. She served as part-time adviser on skills and workforce to the UK Prime Minister, from 2020 to 2023 and was a panel member for the 2019 review of post-18 education. In 2011, she completed the Wolf Report which led to reforms in vocational education and is the author of a policy paper on reforms to apprenticeship published in January by the Social Market Foundation.

Seyi has been chair of the board at the youth employment what works centre the Youth Futures Foundation since September 2022 and in 2016 was awarded an OBE for services to youth skills, employment, and homelessness. He has been chief executive of youth homelessness charity Centrepoint for 15 years and is also a commissioner at the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, on the Family Commission and the national inquiry into lifelong learning.

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