CYP Now - Good Idea: Hackney young people take first steps onto jobs ladder

A partnership between the London council and local employers will see 100 disadvantaged young people offered paid part-time jobs to give them an insight into work and to help them develop skills they can use to find permanent employment in the future.

Name: Hackney 100

Provider: Hackney Council

From September, dozens of businesses in one of the most deprived boroughs of London will employ disadvantaged 16- and 17-year-olds as part of a new employability scheme developed by Hackney Council.

The Hackney 100 initiative will see 100 young people offered paid placements with a range of local employers, including those in the technology, media and hospitality sectors, for a minimum six-month period. The type of jobs on offer are still to be decided by the businesses taking part in the scheme.

Each of the businesses has agreed to pay each young person the London living wage of £8.80 an hour - an independent rate set annually by the Centre for Research and Policy at Loughborough University on behalf of the Living Wage Foundation - in return for four hours of work a week outside of the school day.

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