Goals: To stop young people not in employment, education or training dropping out of training programmes
Funding: 2,000 per five-day course, paid for by Connexions Buckinghamshire
Phil Pascal, a personal adviser at Connexions Buckinghamshire, and his colleagues, wanted to solve a familiar problem. "Too many young people were dropping out of training programmes," he says.
In many cases the desire was there, but the reality proved too hard.
"A lot of training providers run 12-week programmes," says Pascal. "For people to go from signing on and doing nothing to a 12-week course was too much. Their self-esteem was really low. They felt extremely bad about themselves, then all of a sudden they were expected to be committed and focused towards something."
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