Tracking system cuts youth unemployment
Nancy Rowntree
Monday, March 10, 2008
Tracking teenagers once they leave school has contributed to a major cut in the numbers missing out on education and employment in Greater Merseyside.
Figures from Connexions show that the numbers of 16- to 18-year-olds not in employment, education or training is less than 10 per cent, compared to 17.1 per cent when Connexions was established in 2001.
Dave Howard, operations director at Connexions, said the success was due to improvements in GCSE results coupled with a better tracking system.
"We know more and we know it earlier, and working with partner organisations is having a sustained effect on numbers completing courses of learning and obtaining qualifications," he said.
Meanwhile government figures divulged by children's minister Beverley Hughes in response to a Parliamentary question revealed that nationally 10.3 per cent of 16- to 18-year-olds are not in any education, employment or training.
Dave Howard, operations director at Connexions, said the success was due to improvements in GCSE results coupled with a better tracking system.
"We know more and we know it earlier, and working with partner organisations is having a sustained effect on numbers completing courses of learning and obtaining qualifications," he said.
Meanwhile government figures divulged by children's minister Beverley Hughes in response to a Parliamentary question revealed that nationally 10.3 per cent of 16- to 18-year-olds are not in any education, employment or training.
