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Only one in four apprenticeships goes to under-19s

Saturday, May 23, 2015

| CYP Now

Only about a quarter of apprenticeships are going to under-19s despite the age group accounting for more than half of all applications, it has emerged.

Charity urges five-year plan on Neets

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Thursday, May 21, 2015

| CYP Now

Government must develop a cross-departmental strategy to improve careers advice and school-to-work transitions if it is to prevent tens of thousands of young people becoming Neet over the next five years, a charity has warned.

Work skills training at centre of Labour's education manifesto

News

Friday, April 10, 2015

| CYP Now

The Labour Party has pledged a raft of improvements to careers support and vocational training in schools if it wins the next general election.

MPs criticise low uptake of apprenticeships for under-18s

News

Monday, March 9, 2015

| CYP Now

MPs are calling on schools and the government to do more to address the low uptake of apprenticeships among teenagers.

Brent Council rejects youth service closure plans but backs outsourcing

News

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

| CYP Now

The London Borough of Brent has thrown out plans to axe youth services, close children's centres and impose sweeping cuts to its Connexions services.

Morgan announces careers advice body for schools

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Thursday, December 11, 2014

| CYP Now

The Department for Education is to establish a careers advice company in a bid to improve the quality of guidance services in schools and colleges, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has announced.

Work coaches help jobless youth

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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

| CYP Now

Councils piloting Jobcentre Plus coaches say the scheme extends their work with jobless young people.

More specialist advisers needed to tackle careers guidance 'postcode lottery'

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Thursday, October 16, 2014

| CYP Now

Schools and further education colleges should be able to access specialist careers advisers as part of an expanded National Careers Service, a report by academics at the University of Derby concludes.

Conservatives plan to link youth jobseeker payments to ‘community work'

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Monday, September 29, 2014

| CYP Now

Young people aged 18 to 21 and out of work or training for more than six months will need to do community work to continue receiving jobseeker's allowance (JSA), Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

Ofsted warns over Neet risk of new study programmes

News

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

| CYP Now

Low-quality study programmes are increasing young people's chances of dropping out of school and training post-16, a report has warned.

Daily roundup: GCSE results, fines and Neet figures

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Thursday, August 21, 2014

| CYP Now

Figures show fall in English GCSE grades; number of fines issued to parents in Suffolk for allowing their children to miss school rises by 500 per cent; and Department for Education reveals drop in young people not in education, employment or training, all in the news today.

Participation age reforms at risk of failure, report warns

News

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

| CYP Now

Improvements to careers advice and courses are needed if raising the school participation age to 18 is to succeed in improving young people's lives, a report has warned.

IPPR proposes vocational reforms to reduce Neet level

News

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

| CYP Now

The government is being urged to improve vocational education, apprenticeship opportunities and careers guidance in school in a bid to reduce numbers of young people not in education, employment or training (Neet).

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

Other

Monday, August 4, 2014

| CYP Now

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.

Daily roundup: Ofsted chair, street gangs, and careers advice

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Thursday, July 31, 2014

| CYP Now

Academies boss appointed as new Ofsted chair; funding given for gang work in London; and careers advice fails to influence most young people's job choices, all in the news today.

Call for career support for disadvantaged primary pupils

News

Monday, June 30, 2014

| CYP Now

The next government should develop a welfare package that provides support from primary school into adulthood in a bid to reduce youth unemployment, a report suggests.

Daily roundup: Job support, family courts and child poverty

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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

| CYP Now

Intensive support trialled for jobless 16- and 17-year-olds not receiving benefits; adoption hearing cancelled due to lack of translators; and report reveals impact of recession on child poverty, all in the news today.

Neet rate lowest for nine years, official data shows

News

Friday, May 23, 2014

| CYP Now

The proportion of young people not in education, employment or training (Neet) is at its lowest level since 2005, new figures reveal.

Daily roundup: Leaving care, young offenders and youth clubs

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Thursday, May 8, 2014

| CYP Now

Care leavers discuss social exclusion with ministers; Clegg criticises knife sentence plans; and graffiti artist bequeaths piece of work to Bristol youth club, all in the news today.

Neet young people to lose out under data sharing changes, warns LGA

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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

| CYP Now

Support for young people not in education, employment or training (Neet) will be hampered by a change in the way university admissions data is shared with councils, claims the Local Government Association.

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Only one in four apprenticeships goes to under-19s

Charity urges five-year plan on Neets

Work skills training at centre of Labour's education manifesto

MPs criticise low uptake of apprenticeships for under-18s

Brent Council rejects youth service closure plans but backs outsourcing

Morgan announces careers advice body for schools

Work coaches help jobless youth

More specialist advisers needed to tackle careers guidance 'postcode lottery'

Conservatives plan to link youth jobseeker payments to ‘community work'

Ofsted warns over Neet risk of new study programmes

Daily roundup: GCSE results, fines and Neet figures

Participation age reforms at risk of failure, report warns

IPPR proposes vocational reforms to reduce Neet level

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

Daily roundup: Ofsted chair, street gangs, and careers advice

Call for career support for disadvantaged primary pupils

Daily roundup: Job support, family courts and child poverty

Neet rate lowest for nine years, official data shows

Daily roundup: Leaving care, young offenders and youth clubs

Neet young people to lose out under data sharing changes, warns LGA

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