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Youth apprenticeships: Key policy developments

Friday, March 1, 2024

| CYP Now

In 2017, the government introduced an apprenticeship levy – a charge to an employer of 0.5 per cent of their annual pay bill if it is more than £3m – which is used to fund the training of apprentices.

Disadvantaged young people struggling 'to get lives back on track’ post-pandemic

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Wednesday, November 24, 2021

| CYP Now

Half of young people from low-income backgrounds say they don’t know how they’ll get their life “back on track”, following the Covid-19 pandemic.

Budget 2021: Training providers praise jobs boost for under-25s

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Wednesday, March 3, 2021

| CYP Now

Post-16 education leaders have praised investment in traineeships and apprenticeships for young people as part of the Chancellor’s Budget.

Former minister calls for incentives for schools to promote apprenticeships

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Tuesday, October 3, 2017

| CYP Now

Schools should be incentivised to promote apprenticeships as a positive career option for young people, a former education minister has said.

Volunteer school mentor numbers top 1,300

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Monday, March 6, 2017

| CYP Now

More than 1,300 volunteer mentors are now working in schools across England as part of efforts to boost careers education, it has emerged.

Sports charity gets £1.2m to help young people into work

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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

| CYP Now

A charity that uses sport to help unemployed young people find work, education and training opportunities has been handed £1.2m to help expand its reach this year.

High demand for Jobcentre Plus advisers in schools, study finds

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Friday, December 9, 2016

| CYP Now

Jobcentre Plus advisers in schools are in high demand ahead of a national roll-out in three months time, according to a study.

Youth mentoring programmes to share £3.5m to support underachievers

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Monday, November 28, 2016

| CYP Now

Youth mentoring programmes in England are to share more than £3.5m in a bid to support thousands of young people who are at risk of disengaging from education.

Lib Dems urge post-Brexit protection for EU youth programme

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Monday, September 19, 2016

| CYP Now

The participation of young people from the UK in the European Union's (EU) Erasmus training and study programme must continue after Brexit, the Liberal Democrats have said.

Charities urge more help in tackling pressures facing girls

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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

| CYP Now

A "perfect storm" of life pressures is harming girls' mental wellbeing, and government and schools need to do more to help reduce them, two children's charities have said. ??

Youth charity launches engineering jobs initiative

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Thursday, June 16, 2016

| CYP Now

An initiative designed to encourage more young people to consider a career in engineering has been launched by a national youth and a maritime charity.

*MoD urged to raise armed forces enlistment age from 16??

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Monday, June 6, 2016

| CYP Now

The Ministry of Defence has been told to stop the British armed forces recruiting young people under the age of 18.

Government urged to drop church youth work inspection plans

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Monday, April 25, 2016

| CYP Now

Christian organisations have called on the government to scrap plans that would see Ofsted inspect out-of-school education settings, including church youth groups.??

Job and education worries are biggest concerns for young people

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Friday, March 4, 2016

| CYP Now

Young people fear being "cut adrift" from society due to difficulty accessing housing, jobs and education, research by YMCA England has found.

How high street skills get young people on track

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Monday, October 12, 2015

| CYP Now

Project gets hardest-to-reach young people back into education.

My Life: Damian Czerwiak, 18, Bedfordshire

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Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

About a year ago, I got into a lot of trouble with the police and came close to receiving an antisocial behaviour order for my behaviour in the community.

Funding cuts lead councils to seek new ways of delivering youth work

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Monday, September 28, 2015

| CYP Now

A new round of government funding through the Delivering Differently for Young People programme will aim to help more local authorities develop effective models of providing youth services at a reduced cost

Barnardo's: 'Prioritise disadvantaged young people for training'

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Monday, June 15, 2015

| CYP Now

Barnardo's is calling on the government to prioritise disadvantaged young people for training and job programmes.

Campaign urges employers to target jobless young people

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Monday, April 20, 2015

| CYP Now

Some of the UK's biggest companies are being called upon to do more to offer unemployed young people job opportunities.

Youth charities receive social impact bond investment

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Friday, March 20, 2015

| CYP Now

A charity that aims to improve the lives of teenagers by recruiting them as mentors for vulnerable toddlers is among four programmes to win social impact bond (SIB) funding through the Youth Engagement Fund.

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