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Advice to aspire

    Other
  • Tuesday, September 17, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Twelve months after schools took responsibility from local authorities for securing careers guidance for young people, Charlotte Goddard investigates the availability and quality of provision that is out there.

Neet figures show year-on-year rise

    News
  • Thursday, May 24, 2012
  • | CYP Now
A total of 954,000 young people were not in work, education, or training in England in the first three months of this year, government figures show.

Young people's advice services take a 180m hit

    Other
  • Monday, August 8, 2011
  • | CYP Now
Local authorities have budgeted to spend almost 180m less on information, advice and guidance services for teenagers this year compared with last year, despite the fact that almost one in five young people are unemployed, a CYP Now investigation has found.

Charity urges five-year plan on Neets

    News
  • 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.

Youth employability is reliant on a jobs market

    Opinion
  • Monday, November 28, 2011
  • | CYP Now
The youth unemployment figures - over one million and rising - were not unexpected, but are intensely worrying. The national figure is bad enough, but the regional variation means that in some areas there is a real danger of endemic long-term unemployment.

Youth employment relies on opportunities, not just skills

    Other
  • Monday, March 31, 2014
  • | CYP Now
Twenty-five years ago, the Confederation of British Industry published a report calling on business to forge better links with secondary education, particularly through helping pupils to understand the world of work. This was, it argued, as much a matter of self-interest as anything else: a "demographic time-bomb" was about to explode as the population of young people leaving school decreased by a third and so only those businesses with good links with schools would retain any chance of selecting the pick of the crop.

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