Változások itt "🏛️ Youth-Led Fairer Career Support through Cross-Sector Action "
Cím (English)
-🏛️ Government Interventions for Fairer Career Support- +🏛️ Youth-Led Fairer Career Support through Cross-Sector Action
Szöveg (English)
-<p><strong>What is the issue?</strong><br>Young people face a career support system that’s inconsistent, outdated, and fails to prepare them for the realities of the labour market. Career advisors are under-resourced, many placements are shallow or tokenistic, and young people lack the networks, confidence, and tools to navigate options. Employers willing to help are held back by regulation, costs, and a lack of structured coordination. The result: a landscape where opportunity is unfairly distributed and far too dependent on chance.</p><p><strong>What is being proposed?</strong></p><ol>-<li><p><strong>Incentivise better-quality work experience</strong><br>Offer <strong>public support to employers</strong>, including tax incentives, recognition schemes, or microgrants, in exchange for hosting <strong>meaningful, rights-based, and skills-building placements</strong> — especially for students facing structural disadvantage.</p></li>- +<p><strong>The Problem</strong><br>Young people often face a confusing, unfair, and demotivating path when transitioning from education to employment. Careers advice can be inconsistent, impersonal, or outdated. Work experience placements are short, poorly supported, and rarely meaningful. And yet, young people’s voices are almost entirely missing from the systems meant to guide them.</p><p><strong>The Vision</strong><br>We propose a new model for careers support and work experience:<br><strong>Youth-led</strong>, <strong>data-informed</strong>, and <strong>co-designed</strong> with schools, employers, and local government.</p><p>This means giving young people <strong>a real role</strong> in shaping the pathways, partnerships, and systems that affect them — and ensuring those systems are accountable, inclusive, and adaptive.</p><p><strong>Key Actions</strong></p><ol>
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-<p><strong>Update the national career support framework</strong></p>- +<p><strong>Youth Participation & Data Gathering</strong></p>
- <ul>
-<li><p>Provide <strong>modernised training</strong> for advisors (incorporating AI/CV tools, inclusive counselling, and real labour trends)</p></li>-<li><p>Ensure <strong>longer and more frequent one-on-one sessions</strong> for personalised guidance</p></li>-<li><p>Build a <strong>national framework</strong> with <strong>flexibility for regional adaptation</strong> to reflect local employment ecosystems</p></li>- +<li><p>Involve young people in <strong>designing and evaluating</strong> career programmes and work placements</p></li>
- +<li><p>Support youth-led initiatives to <strong>collect, analyse, and share data</strong> on what works</p></li>
- +<li><p>Recognise youth as experts in their own experiences and essential contributors to career system reform</p></li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-<li><p><strong>Simplify access through insurance reform</strong><br>Governments should <strong>relax, simplify, or subsidise insurance processes</strong> that currently block small and medium employers from hosting students safely. National-level schemes could de-risk youth placements.</p></li>-<li><p><strong>Enable meaningful partnerships and engagement</strong><br>Promote <strong>regional hubs or alliances</strong> of employers, schools, and youth groups to co-design placements and career education that respond to real needs. Include <strong>youth voices</strong> in the process.</p></li>- <li>
-<p><strong>Harness data and digital platforms</strong><br>Develop or strengthen platforms where:</p>- +<p><strong>Cross-Sector Partnerships for Quality Work Experience</strong></p>
- <ul>
-<li><p>Young people can <strong>search for placements</strong>, get <strong>certificates</strong>, and <strong>track progress</strong></p></li>-<li><p>Employers can <strong>standardise offers</strong></p></li>-<li><p>Public actors can <strong>coordinate and monitor reach and quality</strong></p></li>- +<li><p>Establish partnerships between <strong>schools, local employers, unions, charities, and councils</strong></p></li>
- +<li><p>Incentivise businesses to provide placements by offering <strong>insurance coverage, recognition schemes, or tax relief</strong></p></li>
- +<li><p>Support <strong>longer-term, recurring placements</strong> starting from Year 9, with options for earlier exposure from Year 6–7</p></li>
- </ul>
- </li>
-</ol><h3>Clarifications & Amendments (from the forum):</h3><ul>- +<li>
- +<p><strong>Modernise and Standardise Career Guidance</strong></p>
- +<ul>
- +<li><p>Create a <strong>national framework</strong> for careers support with clear expectations and room for local adaptation</p></li>
- +<li><p>Retrain and accredit <strong>career advisors</strong> so they can provide one-on-one support and culturally sensitive guidance</p></li>
- +<li><p>Ensure advisors have access to <strong>real-time, local data</strong> on work opportunities and skills in demand</p></li>
- +</ul>
- +</li>
- +<li>
- +<p><strong>Build a Shared Digital Infrastructure</strong></p>
- +<ul>
- +<li><p>Develop participatory platforms where youth can <strong>match with placements</strong>, earn certifications, and reflect on their experience</p></li>
- +<li><p>Ensure accessibility across devices, languages, and needs</p></li>
- +<li><p>Let employers share offers and get guidance on <strong>inclusive and meaningful placements</strong></p></li>
- +</ul>
- +</li>
- +</ol><p><strong>Why this matters</strong><br>When youth are treated as passive recipients of career advice, the result is frustration and exclusion.<br>This proposal reframes them as <strong>designers, evaluators, and partners</strong>, using their insights to shape a more just, connected, and inspiring career support system.</p><p>If we want every young person to have a fair shot at a fulfilling future, we need to listen, equip, and involve them — <strong>from the start.</strong></p><h3>Clarifications & Amendments (from the forum):</h3><ul>
- <li><p>✅ <strong>Transferable skills</strong> and <strong>workplace literacy</strong> (e.g., jargon, norms, expectations) must be a core goal of placements. That’s how young people can benefit even if they change sectors later.</p></li>
- <li><p><strong>Can local governments afford this?</strong> Not alone — funding should be national but <strong>strategically decentralised</strong>, ensuring <strong>core budgets reach local actors</strong> to implement effectively.</p></li>
- <li><p><strong>Nationally-set framework, regionally adapted</strong>: A dual-level structure is key. National bodies should define standards, but <strong>local networks</strong> must adapt them to realities on the ground.</p></li>
- <li><p><strong>Standardisation</strong> through <strong>clear guidance</strong>: Create a common language and set of criteria for placements (rights, outcomes, mentorship, etc.), backed by <strong>employer toolkits</strong>.</p></li>
- <li><p>🧑🏽🤝🧑🏻 <strong>Who brings people together?</strong> A publicly funded <strong>coordinating entity or regional hub</strong> should be tasked with convening employers, educators, and youth — co-design is essential.</p></li>
- <li><p>💻 <strong>Digital platforms</strong> should be <strong>engaging, certifying, and accessible</strong> — like a LinkedIn for youth experience. They can reduce barriers and allow cross-sector collaboration.</p></li>
- <li><p><strong>Equitable distribution of funds</strong>: Spread resources <strong>across education, youth services, and small business support</strong>, ensuring long-term use and <strong>inter-institutional collaboration</strong>.</p></li>
- </ul><p><strong>Expected outcomes:</strong></p><ul>
- <li><p>Improved equity in access to job-related learning</p></li>
- <li><p>Higher quality of placements and advice</p></li>
- <li><p>Empowered young people with better tools and knowledge</p></li>
- <li><p>Reduced employer barriers and stronger community links</p></li>
- <li><p>A more just and future-oriented pathway to employment</p></li>
- </ul>
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