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-🏛️ Youth-Led Fairer Career Support through Cross-Sector Action- +🏛️ Policy Proposal 2: Youth-Led Fairer Career Support through Cross-Sector Action
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-<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 Careers advice can be inconsistent, impersonal, or outdated.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 Policy Proposal: </strong><br>A new model for careers support and work experience that is youth-led, data-informed, and co-designed with schools, employers, and local government, giving young people a real role in shaping the pathways, partnerships, and systems that affect them.</p><p><strong>Amendments:</strong></p><ul>-<li><p>Establish national framework with regional adaptation and cross-sector partnerships between schools, local employers, unions, charities, and councils, with standardised guidance and government incentives (insurance coverage, tax relief) for businesses</p></li>- +<h2><strong>The Problem</strong></h2><p>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 Careers advice can be inconsistent, impersonal, or outdated.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><h3><strong>The Policy Proposal: </strong></h3><p>A new model for careers support and work experience that is youth-led, data-informed, and co-designed with schools, employers, and local government, giving young people a real role in shaping the pathways, partnerships, and systems that affect them.</p><h3><strong>Amendments:</strong></h3><ul>
- +<li><p>Establish local and regional cross-sector partnerships between schools, employers, unions, charities, and local government, with standardised guidance and government incentives (insurance coverage, tax relief) for businesses</p></li>
- <li><p>Retrain and accredit career advisors to provide one-on-one, culturally sensitive guidance with access to real-time local data on work opportunities and skills in demand</p></li>
-<li><p>Support longer-term, recurring placements starting from Year 9, with options for earlier exposure from Year 6-7, alongside accessible digital infrastructure where youth can match with placements and earn certifications</p></li>- +<li><p>Support longer-term, recurring placements starting from Year 9, with options for earlier exposure from Year 6-7, alongside accessible digital infrastructure that can help match a young person with the placement and earn them certifications</p></li>
- <li><p>Ensure youth-led design and evaluation of all career programmes, with funding spread strategically across education, youth services, and small business support</p></li>
-</ul><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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