Canvis a "🏛️ Policy Proposal 2: Youth-Led Fairer Career Support through Cross-Sector Action "
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-<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 Careers advice can be inconsistent, impersonal, or outdated.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>- +<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 Careers advice can be inconsistent, impersonal, or outdated.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>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 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>
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