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As we get ready for the Labour Party Conference on Sunday, we wanted to share some highlights from our time spent at the Conservative Party Conference earlier this week. ➡️ FVG member, Lauren, and our CEO Barry Fletcher took part in the UCAS panel alongside @halfon4harlowMP.

Today is our Connected Futures conference, showcasing the evidence, learning, and insights from the first year of our flagship place-based programme. The event will be an opportunity to learn more about place-based and youth-led approaches to tackling youth unemployment.

Delighted to launch this new resource, great work by the team to create something that is easy to use and informative

Important new report on the key risk factors for young people becoming NEET undertaken by NatCen for Youth Futures. Will help inform our future programmes and provide detailed national and local data for policymakers and commissioners.

ICYMI: In a blog originally published by Campaign for Learning, Becci Newton looks at the rise in non-participation of 16 to 18 year olds in education and training, the main political policies to improve this, and her own recommendations. Read more: bit.ly/3GgDqOj

🚀 Alongside mandy_ilovemiley & Youth Futures Foundation, we're co-funding a youth transitions research project 🤝 Our mission: reduce educational inequalities, improve outcomes, build research communities, prioritise key areas & enhance knowledge sharing through administrative data 📊

The data for young people is really worrying. This is number not in full-time education or employment: blue 'economic inactivity' and yellow unemployment. The blue is basically highest it has ever been. Yes, ever. 3/4 million young people outside labour force and education.

This is a really important piece Why are so many young people not looking for work? - The Times and The Sunday Times apple.news/A1ngm9wdIQYamN…

Youth Futures Foundation has conducted the largest survey in the UK of young people from ethnic minority backgrounds – the results reveal that 48% of young people have experienced prejudice or discrimination when entering the workplace: youthfuturesfoundation.org/discrimination…

Our latest Toolkit Unwrapped is out! 🔍 Take a look at our resources to learn more about on-the-job training and how your organisation or company could take the first steps to enhance your youth employment offering. youthfuturesfoundation.org/news/toolkit-u…

Interesting new report on youth participation in research

Delighted to launch this new report with CIPD highlighting the importance of Apprenticeships for young people and the changes needed to make them accessible for all

Concerning figures today showing a significant rise in the number of young people not earning or learning. Now more young people NEET than vacancies (900k NEET Vs 898k vacancies). A key issue for the labour market and unlocking talent of young people Tony Wilson Laura-Jane Rawlings MBE DL

🚨 1 in 8 young people aged 16-24 are not in work or education – the highest it’s been in eight years 📈 This is not an unfamiliar challenge, but to tackle it we need new, local solutions 💫 That’s why we set up Connected Futures 🔗 Find out more 👇 tinyurl.com/3skfzrab

Our CEO, Barry Fletcher, and Paul O'Neill, Deputy CEO at Right to Succeed have been on BBC Breakfast this morning, discussing the ongoing rise of young people not earning or learning, and our report that launched today. The Youth Employment 2024 Outlook report reveals that 1 in 8

Pleased to see the commitment to rebalancing Apprenticeships towards young people and aiming to end inactivity through the Youth Guarantee. The best participation rates in OECD could add £69Bn to GDP #LabourConference Bridget Phillipson Youth Futures Foundation Laura-Jane Rawlings MBE DL Stephen Evans

Kickstart impact report published! assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66fab285… ➡️ £3.15 overall return to participants, state and employers for every £1 spent at 5 years ➡️ for every 100 participants, an extra 11 of those are in unsubsidised employment at two years directly as a result of the scheme

📹 As we launch our pioneering Building Futures programme with Football Beyond Borders, our CEO Barry Fletcher explains why we need robust evidence on how to make mentoring as effective as possible to help young people reach their full potential💡

✍️In our latest blog - and a week on from the launch of the Government’s #EmploymentRightsBill - our Director of Impact and Evidence, Chris Goulden, examines what it might mean for the job prospects of marginalised young people. Check it out ➡️ youthfuturesfoundation.org/news/employmen…