This is the third of six reports published to inform the ‘Youth Commission’: the Commission on Education and Employment Opportunities for Young People. The Youth Commission considered the current education and employment prospects for young people, and the likely impact of changes in policy and the labour market. Read our final report, published in December 2020.
The Youth Commission proposed new ideas for ensuring all young people have access to opportunity. It was kindly supported by Association of Colleges, Capital City Colleges Group, London South Bank University, NOCN and Prospects. Its commissioners were: Kate Green MP (until June 2020), Maggie Galliers CBE, Amy King and Jo Maher.
This report looks at the likely future changes in demographics and the labour market, which will set the context for meeting these future challenges. Learning, skills and employment services will need to help young people to adapt to these changes.
The Youth Commission aims to find ways to improve education and employment opportunities for England’s 16-24-year olds. Its first report identified five key challenges:
- Supporting job quality, career progression, and economic security
- Better supporting 700,000 young people not in education, employment or training
- Increasing the number of young people qualified to at least Level 3
- Improving attainment in literacy and numeracy and other basic skills
- Creating a diversity of higher level learning routes through life
- Supporting job quality, career progression, and economic security.
