Supporting disadvantaged young people into meaningful work

What works when it comes to getting young people from disadvantaged backgrounds into employment? The Youth Futures Foundation commissioned The Institute for Employment Studies (IES) to undertake a rapid evidence assessment to identify what existing evidence was published about supporting disadvantaged young people to achieve employment outcomes, to inform the Youth Futures Foundation’s strategy and generate useful findings for the sector working with young people.

This report aims to identify the main evidence that already exists. It was a ‘rapid evidence assessment’ and included evidence that:

• was about interventions targeting young people aged between 16 and 24, particularly those facing barriers,
• measured the employment outcomes of participants,
• was able to make a causal estimate of the impact on outcomes, i.e. it could account for what would have happened without the intervention.

The particular focus of the search was interventions targeting young people aged between 16 and 24. 

Further information:

Download the report here 

Institute for Employment Studies (IES)

https://www.employment-studies.co.uk

IES is an independent, apolitical, international centre of research and consultancy in employment policy and human resource issues.