Event Summary
Nearly one million 16- to 24-year-olds are not in education, employment, or training (NEET).
Chaired by Alex Miles, Co-Chair, Northern Skills Network Join Westminster Insight’s NEETs Conference in Manchester to examine the final recommendations of Alan Milburn’s Young People and Work Review and what they will mean for the future of education, skills, health, and employment.
This timely conference brings together policymakers, local authorities, Jobcentre Plus, health and housing providers, colleges, schools, training providers, employers, and the voluntary sector to explore the Government’s new priorities for youth employment and share what’s working.
We will discuss preventative approaches and evidence-backed interventions that stop young people becoming NEET, including the next phase of Youth Hubs delivery. Based in the community, Youth Hubs bring together local mental health and housing support, skills, careers guidance and training, alongside work and apprenticeship opportunities with local employers.
Our expert speakers will provide an update on employer incentives such as the Youth Jobs Grant and the Jobs Guarantee.
The transition from education into work is no longer working as it should. We will examine how schools, colleges and universities can move beyond measuring attainment to focus on meaningful destinations and sustained employment outcomes. You will hear how to rebuild pathways into work through apprenticeships, employer partnerships, work experience, careers advice, and vocational qualifications.
We will explore specific challenges and opportunities for young people in the North and how devolved employment support and greater local flexibility over funding, commissioning and data can help tailor services to regional needs.
Finally, we will cover plans to fix gaps in local NEET tracking and identify young people who need support, by investing in better NEET data sharing, further education attendance monitoring, and new ‘risk of NEET’ (RONI) data tools.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear directly from the policymakers shaping the national response, benchmark your own approach, and leave with practical ideas for turning the Milburn Review into meaningful delivery on the ground.
Key Points
- The national picture: understanding the Government’s priorities for youth employment, through Youth Hubs, the Jobs Guarantee, a Youth Guarantee Gateway, employer-led work experience, vocational reform, and apprenticeships
- Building effective partnerships: aligning local authorities, DWP, the NHS, housing services, and the voluntary sector around shared outcomes
- Mental health and wellbeing: embedding early, accessible mental health support as a foundation for progression into work
- Skills, careers, and apprenticeships: creating clear pathways from education into sustained work
- Engaging employers: building strong relationships with local businesses and incentives for hiring young people
- Reaching those furthest from work: strategies for engaging young mothers, offenders, care-experienced, young people, or facing multiple disadvantages
- Measuring NEETs: better NEETs data sharing and a new ‘risk of NEET indicator’ (RONI) tool
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