Young people now face unprecedented challenges, including financial worries, employment and climate concerns – with implications for a new generation’s mental health, and the health of the UK economy.
In this Foundation & Friends podcast, host and Executive Director, Corporate Affairs & Foundation, City & Guilds, Faiza Khan MBE, is joined by Thora Eberts, Director of Network Delivery, UK Youth, and Maddie Dinwoodie, Director of Engagement Programmes, Engineering UK, for a wide ranging discussion on how government, communities and employers can support young talent and help young people to overcome education, skills and development challenges, including:
- How young people can influence policy change through advocacy efforts
- The return on investment for spending on youth work
- The role of employers in supporting the early-stage workforce
- How young people can help to meet the current skills gap in UK engineering
- How community-based engineering projects can positively impact youth at local level
- How educators can signpost young people to a career in engineering
For further information about the material quoted in this episode visit:
UK Youth research referenced during the podcast
- #Untapped: The Economic Value of Youth Work — https://www.ukyouth.org/untapped/
- And our recent DCMS commissioned research about the longitudinal impacts of youth work, and the short term issues from youth club closers – in short, young people with access to youth work are happy, healthier and wealthier for the rest of their lives — https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/youth-provision-and-life-outcomes-research
#iwill resources
- #iwill website — https://www.iwill.org.uk/
- A fab video featuring young people about why we need a movement —https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14JJVT0YoCLWghIHBQHdK-_BVFD6m6xhz/edit#slide=id.p1
- Information about the Power of Youth Charter and how to sign up — https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qED-5_okedgVIFHqBn6-qdOhJ7eQrI0R
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