Employment Schemes: Young People

(asked on 16th July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what target she has set for the number of 16 to 17 year olds to (a) enrol on the Youth Contract programme, (b) be re-engaged into a positive outcome following the Youth Contract programme and (c) be retained in that positive outcome for five out of six months over the course of the Youth Contract programme.


Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 21st July 2014

For the Education Funding Agency (EFA)-managed strand of the Youth Contract programme for 16- and 17-year-olds, payments are made on a ‘payment by results’ basis, which has three outcome-related payments.

In announcing the programme, the Government committed £126 million over three years to provide capacity to support up to 55,000 young people who are aged 16 or 17, not in education, employment or training (NEET) and who have no GCSEs at grades A*-C. As a result of efficiency savings made during the procurement for delivery of the programme, in January 2013 the eligibility for the programme was extended to provide capacity for up to an additional 15,500 young people aged 16 or 17 who are NEET and: who have up to one GCSE A*-C or; who are care leavers/young people in care or; who are young offenders released from custody or serving community sentences.

Delivery data for the programme for the period September 2012 to the end of March 2014 was published on 26 June 2014 and published online here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/youth-contract-delivery-data

This shows contractors delivered 18,570 enrolments, 9,949 re-engagements and 3,445 sustained engagements. The contracted profile for the period 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2016 shows: 21,500 participant enrolments; 23,000 participant re-engagements into positive outcomes of education, training or employment with training; and 23,500 participants to sustain in a positive outcome of education, training or employment with training for five out of six months.

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