Who we work with
Youth Employment Group
Ensuring that there is a quality employment, education or training pathway for all young people, in particular the most marginalised.
The Youth Employment Group (YEG) brings together the UK’s largest coalition of youth employment experts, and the latest evidence and insight to advocate for good quality and inclusive employment for all young people.
Meet the co-chairs
Together, we:
Set the agenda
Set the agenda by raising the profile of labour market issues facing young people.
Provide tools
Provide tools with practical guidance on issues and how to tackle them.
Drive change
Drive change in policy and activity by working with employers, local and national governments, civic society and young people.
Youth inclusion
We are committed to embedding the views and experiences of young people and the challenges they are facing through the Youth Voice Forum, chaired by young people. It meets monthly on a range of topics, providing a space for them to engage in the YEG and share their experiences, challenges, ideas and solutions.
What do the YEG subgroups focus on?
Through a partnership with the Westminster Foundation, the YEG supports expert subgroups that focus on the causes and solutions of issues facing different groups of young people, and the support they need. These subgroups focus on:
- Disability – chaired by BASE
- Youth justice – chaired by Nacro
- Apprenticeships – chaired by Amazing Apprenticeships
- Self-employment – chaired by YEUK and Catch 22
- Employers – chaired by Movement to Work
- Quality of work – chaired by Shropshire Youth Support Turts
- Ethnic disparities – chaired by the Council for Somali Organisations and Youth Futures Foundation
“As Co-Chair of the YEG Ethnic Disparities subgroup, I want to uncover what influences the employment prospects of young people from minoritised ethnic backgrounds. Currently, we are identifying how evidence is informing policy and practice in this area, as well as pinpointing gaps in knowledge. Our aim is to support more young people into high-quality education, training or employment by developing evidence-based recommendations.”
Kahiye Alim, Director, Council of Somali Organisations
Latest activity
November 2024: Get Britain Working
Read more about November 2024: Get Britain WorkingThe Government launches the Get Britain Working White Paper, which includes a new Youth Guarantee. The Youth Employment Group is named twice within the chapter following extensive consultation and we continue to work together to help deliver the Youth Guarantee.
September 2023: The Young Person's Guarantee
Read more about September 2023: The Young Person's GuaranteeThe YEG proposes a transformational offer for our young people: The Young Person’s Guarantee. This paper emerges from a broad series of conversations, discussions, and consultative sessions and is shaped by a range of experts, organisations, and perspectives.
November 2022: Ethnic disparities sub-group launch
Read more about November 2022: Ethnic disparities sub-group launchThe YEG Ethnic Disparities sub-group is launched at the House of Lords. The results of a survey of 2,200 ethnic minority young people are released. Minister Mims Davies announces her new role as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Social Mobility, Youth and Progression following YEG calls for greater cross-government accountability and collaboration to tackle youth unemployment
November 2021: Skills for Every Young Person
Read more about November 2021: Skills for Every Young PersonThe YEG’s recommendations largely adopted in the House of Lords Youth Unemployment Committee’s Skills for Every Young Person report.
July 2021: Levelling Up for Young People
Read more about July 2021: Levelling Up for Young PeopleThe YEG launched a new paper at the APPG for Youth Employment, providing a framework for the Government to deliver on its Opportunity Guarantee.
January and February 2021: Youth employment and Covid-19 continued
Read more about January and February 2021: Youth employment and Covid-19 continuedThe YEG called for an extension to Kickstart, the government’s flagship youth employment COVID-19 programme, publishing a paper on the
April 2020: Launch
Read more about April 2020: LaunchThe Youth Employment Group is launched in response to the youth unemployment crisis caused by the pandemic.
YEG co-chairs discuss recently launched Young Person’s Guarantee
At the recent Youth Employment Group (YEG) meeting, co-chairs and members provided key updates from across the youth employment sector.
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