As the What Works Centre for Youth Employment, our vision is an equitable future society where all young people can access good work.
But simply providing information about what works for youth employment is not enough to change what practitioners, employers, funders and commissioners do in practice to improve young people’s lives. They need to understand and apply insights in their decision making and delivery.
That’s why our mission is not only to generate high-quality evidence, but also to work in partnership to put that evidence into action, supporting key actors in the youth employment system to enable young people to thrive.
To help us deliver on our aims, we’ve created a funding and learning programme that affords UK-based delivery organisations the time and resources to understand evidence-based practice and embed this confidently into their activities.
Designed to improve knowledge mobilisation across the sector, Evidence into Action is a three-year commitment focused on developing and delivering vocational training solutions for young people not in education, employment or training (NEET), or who are at risk of becoming NEET, and who identify as being from Black, Mixed Black, Bangladeshi, Pakistani and/or Gypsy Roma Traveler Heritage.
Our Youth Employment Toolkit indicates that both on and off-the-job training may have a positive impact on outcomes for young people with additional barriers to employment.
We now want to put these insights into practice by supporting voluntary organisations to design and deliver on and off-the-job training activities and evaluate their impact.
The first funding round will cover 3 years of learning, development and delivery.
Discover more about the programme, and how you can apply, on our Evidence into Action page and through the supplementary guidance document.
Proposals should be submitted through our online grant portal by close of business on the 9 September 2024.
