Impact pilot: Volunteer it Yourself

• Voluntary participation – relaxed and non-committal approach particularly successful for those with caring responsibilities or poor health.
• Option to achieve an accreditation
• Welcoming, supportive environment
• Informal conversations with mentors gave a sense of waht tradesmen and industry would be like

EET outcomes were relatively uncommon and difficult to draw conclusions from due to limitations such as low sample sizes.

However, it was successful in achieving some of the
intended softer outcomes for the programme, with the majority (64%) of participants achieving an accreditation.

• Create more consistency and coverage in welcome calls and in progression support
• Increase lead-in time to and lenght of project work to enable greater opportunity for skills development and relationship building
• Invest in building local networks of employers and delivery partners, to support increased and consistent delivery of employment and employability activities while a young person is on site.

The programme is not suitable for a randomised control trial (RCT) or quasiexperimental design (QED) at this stage due to:

• difficulty in identifying a comparator and a randomisation point
• the required sample sizes and associated cost
• limitations on tracking outcomes longer term