What Works: testing youth employment interventions ·
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The research team conducted in-depth interviews with young people, and organisations already providing self-employment support, to understand what support young people would need to consider a move into self-employment.
Who was consulted?
The interviews focused on:
The consultations showed the value that a self-employment support intervention could deliver in making young people more informed about what self-employment involves and helping them move forward into self-employment if suitable for them.
Young people:
Support organisations:
Some support organisation reported feeling that their purpose was to give young people options about next steps, which could include ways to increase their existing income.
This may be an attractive option for young people to start experiencing some of the benefits of self-employment without all the risks of doing this full-time.
These findings, along with those from the Targeted Rapid Evidence Assessment and Secondary Data Analysis have been used to develop an outline of what a support intervention for young people considering self-employment would look like.
To understand if this works in practice as a self-employment support intervention for young people, the next steps would be to fully develop, implement and test the model.
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Self-employment impact evaluation
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