Technical report: Supporting education to employment transitions in England

Overview

We wanted to better understand the experiences of marginalised young people as they transition from education and training into good work.

To do this, we commissioned the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) to map national, devolved, regional and local-level support systems in England for young people with:

• special educational needs and disabilities
• experience of the care system
• mental ill-health
• and/or experience of the criminal justice system

This document sets out the processes and methods used. It includes details of the approaches used for the different strands of work within the project, including the:

• support mapping
• review by expert advisers (professionals and a Youth Advisory Group)
• local authority case studies
• data mapping

The Appendices include the definitions of the four groups of interest, search results and inclusion criteria for the support mapping, questions included in the professional experts’ review, and data mapping inclusion criteria.

This technical report is intended to be read alongside the research report.