Youth Employment Toolkit

While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information that the toolkit contains, Youth Futures Foundation makes no warranty (express or implied) regarding that information and does not accept responsibility for any errors, omissions, or misleading statements that the toolkit or the materials it refers to may contain.

The impact of any youth employment intervention depends on the context and quality of implementation, and if you use the Youth Employment Toolkit as the basis for an intervention, you should consider carefully how best to implement it in your particular circumstances.

You should also check that you are using the most up-to-date version of the Toolkit, as it will be updated on an ongoing basis as new information becomes available. As a consequence, Youth Futures Foundation does not accept responsibility for the outcomes or impacts of interventions planned using information from the Youth Employment Toolkit.

The Toolkit is not:

• A comprehensive guide to all youth employment interventions. The first edition of the Toolkit includes evidence on seven different kinds of intervention. We know there are many others and we plan to add further sections over time.
• A comprehensive guide to these interventions. The Toolkit summarises the best available evidence from published evaluations of these interventions, where they have been used in countries that are broadly comparable to the UK. However, if an intervention hasn’t been tried, or if it has been tried and not evaluated, or if its evaluation wasn’t published or didn’t meet the criteria for inclusion, then that limits the information that we can include in the Toolkit. We know that some interventions that are of great interest to people working on youth employment simply don’t have enough evidence for us to include (we’ll do our best to incorporate new evidence as it is published). We’ve tried to focus on the highest quality evidence available in our Toolkit, but this inevitably limits the number of studies that are included.
• A comprehensive guide to the impacts of the interventions included in the Toolkit. The nature of the evidence that was available meant that the analysis for the Youth EmploymentToolkit could explore two kinds of outcome across the interventions, youth employment and education completion.
• A guarantee, endorsement or quality assurance for anyparticular kind of intervention or example of an intervention or programme. The Toolkit sets out the best evidence for how interventions have worked in the past. How they work in the future will depend on a lot of factors including how they are implemented, and how they interact with their new context. And as fresh evidence gets published, that picture of how an intervention has previously worked could change as well.