Innovacion

How Sunderland got 91% of its young offenders engaged in education, employment or training and exceeded the national average by 20%

By obtaining comprehensive and timely data, creating a Difficult to Place Panel, developing an innovative New Direction programme and agreeing restorative justice contracts with 60 local firms Sunderland City Council's Youth Offending Service has increased the proportion of young offenders in employment, education or training from 76% in 2004 to 91% in 2008, 20% above the national average.  The New Direction programme is an award winning unpaid work scheme for long term unemployed offenders that develops ‘trade skills’ in young people.

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How Manchester halved the number of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) in four years

Manchester has halved the number of young people not in employment, education or training (NEET) in just four years through detailed geographical research of the incidence and nature of the NEET group, by recruiting a dedicated NEET co-ordinator and developing a multi-agency NEET programme as part of their Children's Board.  By aligning funding from a number of sources and through joint commissioning a range of NEET engagement and aspiration raising activities has been undertaken with young people and specifically the five secondary schools that produce the highest number of NEET pupils.

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