The 14-19 Education and Skills White Paper was launched in 2005. The Government Offices are working to ensure that young people have access to the services the need and are considered in the implementation of new policy.
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The Youth, Lifelong Learning and Skills Team within the Government Office for Yorkshire and the Humber (GOYH) works on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) to promote government policies for teenagers and to manage DfES funded programmes to ensure they achieve agreed targets. The team's work includes:
- Supporting the implementation of Youth Matters: Next Steps policies
- Supporting the successful transition of services funded through the Connexions Grant to Local Authority responsibility working through Children's Trust or Local Area Agreements (LAA) arrangements
- Programme and performance managing DfES funded services for young people:
Services funded through the Connexions Grant;
Positive Activities for Young People;
Millenium Volunteers;
Youth Opportunity and Youth Capital Funds
- Providing Children's Services Advisers (CSAs) with policy advice and evidence-based analysis for services for young people, to help them support and challenge Local Authorities and their partners through the Every Child Matters (ECM) Change for Children cycle and to help them negotiate LAAs
- A key part of our work involves working closely with Local Authorities and other partners, especially Learning and Skills Councils, to support their plans to raise attainment at age 19, and reducing the numbers of people aged 16-18 Not Engaged in Education, Employment and Training (NEET). Engaging young people in education or training, and therefore reducing the levels of them that are NEET, is a priority for us
- We are using the 14-19 Progress Checks, Priorities Meetings, Annual Performance Assessments and Local Area Agreements, as well as the Joint Area Review processes, to agree local priorities relating to young people with each of our fifteen Local Authorities
