We are LIVE talking with @stephenctimms and @DamianHinds about youth employment after coronavirus.

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https://app.sli.do/event/y6g334g4 

@FionaAldridge is opening the event introducing our research

"Youth unemployment is around four times higher than the rest of the working age population. Those with no qualifications, low qualifications and young black people have been hit particularly hard."

"Young people tend to be underrepresented in the sectors that will recover quickest from the pandemic, and overrepresented in those that will recover slower."

@FionaAldridge on why young people will continue to bear the brunt of the pandemic as parts of the economy recover

@DamianHinds talks about some of the wider impacts of young people missing out on face to face education including social contact, sports and other groups and enriching activities.

"For this generation more than any other, developing skills will not be one thing that is only done towards the end of education - it will need to go on throughout life."

@DamianHinds on the need to take a longer-term approach to learning throughout life.

@stephenctimms talks about the need for a collaborative approach between government, employers, the third sector and other actors if we are going to tackle youth unemployment after the pandemic

Kickstart must also focus on supporting disabled people to account for the "stubbornly high disability employment gap" as we come out of the pandemic, says @stephenctimms

Forester, a young person supported by @PrincesTrust talks about how engaging in a wide variety of skills training and education has widened the job options available to him and broadened his horizons

Our poll results are in!

Over half of participants predict that youth unemployment will continue to rise after the pandemic.

Read our recommendations for tackling youth unemployment in our report with @PrincesTrust and @HSBC_UK

https://learningandwork.org.uk/resources/research-and-reports/facing-the-future-employment-prospects-for-young-people-after-coronavirus/

So how can we tackle youth unemployment? We need a more joined up approach between government departments to tackle the problem from all angles, says @SamanthaWindett

We need to help young people develop transferrable skills which are essential in the workplace but which might have been harder to develop during the pandemic, says Michaela from @HSBC_UK

Results from our second poll are in!

% believe that the Government has responded well to reduce youth unemployment, but several key areas which need longer-term reform are yet to be addressed.

To make sure the most disadvantaged groups aren't left behind in accessing jobs & training we need:

More collaboration, including with the third sector
The extension of Kickstart

says Ben Marson from @PrincesTrust

Read more in our new research https://learningandwork.org.uk/resources/research-and-reports/facing-the-future-employment-prospects-for-young-people-after-coronavirus/

ICYMI, catch up on the recording here