Employability Services in the UK: A Catch22Minutes podcast

This week in Catch22Minutes, the public policy podcast series, @Catch22 looks back on the first series which was focussed on youth employment issues and asks ‘What makes good employability support?‘.

During this first series, they’ve covered a host of topics relating to youth employment – from digital skills, green jobs, and the hospitality sectors, to apprenticeships and how employment is key for diversion from youth violence and preventing re-offending.

Catch22Minutes has highlighted some excellent examples of the employability programmes that exist to support young people to get the skills and the confidence to enter today’s job market. In one of the last episodes of 2021, the panellists ask:

• What is it that young people furthest from the job market need to break into the world of work?
• Which programmes are working and why?
• And what are employers doing to diversify their talent pool?

To discuss this and more, the panellists include Elizabeth Taylor, Chief Executive of the Employment Related Services Association (ERSA) and Lisa Jardim, Learning and Engagement Manager Arcus FM, the facilities management company. Arcus FM recently won ERSA’s Employer of the Year Award, following their support of Catch22’s young job seekers.

Catch22Minutes Podcast: In each episode of Catch22Minutes, we delve into some of today’s major social challenges, sharing case studies and inviting frontline experts, industry leaders and young people to speak – all in pursuit of reforming public services.

For the first series, hosted by Catch22’s Director of Communications Melissa Milner, we are focussing on youth employment.

We discuss how society can better prepare young people for today’s job market, and what businesses and government can do to open up future opportunities.

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