Go4it Programme
Opportunities for Vulnerable
Young People NEET
Go4it Programme – 3 year project
January 2012 – December 2014
• 16 – 19 year old NEET Care Leavers & Teen
Parents (male/female) residing in one of the 32
London Boroughs & City of London.
• Eligibility – legal right to be resident in the UK
(must finish programme by 18th birthday if temp right
to remain).
Eligibility continued
• Looked After/Leaving Care – being corporately
parented or have left the care system in previous
24 months.
• Not in EET for more than 8 hours per week at start of
participation including self employment.
• A lone parent, together as a family unit or living
separately but parenting together.
SFA contract estimates for engagement
over 3 years across London
• Up to 532 care leavers
• Up to 798 teen parents male/female
• Teen Parents (female) generally rate between
10 – 20% in NEET and are usually at the higher
end of Unknown average between 15 – 50%.
• Care Leavers generally low in NEET between
0.3 – 5% NEET and at higher end of Unknown
between 5 – 35%.
Delivery Design
• Every participant allocated an Employment & Skills
Adviser supporting participants with IAG (inc. a
person centred action plan), diagnostic needs
assessment.
• Delivery of bespoke interventions to enhance
job/study readiness skills.
• Access to a Go4it Fund/16-19 Bursary and
rewards for participation & EET entry/retention
up to 26 weeks/2 terms.
Delivery Design continued
• The Employment & Skills Advisers work with a team
of Opportunity Brokers to identify and secure
appropriate opportunities through our Specialist
Recruitment Agency and Job Brokerage service to
support EET inc. work shadowing/work experience
placements to aid entry into EET.
• Retention package of support to help sustain
engagement for a minimum of 26 weeks if
employed/Apprenticeships or two terms in
education/training.
Social Media
• Young people access the projects social media
using QR technology – Facebook/Twitter to receive
up to date information on vacancies and on line
professional support.
• Partners/networking receive e-newsletters with
case studies and updates.
Current coverage of a project
• Work in 27 of the 32 Boroughs with City links.
• Main source of referrals have been from Supported
Housing, Family Nurse Partnerships (FNP), Family
Intervention services, Leaving Care and Teen Parent
support services.
• Referrals currently running at 66% target year 1 with
58% EET outcomes.
Main barriers
• Slow response by potential referral partners from
strategic to practitioner level.
• Competition of other programmes including ESF
funded. Partners swamped by programmes and not
identifying programmes with specific focus to target
resources.
What’s working
• Leaving Care services integrating the Go4it offer into
their engagement programme:
- Care Leaver week group work activities
- Half term activity weeks; focused sessions to support
skills development CSCS card mock tests/prep
- Summer transition support with Go4it workshop offer
What’s working continued
• Teen Parent services integrating Go4it offer into
their engagement programmes:
- Children's Centre/Youth provision Teen Parent
groups
- FNP very good at referring & supporting
male/female referrals
• Generic:
- Supported Housing (121 & group delivery)
- YOS referrals
- Sharing NEET/Unknown lists for direct contact
RPA how we can support
• Y11 transition
- PRUs/alternative provision/schools can refer young
people now/summer term for Go4it to sign up and
engage over summer period to aid positive transition
summer/September starts inc retention support.
- Leaving Care/Looked After can refer new 16+/year
11 transition.
RPA continued
• NEET data can be shared (Information Sharing
protocols straight forward to put in place)
- We can track, engage and support year 11 transition
saving Local Authority resources and targeting these
key groups
- Y12 providers to refer into Go4it early leavers to aid
re-engagement into EET with retention support
RPA continued
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Think about how we can be interwoven into current
offer for added value and enhanced offer to these
groups of young people
Assure services/practitioners that we are an
enhanced offer and not trying to replace
services/staff
Go4it runs on the principles of quality case loading
& close partner working
Thank you
Go4it Programme Manager
Nanette.Higgins@prospects.co.uk
Mob: 07584 236486