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Talent Match: the story so far...
Talent Match Leeds city-region conference
Friday 6th November - Northern Ballet, Leeds
Ryan Powell (r.s.powell@shu.ac.uk)
• About the TM Programme
• The Evaluation
• Early Findings and key messages
• TM Leeds city-region: features, successes and challenges
• Looking ahead
Overview
• In brief:– £108m strategic programme– Delivery Phase: 2014-18– Target group: 18-24 year olds furthest from the labour market
(LTU >12mths)
• Key features– co-production and involvement of young people– voluntary programme (versus DWP "stick" approach)– VCS as lead partner– genuinely person-centred, holistic support– focus on 21 LEP areas– influencing change...what works? a new approach to youth
unemployment?
Fulfilling Lives: Talent Match
• Multiple research methods (quants & quals)• Process and Impact i.e what works?• Key feature: a common data framework (CDF)• Thematic approach (e.g. mental health)
• Evaluation outputs:
http://www.shu.ac.uk/research/cresr/ourexpertise/talent-match-evaluation-and-learning-contract
Evaluation - key features
Headline findings
All respondents to the baseline survey
Count Per cent
Talent Match Black Country 232 3
Talent Match Cornwall & Isles of Scilly 212 3
Talent Match Coventry & Warwickshire 98 1
Talent Match Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire 162 2
Talent Match Greater Birmingham & Solihull 143 2
Talent Match Greater Lincolnshire 95 1
Talent Match Greater Manchester 452 7
Talent Match Humber 365 5
Talent Match Leeds City Region 790 11Talent Match Leicester & Leicestershire 357 5
Talent Match Liverpool City Region 384 6
Talent Match London 700 10
Talent Match New Anglia 359 5
Talent Match North East 924 13
Talent Match Northamptonshire 83 1
Talent Match Sheffield City Region 642 9
Talent Match South East 566 8
Talent Match Stoke on Trent & Staffordshire 86 1
Talent Match Tees Valley 132 2
Talent Match The Marches 38 1
Talent Match Worcestershire 90 1
Total 6,910 100
Proportion of young people starting on the Programme over time
Numbers engaged: total and "hidden"
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Beneficiary characteristics
37% Female
63% Male
19% Have children
White: English/Welsh/ Scottish/Northern Irish/British*
• 19% previously "hidden"
• 23% have a disability
• 79% in receipt of benefits - of which: 69% JSA; 16% ESA; 25% HB; 19% CB.
• A quarter on/or recently completed the Work Programme
• 30% have achieved 5 GCSEs A*-C (inc. English & maths)
CDF DATA: Beneficiary characteristics
• 18% have experienced mental ill health
• 15% have experienced homelessness
• 9% have been in local authority care
• 14% convicted of a criminal offence
• 7% have experienced drug dependency
• 4% have experienced alcohol dependency
Indicators of social disadvantage
Key barriers to employment
Not sure which jobs would suit me
Lack of interview skills
Lack of confidence
Lack of job specific skills
Lack of prior work experience
Lack of qualifications
Lack of job opportunities locally
53%
53%
50%
45%
45%
38%
34%
Support received through Talent Match
Other
Counselling
Basic skills (reading/numbers) training
Support with travel
Support in addressing practical barriers
Financial support
Advice on personal development
Information, advice and guidance about careers
One to one support
In-work support
96%
88%
78%
64%
47%
37%
31%
23%
22%Peer mentoring
12%
6%
Actions undertaken since joining Talent Match
2%
1%
9%
20%
29%
26%
34%
38%
52%
75%
2%
3%
11%
29%
36%
40%
44%
47%
63%
77%
6/12/18 month 3 month
Applied for jobs
Attended at least one interview
Taken up additional training
Undertaken some form of work experience
Gained employment
Undertaken some form of volunteering
Completed a training course
Completed a formal education course
Completed an apprenticeship
Set up my own business
BIG "scorecard" data
TM Total (No.)
TM Leeds (No.)
TM Total (%)
TM Leeds (%)
Young people engagementYoung people engaged 8703 939 100.0 100.0Young people who were previously classed as "hidden" 1694 246 19.5 26.3Employment/EnterpriseYoung people securing employment 1016 148 11.7 15.8Young people securing sustained employment (at least 6 mths) 213 34 21.0 23.0Young people securing self employment/enterprise 62 4 6.1 2.7Young people securing sustained self employment/enterprise 2 0 3.2 0.0Work ExperienceYoung people undertaking work placement 338 25 3.9 2.7Training, skills and educationYoung people undertaking basic skills training opportunities 440 67 5.1 7.1Young people into apprenticeships 183 10 2.1 1.1Young people completing apprenticeships 28 4 15.3 40.0Young people into formal education 316 47 3.6 5.0Young people who receive peer mentoring 932 110 10.7 11.7VolunteeringYoung people undertaking volunteering 1551 175 17.8 18.6Young people regularly undertaking volunteering 1244 117 14.3 12.5
• 99% cite TM support as "very" (84%) or "quite" (15%) important in gaining work
• 51% permanent; just 2% self-employed
• 12% on zero hours contracts; 37% receive variable pay (i.e. hours change; overtime etc.)
• Job satisfaction is high: 74%
Of those in employment:
Wellbeing: improvements over time on TM
31%
21%
14%
9%
38%
26%
21%
17%
42%
28%27%
22%
42%
33%31%
27%
Baseline 3 month 6/12/18 month UK (16-24)
Anxiety yesterday
Happiness yesterday
Worthwhile Life satisfaction
• Key features:– consortium approach and experience of
managing large scale projects– building VCS
capacity/infrastructure...legacy?– subsidised employment payment by results– Employers' charter– informed by solid local evidence
Talent Match Leeds city-region
• Success:– key worker co-ordination and support– partnership stability i.e. retaining key staff– retaining participants – adapting to change/need (e.g. model,
bursaries etc.)– 43% of beneficiary target achieved– highest employment rate at 16%
Talent Match Leeds city-region
• Challenges:– TM recruitment: a crowded field– low female participation – maintaining focus on those in most need– ongoing welfare reform (e.g. HB for U21s)– public sector cuts– specialist mental health provision– influencing policy...locally and beyond– peer support expansion– self-employment and enterprise (realistic?)
Talent Match Leeds city-region
• Need to look beyond the monitoring data:– Different models of partnership in operation with differing skills, resources
and structures– Spectrum from ‘youth led/youth work’ through to ‘work first/employer
engagement’– Partnerships with more funding and in larger areas able to do
disproportionately more?
• Barriers to employment:– Transport, experience and qualifications are consistent– Mental health, confidence, complexity of need e.g. housing issues. – Groups with specific barriers: lone parents, BME groups
• Limitations– Co-production only takes you so far…not a panacea– Opportunities for employer engagement vary considerably...but TM Leeds is
well placed– All things to all unemployed young people; or for young people with specific
needs?
Looking ahead...
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