Education Employment and Training

We help young people overcome the barriers they face in
accessing and sustaining education, employment, and training (EET).

We support young people to develop goals and a clear plan and with financial support through bursaries. Through our support, young people can develop core employability skills including confidence, well-being, timekeeping, teamwork, communication, self-belief, and motivation. 

We help young people work out which options are best for them. There are educational opportunities, training courses, jobs, work experience, apprenticeships, and volunteering opportunities for young people with all levels of experience. 

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Projects
Highlights 2023-24
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2024-2025 Highlights

• Receiving over 400 referrals for the Reboot West Impact Trial – our flagship project supporting care leavers into Education, Employment, and Training (EET) – with 265 young people offered Reboot spaces. We to continue to deliver high-quality support to help young people achieve lasting work and learning outcomes. The project continues to exceed outcome targets for jobs and education.

• 26 students achieving functional skills qualifications in English and Maths, through the Youth Education Service (YES). We also continue to prioritise the growth and sustainability of YES, which included securing new funding.

• Our Education, Employment, and Training Breakfast meetings remaining a valuable space to connect coaches with employers and education providers. This included our partners, hays Recruitment, who delivered workshops to help young people move into work.

• Our other EET Coaches supported a further 55 young people into Education, Employment, or Training in addition to Reboot’s work.

• Developing an employer training session focused on understanding and supporting young people in the workplace. It has been exceptionally well received with employers adapting elements into their own staff training programmes.

What’s in the Future?

• We will continue to deliver high-quality support for young people through the Reboot Trial to help them achieve meaningful and sustained work and learning outcomes, while carefully planning for the next phase of Reboot, starting in August 2026, when the Impact Trial will end.

• We will continue to work closely with Youth Futures Foundation and the Behavioural Insights Team on all aspects of the Impact Trial, including data collection, qualitative evaluation, and the Implementation Process Evaluation. · We will grow the reach of our Youth Education Service, expanding our offer to more young people and contributing to local and regional education and employment priorities.

In 2024-2025

78%
of young people have moved towards their EET goals.
74%
of young people have sustained EET.
57%
of young people have entered Employment, Education, and Training across the organisation.

Projects

Reboot West

Employment, Training and Education (EET) support for care experienced young people aged 16-25 across our 4 local authorities. (Bristol, BANES, South Gloucestershire, and North Somerset.) Our Reboot coaches deliver a blend of long-term, strengths-based coaching EET work with a therapeutic approach called DNA-V, a youth version of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Reboot West first launched in 2018 and is currently being evaluated as part of a large-scale impact trial, the largest of its kind to date nationally. At the current time the Reboot project isn’t taking new referrals, and the priority focus is engagement in the trial and related evaluation activities.

Education, Employment and Training (EET) coaches

With partial funding from Every Youth, our team of Education, Employment and Training (EET) coaches help young people registered with 1625 get into full and part time work, apprenticeships, traineeships and further and higher education. Our EET coaches help young people explore different career options and provide practical support with creating CVs, completing application forms and preparing for interviews. They also help young people manage the transition into EET.

Youth Education Service (YES)

YES is a registered Alternative Learning Provision offering tailored and friendly English and Maths functional skills tuition in small groups to 16-25-year-olds facing barriers to learning.

Our supportive teachers help young people build up skills and confidence.

With help from our in-house support and progression coach, students decide on their own learning goals, be it sitting exams and gaining qualifications, or building life skills and confidence to help with their next steps.

For more information please visit the YES website: https://youtheducationservice.org.uk/

Read stories from some of our young people

WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE SAID

“I feel like I am able to get on with stuff better now even though sometimes I might not feel up to it and I don’t think I’d be working in this job if it wasn’t for Ibrahim’s help.”
“I’m able to go out independently a lot more and have friendships that I hang out with outside the sessions.”
“I’m still a bit iffy with work but have applied for a few things, and feel a bit more confident in it. Before I never would have messaged people to hang out or approach potential new [employers]”

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