Missing connexions : the career dynamics and welfare needs of black and minority ethnic young people at the margins
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Missing connexions : the career dynamics and welfare needs of black and minority ethnic young people at the margins
Policy Press, 2002
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Career dynamics and welfare needs of black and minority ethnic young people at the margins
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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"Published for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation by Policy Press"
Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-53)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The UK Government is introducing a major new service - "Connexions", aimed at providing support for young people during the transition from school to employment, education or training. Although universal in theory, this service will be targeted in particular at those young people most at risk of social exclusion and disaffection. This report provides an account of a major evaluation of how existing services reach - or overlook - groups of the most disaffected young people. It focuses in particular on the needs and life experiences of young people from minority ethnic groups and the processes of exclusion which they experience.
Key features of the report include: accounts of how disaffection begins long before young people leave school, often provoked by traumatic events at home; the additional difficulties, including racism, experienced by young people within the public care system; the experience of young people living on the margins of society after they leave school, and often unknown to official agencies; and messages for those involved in developing "Connexions", including the continuing problem of racism, the key role which played by voluntary sector organisations, and the need for diversity and flexibility of provision. This report provides an agenda of research and policy issues which should be of interest to those involved in understanding and responding to the needs of both white and minority ethnic marginalised young people, including local government, Learning and Skills Councils, careers advisors, youth and community workers, and education and training providers.
Table of Contents
- Young people at the margins - the policy context
- Pre-16 - educational disaffection and troubled early lives
- Post-16 - the experience of NEET
- Multiple disadvantage in the care system
- Making better connections: main findings and their policy implications.
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