A partnership initiative from Youth Careers Collective, West London Alliance, West London Business and West London Careers Hub.

The West London Youth Employment Roadmap aims to significantly reduce youth unemployment and subsequently boost productivity and growth across west London. (Scroll down for the full document and sub-sections)

To achieve this, the Roadmap sets out a clear, actionable, and coordinated path to meaningfully reduce youth unemployment and social exclusion among young people in our boroughs, and to strengthen the conditions that enable them to thrive.

The Roadmap aims to:

• provide an accessible framework and support mechanisms for organisations, across sectors, to positively contribute towards achieving the shared goal of reducing youth unemployment
• establish a common language and a shared understanding of what works
• establish and collating achievable collective short and long-term goals
• encourage and support cross-sector collaboration to reduce duplication and competition

Informed entirely through testimonials from local representatives, cross-sector organisations, and young people, the hope for the Roadmap is for it to become a tool for employers, educators, third sector, and local government, to work together in supporting young people, furthest from the labour market, into employment, empowering stakeholders to proactively and significantly reduce youth unemployment in the long term, and to therefore boost productivity and growth across West London and beyond.

In short, the Roadmap provides all stakeholders and our partners with key actions to take, in the immediate and long-term, in order to support more young people, especially those experiencing barriers to entering work, into positive destinations locally.

The Youth Employment Action Group provides oversight and guidance for the Roadmap and it’s implementation. It is made up of representatives from across the education sector, local Government, employers and the voluntary youth sector.

If you are interested in finding out more or getting involved in the West London Youth Employment Roadmap please get in touch with mattlent@youthcareers.org.uk.