Employability engagement and support provision and the labour market transitions of young people

苏格兰政府推出了各种就业能力举措，旨在促进年轻人从学校到就业的过渡。这些措施与第三部门组织提供的就业能力支助同时存在。尽管最近在新型冠状病毒大流行之前在降低青年失业率方面取得了进展，但在持续转型方面仍然存在挑战，一些地区的青年失业率仍然很高，其中一些进展可能已被大流行的经济影响所抵消。目前尚不清楚苏格兰的多层次、多部门就业能力提供是否提供了补充性支持，还是表现为不必要和/或无效的重复。也不清楚年轻人如何浏览选项和服务，或者这些功能如何在他们准备工作时做出决定。需要更好地了解非正式/正式（可就业性）服务的多样性和相互作用，了解作为服务基础的可就业性概念，以及青年人自己如何体验各种服务。通过对克拉克曼南郡年轻人参与就业能力服务的纵向定性案例研究，该项目将揭示这些问题。此外，这项研究将提供各种非正式/正式就业能力的规定在该地区的理解，以及这些不同的举措如何相互作用。这项研究是与克拉克曼南郡第三部门接口合作。本研究试图回答的问题有三个方面。首先，青年人可获得哪些类型的就业支持？第二，青年人关于劳动力市场转型的决定如何受到他们的观点和就业能力支助经验的影响？第三，青年人对就业能力支助的看法和假设是否与政策假设一致，即什么有助于确保劳动力市场过渡？这项研究将产生一个纵向定性研究多达30个年轻人在克拉克曼南郡谁是没有就业，教育或培训。预计年轻人的样本将包括前一年离开学校并参与一项或多项就业服务的个人。两波半结构化面试将间隔一年进行。还将与就业能力服务提供者和来自地方当局、企业、教育、苏格兰政府和DWP的其他主要利益攸关方进行更多访谈。深入的定性材料将有助于了解苏格兰新兴的多层次和多部门就业能力的提供是如何经历的年轻人在劳动力市场的边缘。此外，在一个具体领域绘制就业能力支助图，将为提供者和政策行为者提供具体证据，说明这些服务的存在和相互作用，以及它们是否相互补充或重叠。对于地方提供者以及地方和国家政策制定者来说，这项研究将提供经验证据，说明在就业能力支助方面什么是有效的，对谁有效。这项研究将有助于学术辩论的概念化的就业能力举行的政策行为者，以及这些如何与概念化的年轻人的支持服务的目标。研究结果将与合作伙伴和其他主要利益攸关方分享和讨论。针对支助提供者和政策行动者的知识交流讲习班和简报文件将确保在学术界以外传播。

The Scottish Government has introduced a variety of employability initiatives intended to facilitate young people's transition from school to employment. These exist alongside employability supports from third sector organisations. Despite recent progress in lowering youth unemployment prior to the coronavirus pandemic, challenges remain in sustaining transitions with youth unemployment remaining high in some areas, and some of this progress may have been undone by the economic impacts of the pandemic. It is not clear whether Scotland's multi-layered, multi-sectoral employability offer provides complementary support or manifests as unnecessary and/or ineffective duplication. Nor is it clear how young people navigate options and services, or how these feature in the decisions they make around preparing for work. Better understanding is needed of the variety and interactions of informal/formal (employability) provision, of the conceptualisations of employability that underpin services and how the mosaic of provision is experienced by young people themselves. Through a longitudinal qualitative case study of young people's engagement with employability services in Clackmannanshire this project will cast light on these issues. Furthermore, this research will provide understanding of the variety of informal/formal employability provision in the area and how these different initiatives interact. The research is in collaboration with the Clackmannanshire Third Sector Interface. The questions this research seeks to answer are threefold. Firstly, what types of employability support are available to young people? Secondly, how are young people's decisions around labour market transitions affected by their views and experiences of employability support? Thirdly, do young people's views and assumptions about employability supports align with policy presumptions about what works in securing labour market transitions? This research will produce a longitudinal qualitative study of up to 30 young people in Clackmannanshire who are not in employment, education or training. It is anticipated the sample of young people will comprise individuals who have left school the previous year and who have engaged with one or more employability services. Two waves of semi-structured interviews will be conducted at an interval of one year. Additional interviews with providers of employability services and other key stakeholders from the local authority, business, education, Scottish Government and DWP will also be conducted. In-depth qualitative material will add to understanding of how Scotland's emergent multi-layered and multi-sectoral employability provision is experienced by young people at the edges of the labour market. Furthermore, the mapping of employability supports in one specific area will provide concrete evidence for providers and policy actors of the presence and interaction of these services and whether they complement or overlap each other. For local providers and local and national policy makers, this research will provide empirical evidence of what works and for whom in relation to employability support. The research will contribute to academic debates on conceptualisations of employability held by policy actors, and how these align with the conceptualisations held by the young people the support services target. Findings of the research will be shared and discussed with the collaborating partner and other key stakeholders. A knowledge exchange workshop and briefing papers aimed at support providers and policy actors will ensure dissemination outside the academic community.