What is the problem you are working to solve?
We want to help children and young people who cannot currently read text books and other educational material because they are visually impaired, are physically unable to hold a book, or turn the pages or to physically focus or track with their eyes. This is around 5% […]
Excluded Young People
Overview
Young people face potential exclusion at several possible life stages - leaving care, becoming homeless, legal difficulties, becoming young parents. The Innovation Exchange is focussing on young people that are excluded, marginalised and the at-risk. Today there are more than 150,000 14 to 17 year olds not in education, employment or training. This level of exclusion is an issue attracting high levels of public interest and concern, and investment.
Key Topics
Latest Blog posts
Submission for Festival of Ideas
• What is the problem you are working to solve?
There are a vast range of activities & projects that aim to help young people develop their skills and raise their prospects - but how do these projects ensure that young people actually get the benefits they need, and how are young […]
Rural Youth Network is a national charity that works with partners from all sectors to make a difference on the issues that affect young people and those that work with them in rural areas. If you have a Case Study of a example of good practice relating to rural children and young people please send […]
We’re working to solve 3 problems:
lack of access for isolated young people to activities they enjoy, in a space they want to be, and building up their hard and soft skills,
the tendency for frontline organisations not to know what their opposite numbers in other areas are doing and, therefore, not sharing good practice and learning,
sustainability […]
Community Developers International Limited is addressing the problem of youth exclusion that disenables active youth participation in the socio-economic development of the United Kingdom because of identified skills gap.
The project involves a consortium of organisations working as partner members of the Community Developers International Limited on a £10 million rolling project. The organisations are: Catalyst […]
Thanks to a post by Shane on the Gallomanor blog I just came across this short story and video giving examples of how technologies could play a role in challenging young peoples exclusion and independent living for the elderly.
Any ideas in here for the innovation exchange?
Continue reading 'Digital Technologies for Inclusion and Indepdent Living'
Over the weekend I was at the DfID and Civil Society Organisations Youth Working Group Advocacy residential (long title & a busy weekend!). Over dinner I was talking to Helen from Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council, and she shared an idea they’re exploring for exchanges between disadvantaged groups of young people in the UK. It sounded […]
As you already know, last month, we commissioned some independent research into opportunities for innovation in the two fields. We have been interviewing practitioners, commissioners and investors working in the area of excluded young people. We want you to contribute to this research before the final version of the research is published. Below are some […]
The Government plans to create an Institute of Youth Leadership, and putting Aiming High for Young People into action is going to need a massive programme of training for Leaders and Managers of the new Integrated Youth Support Services that are being created.
If we’re going to be creating programmes to support the leaders of […]
Football clubs invest in young players because they know one Wayne Rooney is worth millions. I went this week to a Changemakers event looking at the coming National Institute for Youth Leadership, which is part of the Government’s 10-year youth strategy. It struck me that here this logic is even more powerful - […]
