P articipation A ge 1 What is it Raising the Participation Age RPA means that young people will be required to participate in education or training to the end of the academic year in which they are aged 17 from 2013 current year 11 pupils ID: 141573
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Raising the Participation AgeSlide2
1What is it?
Raising the Participation Age (RPA) means that young people will be
required
to participate in education or training:
to the end of the academic year in which they are aged 17, from 2013 (current year 11 pupils)
until their 18
th
birthday, by 2015 (current year 9 pupils)
RPA does not apply if a young person has already attained a level 3 qualification (e.g. 3 ‘A’ levels)
The legislation: Education and Skills Act 2008…
P.S: It’s legislation without mandatingSlide3
2What does it mean?
RPA is
NOT
raising the school leaving age, young people will be able to choose how they participate:
Full-time study:
school sixth form; further education or sixth form college; foundation learning with a training provider
Employment with part-time training:
Apprenticeship; Pre-Apprenticeship; employed, self-employed or volunteering for 20 hours or more a weekSlide4
3Why RPA?
NEET aged
16-18
Unemployment/Under-employment
Lower income
Criminal record
Poor health and depression
By the age of 21, young people who were not participating at 16-17 are more likely to face
Source: Jenkins et. Al.
Returns to Qualifications in England (2007)Slide5
4Why RPA?
By contrast, if young people participate
and attain
at this age, they see the benefits throughout their lives
People with five or more GCSEs at A* - C earn, on average, 9-11% more than those without
Getting two or more A levels leads to men earning £80,000 and women £110,000 more over the course of their lifetime than someone whose highest attainment is 5 or more GCSEs A*-C
Getting a level 3 Apprenticeship increases earnings by an estimated £105,000 and a level 2 Apprenticeship by £73,000Slide6
5What it means for local authorities
Local authorities will be required to:
Promote the effective participation in education or training of all 16 and 17 year olds resident in their area
Make arrangements to identify young people resident in their area who are not participatingSlide7
The opportunitiesSlide8
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Participation
December 2012 data (DfE, May 2013)Slide9
8Diversification of participationSlide10
9Participation and achievement
‘Cross-over’ point between C and D gradesSlide11
10Level 3 at 19 by qualification type (national)
Source:
Level 2 and 3 attainment by young people in England
, SFR 5/2012, DfE Slide12
The challengesSlide13
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NEET
London NEET consistently below the national average, but volume persistently around the 10,000 mark
CCIS, March 2013Slide14
13Teenage mothers:
31% EET and 20% ‘not known’ compared to overall 87% and 9%
Learners with a learning difficulty or disability:
8.1% NEET compared to overall 4.5%
15.6% ‘not known’ compared overall 9.0%
Care leavers:
59% EET and 21% ‘not known’ compared to overall 87% and 9%
Ethnicity:
NEET % varies across different groups, but young people from ‘mixed race – white and black Caribbean’ backgrounds are much more likely to become NEET (7.9%)
NEET characteristics
(London)
CCIS, March 2013 16-18 age groupSlide15
14London’s most vulnerable
Source:
The educational and occupational experiences of London’s youth
, Duckworth, IOE 2012 Slide16
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High student mobilitySlide17
16Participation and employment
20.5% (just under 1 million young people aged 16-24) are unemployed in the UK
An even higher rate of unemployment for London – 21.8% (102,089 young people)
London is highly competitive with 5.2 million working age living in the city and an international workforce
London employers are less likely to recruit a school or college leaver than rest of the UKSlide18
So what…..?Slide19
18If we do nothing…
Each young person
aged 16 to 18 and NEET is estimated to cost the economy £56,000 over the course of their lifetime
Estimated public finance costs (benefits, reduced tax yields) of 16 to18 NEET range from £12bn to £32bn
Estimated resource costs (unemployment, under achievement) of 16 to18 NEET range from £22bn to a staggering £77bnSlide20
19More than participation
Participation
Attainment
Progression