Workforce ready: Supporting young people with the employability skills that businesses need for growth

Empowering young people with the right skills, helps them to get into and thrive in the workforce. To achieve this, it’s vital that Government, education and business work together to help the development of core, transferable employability skills of young people. This is vital, not only to see young people develop their aspirations and skills for their personal advancement, but also for the growth of our economy and businesses. To better support this Barclays LifeSkills has published a report that sets out five policy recommendations for the government. 

The recommendations have been informed by years of extensive, quantitative, and qualitative evaluations of the Barclays LifeSkills programme, our experience with educators and learners as to what currently works combined with insights and research from employers. 

The report identifies the challenges and barriers affecting young people’s employability as well as factors that support its development, you can read about the recommendations by downloading this report.