TOTP on Youth Unemployment (Birmingham, 24/02/12)

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 *** RESULTS OF VOTE ***

*** TOP POLICY IS THAT OF LEE MARSHAM ***

Enterprise and Post School Options

Greater inclusion of enterprise in school curriculum and
transformation of post schooling options with a new Ucas style system
for apprentices and a funding stream for Start Up Enterprise ideas.

*** WELL DONE LEE ***

*** THANKS TO ALL WHO ATTENDED AND SPOKE, STAFF AT SOUTH BIRMINGHAM COLLEGE AND SIÔN SIMON FOR CHAIRING ***

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Youth Unemployment

24 February, South Birmingham College (Digbeth Campus), 7pm – 9pm

Please come along to the second PRAGMATIC RADICALISM ‘TOP OF THE POLICIES’event of 2012, focusing on youth unemployment. This is a joint event with with BIRMINGHAM FABIANS and THE YOUNG FABAINS, hosted and chaired by SIÔN SIMON.

Pragmatic Radicalism is a group of Labour activists and writers committed to exploring new policy ideas and stimulating debate. We published our first pamphlet in July 2011 and held a well-received ‘Top Of The Policies’ event at Labour Conference in Liverpool in 2011, as well as an event on skillsearlier this year in Westminster.

The details of the youth unemployment event in Birmingham on 24 February are:

CHAIR: SIÔN SIMON, Campaigner for Elected Mayor in Birmingham, Former Labour MP for Birmingham Erdington

SPEAKERS: Any Labour Party member who submits an idea in advance of the event. Up to 20 speakers. To submit an idea please email john.slinger@pragmaticradicalism.co.uk

  • UP TO 20 SPEAKERS WITH 2 MINS EACH TO PRESENT A POLICY IDEA
  • 2 MINUTES Q&A PER POLICY
  • ONE VOTE – ONE TOP POLICY TO TACKLE YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT

WHEN? 7PM-9PM, FRIDAY 24 FEBRUARY

WHERE? SOUTH BIRMINGHAM COLLEGE (DIGBETH CAMPUS)

Digbeth Campus
High Street Deritend, Digbeth,
Birmingham B5 5SU
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For an idea of how the Top Of The Policies format works see details of our successful LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE FRINGE http://tinyurl.com/6eexteq & http://tinyurl.com/673na33.

Please promote this event – TWITTER @PragRad  #TopOfThePolicies

FACEBOOK event –  https://www.facebook.com/events/307273612655587/

Please RSVP to john.slinger@pragmaticradicalism.co.uk

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John Slinger

About John Slinger

John Slinger is a Labour Party activist, writer (he blogs at http://slingerblog.blogspot.com) and former member of the National Parliamentary Panel. His is an ective member of Rugby CLP (@Rugby_Labour). He is a member of the Fabian Society, Progress and Unite. He currently works for strategic communications firm Quiller Consultants. He formerly worked for Ann Clwyd MP in the House of Commons, during which time he supported her in her capacity as the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to Iraq on Human Rights and as Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party. He visited the US in 2009 as part of the US State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program focusing on foreign policy. Twitter @JohnSlinger

12 Comments

  1. Posted February 21, 2012 at 11:17 AM

    IDEA SUBMITTED:

    Young people join together in communal teams, deciding and delivering neighbourhood improvements with personal and collaborative portfolios, rated by peers and rewarded by intensive, work-based mentoring by staff in organisations approaching retirement age, with experiences designed to further enhance employability.

    Participants will gain real-world experience and acknowledgement of transferable skills, a deal will be done with employers for quality placements and long-term support for participants (e.g. Mayoral Markets could be created to showcase products, services and individuals.)

    Tony Kennedy: Birmingham City Councillor and previously a young activist.

  2. Posted February 21, 2012 at 11:20 AM

    POLICY IDEA SUBMITTED:

    MASSIVELY MULTIPLY UNPAID INTERNSHIPS

    Free work experience is a gateway into several of the key professions;
    it is a social leveller and should be a natural part of a young person’s
    working life.

    Simon Hogg, Wandsworth Labour Councillor

  3. Posted February 21, 2012 at 11:23 AM

    POLICY IDEA SUBMITTED:

    Opportunities to develop business skills at school as part of the curriculum to enable young people not only to look for employment later in life, but to be in a position to create employment for others as entrepreneurs.

    Waseem Zaffar
    Councillor for Lozells & East Handsworth Ward

  4. Posted February 21, 2012 at 7:02 PM

    POLICY IDEA SUBMITTED:

    DEVELOP EDUCATIONAL AND INDUSTRY LINK

    The education system and the labour market have to go hand in hand. Students/undergraduates should use one year during the course of their study for industrial attachment.

    The education system teaches the young something whereas the workplace demands a totally different thing. The demand of the workplace and the inputs injected do not match; lack of co-ordination is the dominant.

    Industrial attachment will acquaint students with practical knowledge, prepare them in advance and help them to establish industry networks and contacts.

    Maria Kerr, Social Care Consultant, Director Ollivia Foods.

  5. Posted February 23, 2012 at 9:48 AM

    POLICY IDEA SUBMITTED:

    Require Local Government Pension Funds to invest in Youth Employment Business Bonds to invest in businesses employing 30-50% young employees.

    Require each UK Local Government Pension Fund to allocate just 1% of their assets currently in investment (£161billion) each year for the next 5 years, up
    to 5% by 2016, into a UK Young Employment Local Investment Bond or UK Social Impact Bonds for equity investment into businesses employing 30-50% young employees.

    Cllr John Clancy
    Birmingham City Council
    Quinton Ward

  6. Posted February 23, 2012 at 10:02 AM

    POLICY IDEA SUBMITTED:

    INVEST YOUR TIME AND YOUR CV WILL SHINE!

    With rising levels of youth unemployment and the coalition government’s policies only decreasing the chances of the positive economic and social progression of the vast majority of young people coming in to view, it’s time for institutions of further and higher education to encourage their students to become volunteers to build up their skills and employability and in doing so give something back to their community.

    As well as good qualifications of both a vocational or academic nature invaluable long term work experience shows commitment, reliability, punctuality and enthusiasm in a potential employee and may go some way to making our young people ambassidors of our great city and country who can compete with the best of skills and qualifications in an international market on the international stage of competition and progression.

    Ahmad Bostan

    Co-Managing Director of Unity FM and the presenter of Noor TV’s official weekly current affairs show (The Talking Point TV Show)

  7. Posted February 23, 2012 at 1:18 PM

    POLICY IDEA SUBMITTED:

    Peer Mentoring – By and For Young People

    Pair up young people out of work with peers in work using a mentoring scheme run by and for young people. Job Centres working with local community groups could be used to facilitate regular conversations between in and out of work peers, where the in work young person offers advice and encouragement to a peer seeking work.

    Brian Duggan
    Young Fabian National Executive Committee

  8. Posted February 23, 2012 at 3:12 PM

    POLICY IDEA SUBMITTED:

    TOP GEAR

    Young people are further disadvantaged in the job market when opportunities are based in out of town locations with little or no public transport at times that suit shift patterns.  Innovative incentives such as free driving lessons at the end of work placements is one solution.

    Vicky Pietersen, Labour Party member – Rugby

  9. Posted February 23, 2012 at 4:48 PM

    POLICY IDEA SUBMITTED:

    DO JOB CENTRES HELP REDUCE YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT AND DO THEY NEED WHOLE SCALE REFORM IN A POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY?

    With nearly a quarter of all young people between 16-24-year-olds not in education, employment or training (NEETs) and facing the dole queue, job centres need urgent root and branch reform so they are genuinely effective resource providers and a real part of the solution. The old labour exchange model has no place in a post-industrial, service-led economy.

    Amanda Ramsay – former Labour Councillor and Cabinet Member

  10. Posted February 23, 2012 at 11:16 PM

    POLICY IDEA SUBMITTED:

    Enterprise and Post School Options

    Greater inclusion of enterprise in school curriculum and
    transformation of post schooling options with a new Ucas style system
    for apprentices and a funding stream for Start Up Enterprise ideas.

    Lee Marsham, Birmingham UpRising Alumni Advisory Board

  11. Posted February 24, 2012 at 11:10 AM

    POLICY IDEA SUBMITTED:

    Cut in National Insurance contributions for all under the age of 25 for 2 years.

    That could be funded through extra borrowing without impacting on the structural deficit.

    Alternatively if proposals have to be fiscally neutral, I would suggest funding it through a windfall tax on bank profits (on which they are paying little taxes given the big losses they ran up in the crash, which they can roll forward to minimise their tax bills).

    Professor David Bailey
    Coventry University Business School

  12. Posted February 24, 2012 at 12:52 PM

    POLICY IDEA SUBMITTED:

    Tax rebates for anyone mentoring a young unemployed person for the long-term
    A 1% income tax rebate should be paid to anyone who mentors a young unemployed person for more than three years. Youth charities such as UpRising, IntoUniversity would be asked to select and host the mentors. Funding for this would come from central government, local councils and businesses.

    John Slinger – Chair of Pragmatic Radicalism, member of Rugby Labour Party

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