We've signed the Good Youth Employment Charter, as part of our continued commitment to helping young people into employment through our Apprenticeships and Traineeships.

What is the Good Youth Employment Charter?

The Good Youth Employment Charter has been developed by Youth Employment UK, in collaboration with a range of youth employment experts and young people.

It aims to provide a framework to support, inspire and recognise all those employers who are committed to providing good quality opportunities to young people.

The 5 recognised principles of the charter are:

1. Creating opportunity
   
2. Recognising talent
   
3. Fair employment
   
4. Developing people
   
5. Youth voice

Who Are Youth Employment UK?

Youth Employment UK are a group aimed at supporting young people into employment. Youth Employment UK is an independent, not for profit social enterprise founded in 2012 to tackle youth unemployment. 

They actively tackle youth unemployment by:

• Giving young people a voice on the youth employment issues that affect them
• Supporting young people with the skills and careers support they need to progress
• Supporting employers to develop and be recognised for their youth friendly employment practice
• Connecting young people to Youth Friendly Employers
• Providing expert insight across all youth employment policy areas

Throughout the summer of 2021 Youth Employment UK is coordinating a national campaign called #CreateYourFuture which we will be participating in.

The campaign is designed to help young people build confidence in next steps relating to skills, careers and training/education.