Issue 7 January 2009
Welcome to our January newsletter which brings you up to date on the Private Equity Foundation’s work . If you have any comments or questions about anything in this newsletter, or would like to get involved in our work please contact us.
Young People’s Minister confirmed to speak at PEF’s first conference on 29 January
Children and Young People’s Minister Beverley Hughes MP will speak at PEF’s conference at UBS on 29 January. The event will bring together senior leaders from business, the third sector and local government to design new and powerful ways of supporting NEET young people.
PEF is working in partnership with the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) as a result of a challenge issued by Gordon Brown 18 months ago, asking city leaders to apply their brains to social problems - our particular challenge is the issue of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET).
The Private Equity Foundation’s first research programme finds no NEET solution
PEF’s first research report has shone the spotlight on the complexity of issues facing 16 to 24 year olds not in jobs, education or training (NEET) and the paucity of evidence on what interventions work. In its first piece of commissioned research we found there was almost a total lack of data for measuring attributable impact within the sector.
