A framework of outcomes for young people

The Young Foundation 2012

£16,000. The Trust can use just a fraction of this cost – from as little as £1,000 – to put this young person through an intensive personal development course, helping them leave the dole queue for good.67 The work in this area is subject to various assumptions. Although the research has not assigned a financial value to social and emotional capabilities, it provides a clear evidence base of the benefits to the longer-term hard outcomes of improving the social and emotional capabilities of young people.

The Prince’s Trust with the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics (2010) The Cost of Exclusion:

Counting the cost of youth disadvantage in the UK London: The Prince’s Trust

A framework of outcomes for young people

Published on Jul 15, 2012

The Young Foundation

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There is substantial and growing evidence that developing social and emotional capabilities supports the achievement of positive life outcomes, including educational attainment, employment and health. Capabilities such as resilience, communication, and negotiation are also increasingly cited as being the foundations of employability. Yet, at the same time the very services that most explicitly focus on supporting young people to develop these capabilities are under unprecedented financial pressure. This report outlines a step by step approach to measuring these capabilities in practice, that is illustrated in four case studies that exemplify how the Framework might be used by providers, commissioners and funders.

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