Social mobility in the UK is at its worst in over 50 years. According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, it is now harder than ever before for people born in low-income households to overcome ingrained inequalities.
Indeed, we’ve seen huge progress, particularly from local government, in setting up these programmes in their local areas. Leeds City Council’s Skills Hub is a perfect example of this. In fact, to date, by working with Leeds City Council, we’ve supported over 380 students, helping them find life-changing careers.
To make the most out of this opportunity, two things need to happen. Firstly, the scale of delivery of skills bootcamps needs to rapidly increase, but without compromising on quality and results. That is a challenge felt by both the Department for Education and the organisations delivering it. Secondly, if we’re to create the most possible impact, the policy needs to be more conscious about who gets access to these opportunities. A distinction should be made between the impact of helping someone who is long-term unemployed to start a job in the tech sector versus upskilling someone who is already in a good job but wants to do something different. While both are value-adding, the impact and investment cases are very different.
The benefits of a more targeted policy that focuses on people who are unemployed can have a huge impact on economic growth. According to our calculations for each unemployed learner trained, we estimate an average return to the government of £6,000 over five years. If the government’s funding was focused on training the one million unemployed people in the UK alone, this would unlock more than £6bn for the UK economy in over five years. A win-win for everyone.
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