Above Beyond Care will work collaboratively with a range of partners that will include, employers, training providers, colleges, career coaches, connexions and Job Centre Plus to support, develop and deliver programmes and initiatives that offer young people a future for success.

Improving the employability of young people has been the focus of public policy for a number of years. It is important that we at ABC support the initial work experiences of young people entering the job market who maybe in our care and to discover how these early months of work affect their long-term employability.

We at ABC aim to:

Support young people’s expectations and listen to their views on qualifications and training;
Guide them on their first experiences of work and support them throughout the jobs that they take;
Raise their awareness on how employers recruit young people and the skills and attributes they most value;
Listen to employers’ views on how young people could be made more employable;
Identify examples of good practice in the recruitment and training of young people.
There is a real need to develop generic and transferrable skills for young people and concerns about the skills they require as new entrants to the labour market will be different to each individual, however we at ABC we will use the following skills to develop and improve the young person in readiness for entering the labour market.

Communication
Working with others
Improving own learning and performance
Problem solving
Developing transferable skills.