There is a huge pool of talent among young people from Black, Asian and Mixed Heritage backgrounds and we work to promote this group to employers. For ARE, having a more equal society means young people will believe that their race, ethnicity or faith won’t limit what they can achieve in life – and employment is central to this.
In working with young people to develop their employability and enhance their opportunities to find the meaningful career they aspire to, ARE has published information to help employers.
Commissioned by the Greater London Authority, ARE, through the Moving On Up programme, has developed the Inclusive Employers Toolkit, offering free advice to employers in the capital.
Moving On Up is ARE’s groundbreaking employment initiative for young Black men aged 16 – 24.
The Inclusive Employers Toolkit aims to help companies adopt commitment from the top levels of leadership to increase recruitment, retention and progression of young Black men within their workforces. It is for use by senior leaders and recruitment staff within companies in the construction and digital technology industries, and their suppliers. It will equip employers with practical tools and examples of good practice from within these sectors.
NEW PROGRAMME
ARE Infrastructure Programme
ARE is delighted to have been awarded funding from the Youth Futures Foundation for a two-year programme to strengthen national, Black, Asian and Minority ethnic-led organisations providing employability services.
Why this programme?
We know that unemployed young people need employability programmes that also offer holistic support from practitioners with cultural competency and, in many cases similar lived experience. Many Black, Asian and Minority-ethnic led organisations already provide this.
ARE is keen to ensure this sector has consistent, high-quality provision to support young people into employment; employment, whether that is by providing mentoring, delivering employability support, working with employers to source and fill vacancies and/or providing wraparound services.
We want to create a more resilient sector, better able to support our young people into good jobs.
Within this exciting new programme, we will also be developing a Youth Panel to embed the “Youth Voice” throughout our work.
