The document discusses efforts by companies like Accenture, Marks and Spencer, and others to address youth unemployment in the UK. It describes Accenture's Skills to Succeed Academy, which provides online training to develop employability skills for young people. Marks and Spencer outlines its three-part approach including a program with The Prince's Trust giving young people work placements and engaging suppliers. It also discusses the Movement to Work initiative where companies pledge to provide 4-6 week training placements for unemployed youth equivalent to 2% of their workforce and engage suppliers to multiply the impact. The goal is to create 100,000 placements for unemployed youth by June 2015 to help develop skills and lead to jobs.

1. 1Department for Work & Pensions
Sunita Singal
National Employer Service Team
Sunita.singal@dwp.gsi.gov.uk Tel 0121 626 3263
With
Mike Byrne, Managing Director, Health & Public
Sector Management Consulting, Accenture
Jo Daniels, Sustainable Communities Manager
at Marks and Spencer
Making a Difference - what can you do
as a supplier and an Employer?

2. 2Department for Work & Pensions
Supporting those that are furthest from the labour market –
WHAT CAN YOU DO TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
• DWP Key Strategic Objective to help those that are furthest from the
labour market to move into sustainable employment.
• Hear from Accenture as a supplier of services to DWP and their
approach on reducing Youth unemployment.
• Marks and Spencer’s on how they are working with their supplier
community to reduce Youth Unemployment and the 2% UK challenge
announced by Marc Boland.
• We welcome more employer led approaches that are different and
unique and make a difference
• My challenge to you today is that you can all offer something that will
tackle unemployment and make a difference!!
• Not only DWP suppliers but also employers.
• Next steps - how you will take this forward within your own organisations
and consider how you get your supply chains on board.

3. 3Department for Work & Pensions
Making a Difference - what can you do
as a supplier and an Employer?
Mike Byrne, Managing Director, Health &
Public Sector Management Consulting,
Accenture
Skills to Succeed Academy

4. Skills to Succeed Academy

5. CORPORATE SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY
• Built a solution for a target market that has historically
struggled to engage with employability skills learning.
• Focused on advancing employment and entrepreneurship
opportunities through skills development.
• The Academy forms a core part of
Accenture’s volunteering offering in the
UK, aiming to enhance employability
skills of 20,000 15-24 year olds,
predominantly those not currently in
education, employment or training
(NEETS) by the end of 2015.

6. REDUCING YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
Performance
Simulations
Computer Based
Training (CBT)
Role of Advisor
Identify learner needs and
define ‘curriculum’
Identify and work through
participants challenges
Skills to Succeed Academy
Training Handbook
Support materials to assist
Job Advisors/ trainers when
planning, preparing and
delivering the Skills to
Succeed Academy
 Exercises
 Checklists
 Templates
 Action
Plans
YOU AND
YOUR
CAREER
YOU AND
YOUR
CAREER
SUCCESS
IN WORK
SUCCESS
IN WORK
GETTING
A JOB
GETTING
A JOB
Content Materials
Advisor / Trainer-Led Activities
Offline Learning
Mobile app:
InterviewAce
Integrated Training Approach
Innovative, digital, cloud based learning, employability training programme

7. ACADEMY BENEFITS
Category Benefits
Young Jobseekers
• An innovative and interactive training
solution
• Realistic characters, Relevant scenarios
and Engaging techniques
• Covers end-to-end jobseeking journey
DWP
• Adviser led
• Easily integrates into existing programmes
• Digital and cloud based
• It’s free
Accenture
• Increases employee engagement
• Improves capabilities
• Heightened market visibility
• Increased client collaboration

8. SUPPLIER COLLABORATION
• Suppliers brought together with one shared goal
• We collaborated with Voluntary organisations, Education
establishments, Welfare to Work providers and Government
departments/agencies to expand our reach and develop a solution.
• Skills development is key to sustainable employment
• Skills enhancement is the first step to moving people with
disadvantages closer to the labour market.
• Addressing the development of basic employability skills from an
early age is crucial in tackling youth unemployment, and will also
help to enhance UK regeneration, education and economic growth
.
• Reducing unemployment requires long term commitment
• We suppliers need to help by continuing to actively collaborate with
Educational establishments and Industry, to ensure that skills
investment across the sector is targeted effectively and achieves
maximum results.

9. Since April 2012, 10,001 young people have accessed the Skills to
Succeed Academy. Of those that responded to the survey, 72% said that
the Skills to Succeed Academy has increased their employability skills!
*Information captured using the new LMS since April 2013. Note – data on this slide is changing on a daily basis
13,045 training modules completed
Average competence score: 3.72/5*
7,352 hours of online training completed
Average confidence score: 3.77/5*
LMS reporting information:
8,509 young people have accessed the S2S
Academy on the new LMS
Proportion of participants who
responded to the survey and
said:
•They are more confident: 75%
•They have better skills: 72%
•The training is of high quality:
70%
Mobile App Downloads:
iPhone App 302
Android App 100-500
Average quiz score: 3.84/5*
THE ACADEMY WORKS!

10. 10Department for Work & Pensions
Making a Difference - what can you do
as a supplier and an Employer?
Jo Daniels
Sustainable Communities Manager, Plan A
Marks and Spencer
Tackling Youth Employment and Movement to Work

11. 11Department for Work & Pensions
What’s the issue?
1 in 5 young people
aged 16 – 24 are
unemployed
The figures on long-term
youth unemployment are
x4 greater
in the last decade
53% of NEETS
unemployed for more than a
year feel they have been
permanently left
behind
in life due to unemployment
Over the next decade
youth unemployment
could cost the UK an
estimated
£28 Billion*
Young NEETS
are more than x2 as likely
to feel unable to cope
as their peers
1 in 5 young people
aged 16 – 24 are
unemployed

12. 12Department for Work & Pensions
There are three elements to the plan:
1. Delivering Make Your Mark in M&S - Launched in May
2013, Make Your Mark is a programme run with The
Prince’s Trust which has given 1440 young people
(NEETs) a 4 week work placement in an M&S store, with
a 50% into work target for those young people.
2. Engaging our Suppliers- working with a core group of
suppliers across to open up more opportunities for young
people and to test the ‘accelerator model’. Currently have
88 suppliers across Foods, Property & Construction,
Logistics, IT, GM, .Com, will reach c100.
3. Working with other UK Businesses - Movement to
Work
A coalition of businesses committed to building their
programmes and work with their suppliers: Unilever, BT,
Accenture, Tesco, Barclays, Centrica, GSK, National Grid,
HSBC, Kingfisher, BAE Systems, WPP, Civil Service.
10,000 companies - 100,000 placements - 18 months
M&S Approach to Addressing Youth Employment

13. 13Department for Work & Pensions
Movement to Work – Lead Companies

14. 14Department for Work & Pensions
Movement to Work will create 100,000 vocational
training and work experience placements for
young people, aged 18-24, who are not in
education, employment or training (NEET) by
June 2015.
Efforts will be focused on those NEETs who have
been out of education, employment or training
for some time.
The placements will be designed to deliver a wide
range of positive outcomes including developing
new work skills and experience, gaining self-
confidence and motivation, or entering or re-
entering education or training.
In addition, placements will, where possible, be
linked to jobs or apprenticeships in order to
meet the Movement’s aspiration to collectively
support 50% of young people trained to
progress to fixed term or permanent employment.
Employer pledge
To provide 4-6 week
employability training
placements for NEETs aged
18-24 equivalent to up to 2% of
the company's UK workforce.
To link placements, where
possible, to fixed term and
permanent jobs or
apprenticeships.
To engage own supply and
client base in the programme,
asking them to make the same
commitment, in order to create
a nationwide multiplier effect.
Movement to Work – Vision and Pledge
www.movementtowork.com