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Artskills works with unemployed young people between 16–35 years from priority excluded groups, including Black & ethnic minority people, women, lone parents & carers, ex-offenders and people at risk of drugs misuse, involvement in crime and long term ill-health. The focus is on removing barriers to individuals having equal opportunity to social and economic progress. |
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Artskills target group are disaffected from education & training, which ranges from cynicism and pessimism about its value to hostility and extreme mistrust of ‘schools and schemes’, often soundly based on previous negative experience. They need convincing that learning is a worthwhile investment of time, confidence to pursue personal and vocational development and motivation towards achievable goals.
"It is clear that some individuals face multiple exclusion, exacerbated by wider economic conditions. For many it is not a simple case of finding a job, but a longer term process, often involving strategic action by a variety of organisations, to identify and remove barriers and to provide appropriate actions and support to move individuals towards hope, skills and sustainable jobs."
Merseyside European Objective One Single Programme Document – SPD, 2000–6
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"Supporting the integration of socially excluded groups into the labour market is often not possible in Pathways areas without overcoming other aspects of exclusion, aiming to reconnect excluded groups and communities to mainstream community life ... actions which provide a step before traditional training and employment measures for those people who have difficulty in participating in such measures."
Priority 4, Measure 26, SPD Programme Complement, 20.6.00 |
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