YACVic's submission to the ACTU Inquiry into Insecure Work
YACVic has made a submission to the Australian Council of Trade Unions’ (ACTU) Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work in Australia. In our submission, we discussed the extent of insecure work for Australian young people aged 15-25 years, the workers who are most at risk of insecure work and why, and the effect of insecure work on regional communities, social inclusion, and community organisations.
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Deferring a University Offer in Regional Victoria Report
YACVic and the Local Learning and Employment Network (LLENs) have released Deferring a University Offer in Regional Victoria which was launched by the Minister for Higher Education and Skills, The Hon Peter Hall, MLC.This report, funded by the Victorian Government, is the third documenting the results of a longitudinal study that YACVic has done in partnership with the LLENs and The Education Policy and Leadership Unit, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne.
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Volunteering is Catching: A study into young people’s volunteering in Victoria 2011
Volunteering is Catching is a study of young people’s experience of volunteering in Victoria and is based on the findings of an online survey of four hundred young people aged 12 to 25. The report details the areas young people were volunteering, their motivations, the barriers as well as the perceived impact of volunteering. The emerging trends for both volunteers and young people who have never volunteered are detailed. There are differences in the experiences of young people with volunteering based upon age, gender, disability, geographical location and cultural diversity which are discussed in this report.
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YACVic’s New Research Report Swimming Upstream: Young People and Service Provision under Job Services Australia
YACVic has examined the provision of employment services to vulnerable or disadvantaged young people under the Job Services Australia (JSA) program. We have chosen to research this area because of the high rates of youth unemployment in Australia. As of June 2011, young people aged between 15 and 24 years were experiencing an unemployment rate of 11.0 per cent, significantly higher than that of the broader Australian community (4.9 per cent). Our report seeks to assess whether the JSA program is currently meeting the needs of young people in Australia.
The report confirms the importance of all generalist and specialised youth JSA service providers adopting best practices when working with young people seeking employment.
In addition, the report recommends that the JSA program provides greater recognition of social or non-vocational outcomes achieved by JSA providers for vulnerable young people and that the JSA program encourage JSA providers to adopt an integrated, flexible and highly individualised approach when working with vulnerable young people.
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