Report

Evaluation of partnerships for people and place: Birmingham Project

This report from UK think tank City-REDI aims to capture learning and early impacts of the activities supported by Partnerships for People and Place funding in East Birmingham.

This evaluative assessment has been undertaken by City-REDI and the School of Education based at the University of Birmingham. It aims to capture learning and early impacts of the activities supported by Partnerships for People and Place (PfPP) funding in East Birmingham to improve young people’s access to relevant and meaningful careers information, advice, and guidance.

This report supplements the national evaluation of the PfPP programme completed by IPOS-Mori commissioned by Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC). PfPP supports place-based partnerships to:

trial new ways of working across local and central government and deliver innovative, locally led solutions to key challenges that communities face.

look at whether improved government structures, more flexible funding models and greater collaboration across the public sector could be effective in addressing specific issues in local areas.

The funding of the Birmingham PfPP project enabled testing of new approaches to careers advice, information and guidance and more general awareness of employment opportunities for young people in East Birmingham.

It aimed to raise awareness of a range of career pathways – including vocational career pathways – and reduce the risk of young people becoming NEET. Also funded was a complementary workstream investigating data sources available locally in Birmingham City Council and nationally (including from central government departments – such as the Department for Education [DfE], the Department for Work and Pensions and DLUHC) that have the potential to provide further information on, and relevant to, the experiences of young people transitioning from school into employment and, or further and higher education.