Effective Transitions Fund evaluation

Findings report & Technical report

The Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC) administered £2 million funding from JPMorganChase to deliver targeted support and build the evidence base on effective careers education for disadvantaged young people at points of transition. The Effective Transition Fund, an initiative to help connect disadvantaged young people in England with the education and skills they need to prepare them for their future careers, delivered over two years of targeted support across ten projects, that were delivered by Careers Hubs in England.[1] This provided support for over 1,000 young people in Year 10 and 11.

The objectives of the Effective Transitions Fund were:

■    to deliver targeted transition support to enable disadvantaged young people in Key Stage 4 to achieve sustained engagement in high-quality post-16 destinations; and

■    to build the evidence base of effective interventions for the target group by understanding the impact of long-term targeted support on achieving high quality sustainable destinations.

CEC commissioned a consortium of organisations to support project incubation and design, and then to evaluate the projects: this was formed of the Institute for Employment Studies, the International Centre for Guidance Studies, and the Behavioural Insights Team.

The evaluation findings report is accompanied by a supporting technical report and also a standalone executive summary. All documents can be downloaded from the bottom of this page.