The Untapped Potential of ‘Work’ for Looked After Young People – Challenges and Opportunities
The seminar will explore the transformative potential of ‘work’ (ranging from paid employment to internships to volunteering) for marginalised young people. Using evidence from the Care to Work Pathways Study and wider literature, the presentation will identify different ways in which early and later positive work experience can benefit the social and/or educational progress of young people in care. It will re-imagine some of our ideas about the sequencing, segregation and linking of ‘education’ and ‘work’. It will also consider how foster carers and other adults can help young people in care engage successfully with the world of work.
Date: 23 April 2018, 17:00 (Monday, 1st week, Trinity 2018)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Department of Education, Seminar Room G
Speaker: Professor Robbie Gilligan (Trinity College Dublin)
Organising department: Department of Education
Part of: Department of Education Public Seminars
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Hannah Daley