lthough the majority of young people succeed in education and make a positive transition to adult life and the world of work there is still a significant number who need further resources to enable them to succeed. Anecdotal evidence (garnered from meetings and other formal and informal contacts) indicate that individual providers do offer a tailored range of interventions, usually as a direct response to individuals. As a result, providers and partners often feel that they are re-inventing the wheel; that someone somewhere has already addressed this issue in their programmes, but they have not identified who or how to share experiences.

We decided to focus on facilitating partners to share the good practice that improves engagement, retention, achievement and sustained progression of learners – especially those who have come from the NEET cohort