Future Capital - Policy Recommendations

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• Training and work placement opportunities for young enterprise, discovered through regional science and technology competitions which major on commercialisation. As it currently stands, sourcing young entrepreneurs in the Arc requires employability and financial education charities to partner with local schools. Competitions are rare, and the prizes awarded do not emphasise the intergenerational transfer of skills and learning otherwise available through work experience and training opportunities.
  
  
• Make S&T apprenticeships mainstream as an alternative to higher education, providing specific funding for employers who have taken on employees aged 21 or below who have completed qualifying work and can demonstrate and justify experience, application, and career trajectory. 
  
  
• Mandate meaningful ways for young people to scrutinise and direct local policy-making which affects them, including through presentations and workshops in schools and universities during the local plan-making process, and for feedback to be given weight at local plan examination.