Youth Guarantee: How to support young people finding a pathway

With the promise that every young person who is not in education, employment or training should be granted with an offer within 4 months, the Youth Guarantee remains the biggest youth employment policy at EU level. Its success remains limited by poor mapping and outreach, mismatch between young people's skills and their offers as well as low quality of the offers. This impacts vulnerable young people, who risk being left further behind, the hardest, as transitions from education to the labour market get increasingly complex and less straightforward. We want to champion a Youth Guarantee which delivers new pathways for young people and can be a source of social inclusion. For that to happen we demand:

• allocation of enough resources under the the European Social Fund+;
• adoption of binding quality standards and turning the Youth Guarantee into a permanent instrument;
• involvement of youth organisations across all phases of the process.