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Young Researchers Barriers 2E ducation 2019 - 2020 Young people trained in research skills carried out research to shape service development of local authorities and their partners. 2019- 2020 they researched the topic of barriers and enablers to education. This is their full report and is screen reader friendly! Funded by Southern Universities Network • Delivered by Participation People 1 / 79 Executive Summary Positive family inuencers are just as important as exciting higher education opportunities to reduce barriers to education for young people. In 2019/20 Southern Universities Network (SUN) Young Researchers designed and delivered a survey with 11-18 year olds (young people) across Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. 2,786 responded through the survey. We also ran 6 focus groups with 57 vulnerable young people to help give context to our data. 8% of young people said they don't get any help from their family to help them achieve in Young people told Young Researchers about: education. 1. The barriers to their education 15% of young people think that badly 2. Doing well at school maintained schools have a negative impact on 3. Family and social inuencers to aspiring their learning. Being in trouble at school (25% of young SUN responded, pledging to improve their offer people) had a continued negative impact on to young people by: young people's education. Focussing on raising young people's self Being from a vulnerable group negatively condence through their programmes. impacts young people's self condence which, in Working with schools to deliver inspiring turn, negatively impacts their education. PSHE higher education and further 63% of young people from year groups 7-10 education focussed events and activities. think group work is the most effective teaching Supporting parents to get the right method. 58% of young people from year groups information to help advise their children. 11-14 think good feedback is the most effective. 4% of young people told us that they were not Young Researchers are looking forward to motivated to learn. Young Researchers wonder hearing what other decision makers will do to how teachers would answer, "do you feel respond to their ndings throughout 2020. motivated to teach?" And if there would be a correlation to how students felt. Our "HEADLINE" ndings include: Younger young people told us that clubs and sports helped prepare them best for later life. 71% of young people told us that their Older young people told us work experience and families inuence decisions about their part time work helped prepare them the best. future. 2 / 79 Table of contents Page title Page number Executive summary 2 Who are SUN Young Researchers? 4 Who are Participation People? 5 Method 6 - 10 Survey 11 - 52 Focus Groups 53 - 58 Data analysis 59 - 72 Next steps 72 - 74 Equalities data 75 - 78 Contact 79 Being a Young Researcher has changed how I see data and what I understand as unconscious bias. Working in a team has also challenged my perception of what is and isn't reality for young people across Hampshire. When does the next project start?" Abi, female, 15 3 / 79 Who are SUN Young Researchers? Are a group of young people, aged 13-18 from across Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole; trained in: research, facilitation and presentation skills. n e 6,000 d SUN Young Researchers is a project involving n o p 5,000 young people from Hampshire, Isle of Wight, s e r y Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, aged e 4,000 v r u 11-18, SUN and Participation People. s 3,000 f o r e 2,000 b The project began in 2018. Since then, young m u 2019 2020 N people have been asked to research the Year following topics: Higher education There was a lot of qualitative data to crunch this Careers events year; as Young Researchers delivered 6 focus Aspirations groups with more vulnerable young people. This year, they were asked to investigate young We have written this report to be young person people's habits, perceptions and lived friendly and hope student councils will use it to experiences of: give their campaigns clout! 1. Barriers to education 2. Enablers to education Since running the survey a few things have 3. Young people's inuencers on decisions changed locally and nationally including, but not about their future exclusive of: Young Researchers have learnt and improved A new government, including new leadership on lots of skills throughout the project. Their of government departments. top 10 this year were: The UK is no longer part of Europe. 1. Condence Covid19 pandemic. 2. Communication skills A new focus on technical qualications for 3. Team work young people. 4. Questioning skills GCSE and A-Level exam cancellations and 5. Data analysis changes to grading. 6. Presentation skills 7. Leadership 9. Speaking with different audiences 10. Problem solving 4 / 79 Who are Participation People? Simply, we empower and enable young people to improve services they use. Participation People believe services improve when you work creatively with the people who use them! We care about IMPACT and the difference made to peoples’ everyday lives. We want to help everyone: Improve service performance. Be responsive and agile to the We are and changing needs of young people. playful in practice serious Increase or repurpose resources to about solutions. effectively meet the needs of young people. Our values are central to how we do our work: Improve service reputation. Improve satisfaction of services with Have fun! children, young people and families. Empower young people to develop a strong voice. Work with services to develop actionable plans. We can be confident in the Challenge the views and perceptions of all knowledge that young those engaged. Build projects that are self-sustaining through people’s voices are truly building capacity, training and funding. shaping the future of our service design.” Sue Regan, Early Help Group Leader, Royal Borough of Greenwich 5 / 79 Method "Teamwork makes the dream work" Participation People and Young Researchers worked together to listen to and value young people's voices, aged 11- 18 across South of England. 6 / 79 Methodology The Young Researchers designed and delivered a county wide survey and series of focus groups with young people across Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. 28 young people aged 13-18 were recruited from: Richard Taunton Sixth Form College, Barton Perveril College, Crookhorn College, UTC Portsmouth, Southdowns, Poole Grammar School, Redbridge Community School, Bournemouth and Poole College, Itchen Sixth Form College, Peter Symonds, Castle View Academy, Parkstone Grammar, Admiral Lord Nelson School, South Down This method has been developed over 7 years in School, Portchester Community School, partnership with professional researchers, SUN, Dorset Mountbatten Secondary School, Crestwood Council and Participation People. Community School, The Henry Cort Community College and St Anne's Catholic This year, we recruited a diverse group of Young School. Researchers, with very different experiences of education and support needs. We ran more focus Every school and college were written to groups than in previous years, targeting vulnerable and invited to take part. Young young people. We changed our approach for 3 Researchers applied for the position and reasons: were invited to a taster day. They were put To ensure those hardest to reach could have a voice. through a rigorous accredited training and Mitigate unconscious bias risks to the project. induction programme to: Investigate how family and culture inuences young 1. Learn skills needed for the project. people's choices for their further education path. 2. Understand the research topics. 3. Run desk top research. Their data will inform decision making across Councils, 4. Design the survey. NHS, Police and Schools. We are very excited to hear 5. Design and facilitate focus groups. what decision makers think about our ndings and 6. Promote the survey. how they will use it. Young Researchers will help us 7. Analyse data and write the report. make sure that decision makers: 8. Present to Decision Makers. 9. Co-produce their ndings with decision 1. Respond makers. 2. Make action plans 10. Improve services with young people. 3. Follow up on what they promised 7 / 79 Population data Who took part? Read on... We had a very high response from year 7 and Table showing the number of responses from 8. We put this down to many of the Young pupils receiving pupil premium. Researchers being a similar age and able to Do you receive pupil premium % inuence their Head of Year to roll out the OR free school meals? survey in form tutor time. Thank you Young Yes 12% Researcher's Heads of Year! No 79% A high number of respondents on pupil Not sure 9% premium replied, which is brilliant. We have used this data and compared it with young Graph showing % survey respondents by age people who aren't on pupil premium to check Year 7 they aren't getting a poorer service. Year 8 Year 9 We had a few silly answers to our survey too. Year 10 Year 11 Young people wrote swear words, star wars Year 12 references or skipped answering the question. Year 13 We cleaned those up. Year 14 Other We also compared and contrasted respondent 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 answers from the following categories: % survey respondents Aged 15 and under Graph showing % survey respondents by gender Aged 16 and over Living rurally compared to living in an Male 42% urban setting Pupil premium Female 54% In care or have experiences of being in care Non binary 2% Male and female answers Other 2% Learning difculty or disability Prefer not to say 3% We do this to check our ndings across 0 10 20 30 40 50 different groups were the same AND come up % survey respondents with recommendations where groups are *Introduced in 2011, the pupil premium is a sum of money given to negatively affected.