Where we work

We work with young people from all over Birmingham and Solihull. We also get referrals from Coventry and parts of the Black Country e.g. Sandwell, Walsall and West Bromwich.

Local area map

Issues our young people face

We’re putting a lot of effort into working with 13-15 year olds at risk of exclusion, truanting or underachieving due to their behaviour. We are also strongly focusing on health. We are members of the C Card scheme and have recently become a clamhydia testing sight approved by the Brook Advisory Centre.

Our focus is on those over-16 young people who are not in education, employment or training. We are also working with those young people in Birmingham that have mental health difficulties. We are playing a key role in improving those difficult transition stages for young people from leaving care, from school and from CAMHs.

Local stats

Boys account for 80% of permanent exclusions and three quarters of fixed term exclusions

Boys are four times as likely as girls to be identified as having a behavioural, emotional and social difficulty.

Birmingham’s unemployment rate is 5.7 per cent – more than double the national average.

14.92% young people are not in education, employment or training (NEET).

50% of people lack basic level 2 skills in numeracy and higher level skills are also low. Rates of achievement at level 2 by age 19 are below the national average.

The Centre for Social Justice discovered that Birmingham has nearly 180,000 people of working age who are economically inactive and for the last five years the number of working-age residents claiming a key benefit has been static at around 130,000.