Respond to the recommendations of the Expert Panel on Youth Employment.
What success looks like
The recommendations of the Expert Panel on Youth Employment will help inform future decisions on how best to help young Canadians succeed in the labour market.
Government's narrative on progress
The government created an Expert Panel on Youth Employment to examine the key barriers faced by youth in obtaining employment, and the main challenges faced by employers in hiring youth. The Panel delivered its final report in June 2017, which included recommendations on how to best help young Canadians succeed in the labour market. The Panel's report will inform ongoing work on the renewal of the Youth Employment Strategy (YES). Through Budget 2017, the government is investing an additional $395.5 million over three years, starting in 2017–18, for the YES. Combined with Budget 2016 measures, these investments will help more than 33,000 vulnerable youth develop the skills they need to find work or go back to school; create 15,000 new green jobs for young Canadians; and provide over 1,600 new employment opportunities for youth in the heritage sector. Through Budget 2018, the government provided an additional $448.5 million over five years, starting in 2018–19, to the YES. This funding will support the continued doubling of the number of job placements funded under the Canada Summer Jobs program in 2019-20 and provide additional resources for a modernized YES in the following years, building on the input of the Expert Panel on Youth Employment. In Budget 2019, the government proposes to invest an additional $49.5 million over five years, starting in 2019–20, to launch a modernized Youth Employment Strategy informed by the recommendations of the Expert Panel on Youth Employment and extensive engagement with youth, service delivery organizations and other stakeholders. The modernized YES will embrace a “no wrong door” approach with the aim of ensuring that all young people have access to the supports they need, including enhanced supports for young people facing more serious barriers to joining and staying in the workforce. This investment will support work placements, build partnerships with stakeholders, test pilot programs for hiring youth and improve program evaluation. It will also support the ongoing development of the Youth Digital Gateway—an online, interactive, user-friendly platform to help youth access federal supports, that is focused on outcome-based results. A renewed Youth Employment Strategy is expected to be announced in Spring 2019.
Note: this is the government's own description, not an independent assessment.