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The Ballymun pilot Youth Guarantee is focused on providing young people (18 – 24) with a quality offer of education, training, work experience or employment within a short time of becoming unemployed. We are working with employers, education providers and community organisations to test out new ways to engage with our young unemployed. It has a vital role, not just in supporting the young people of Ballymun, but in informing the development and rollout of the national Youth Guarantee. It was among the first pilot Youth Guarantee projects to receive approval from the EU.

“The Youth Guarantee pilot in Ballymun, which is bringing together all the key stakeholders in one of the country’s most severely disadvantaged areas, has a very important role to play in informing the roll out of the national scheme and showcasing how businesses are delivering programmes to get young people back to work,” 

Paul Carroll, Department of Social Protection

“It is important that the business community does all it can to shape training programs and create opportunities for young people to get to work. The Government’s measures to address this problem will only work if businesses are able to design and integrate the programmes that work for them.”

Gina Quin, CEO Dublin Chamber of Commerce