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To Increase Employment Rates For Young Black Men In London 37
ACTION AREA THREE:
Creating more pathways into employment and
enterprise for young black men.
Suggested actions:
12: Establishing a funding programme to test and evaluate
new ways of creating pathways into employment or enterprise
for young black men. This action is already underway,
led by Trust for London.
13: Initiating or expanding schemes which engage
successful black men in mentoring and as role models
for young black men.
14: Initiating or expanding schemes which bring more
employers into direct contact with young black male
job seekers.
15: Encouraging and supporting black-owned and
black-managed businesses to create apprenticeships.
16: Engaging young black men in design and testing of
new approaches to helping young black men to set up
their own businesses.
ACTION AREA FOUR:
Challenging racism and negative stereotyping
Suggested actions:
17: Generating press coverage for the positive achievements
of young black men.
18: Supporting young black men to work together to
find ways of challenging negative media stereotypes.
19: Developing a more responsive complaints system
within Jobcentre Plus for clients to report cases where
they have experienced racial discrimination in job
interviews.
20: Supporting action research which engages employers in
identifying and removing barriers which prevent young
black men from getting jobs.
21: Developing resources to help employers to
recognise negative stereotypes of young black men
and to recognise how stereotyping can lead to bias
or discrimination in recruitment decisions. This could
build on the training materials developed through the
‘Preventing Racist Violence’ work funded by Trust for
London.
BLACK TRAINING AND ENTERPRISE GROUP