THE NATIONAL DEAF CHILDREN'S SOCIETY (NDCS) – WRITTEN EVIDENCE (YUN0009)

Youth Unemployment Committee inquiry

In summary:

The National Deaf Children's Society believes in giving young deaf people a voice. We asked members of our Young People's Advisory Board and Young Campaigners Network[1] to submit their lived experienced of looking for work and of employment and careers support to the inquiry.

To do this we created an accessible space where deaf young people would feel comfortable sharing their experiences of unemployment and their ideas about how things could be improved.

We created a focus group made up of deaf young people aged 17-24 who had had a range of employment and unemployment experiences. The meeting on the 5th May was held on zoom, with a BSL interpreter and palantypist writing captions live.

We invited an illustrator along (Amber Anderson) who captured those experiences live, and illustrated the below during the meeting, as evidence for your inquiry.

Youth Unemployment Evidence Session: Wednesday 5th May 2021 (illustration text)

Personal Experience of Finding Work:

There are extra barriers to finding work as a young deaf person:

Employment:

Government:

 

 

Education:

Members of our Young People's Advisory Board and Young Campaigners Network would also be happy to give oral evidence to the committee.

Separately from this submission The National Deaf Children's Society has inputted and worked with the Youth Employment Group Disability Sub-group whose submission it fully supports.

 

7th May 2021

 


[1] https://www.ndcs.org.uk/our-services/services-for-deaf-children-and-young-people-8-18/campaigning-for-change/