Social Impact

The employment of previously disengaged young people has a significant positive impact on the broader community. It comes in the form of reduced health costs, reduced justice and welfare expenditure, and increased social cohesion and economic productivity.

Successfully helping disadvantaged young people into long term work can have a wider social impact through reduced intergenerational issues of low education, unemployment and poverty, and an increased participation in the political process and higher levels of social capital.

Experts estimate that by keeping one long term unemployed youth in work for 12 months, the community benefits from cost savings of around $100,000.