Report
Expanding the Fedcap UK Clubhouse Sustainable Employment Model
Spotlight on Breaking Britain's Barriers
The Question
How are local communities working to break the cycles of unemployment?
Our Approach
Rather than studying complex social and economic challenges only through aggregate data or after-the-fact analysis, Spotlight follows them into communities to understand how they are experienced and how solutions unfold in real time. We connect what we learn directly to those shaping policy. This is our innovative Research in Real Time approach.
Which signals of future disengagement are visible, and at what age?
Where does the current system lose people, and why?
What are the barriers that keep working age adults out of the labour market, and how do they interact?
What distinguishes interventions that work from those that do not?
The Premise
Path to economic opportunity is shaped by complex mix of circumstances from school and skills, to health and disability and place
Barriers build across education, employment, health, and place. Understanding how they connect helps us identify the moments where the right intervention can change what happens next.
The Problem
Unemployment rarely begins with a lost job. More often, it is the endpoint of a cumulative road that begins in childhood.
People fall through the gaps between siloed services when what they need is a system built around the person, not the problem.
Current State Analysis
Early Indicators
School • Family • Community
Youth Disengagement
Education • Skills • Confidence • Mental health
Adult Inactivity
Health • Skills • Disability • Place
Sustained education or employment and progression
Entrenched inactivity
Track Live Updates
Research in Real Time
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Communities
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Interviews
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Stories
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Findings
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Spotlight on Doncaster
Falkirk
Healthy Minds
Fife
Economically Inactive Survey
Sussex
Restart
Surrey
Restart
Chichester
The Ladder
Slough
Restart
Basingstoke
Apex
Staines
Clubhouse
Brighton
Clubhouse
Croydon
The New School
Doncaster
Big Picture Learning
falkirk
Falkirk
Healthy Minds
56.003756
-3.714269
fife
Fife
Economically Inactive Survey
56.0713
-3.4586
sussex
Sussex
Restart
50.833404
-0.776938
surrey
Surrey
Restart
51.237716
-0.576356
chichester
Chichester
The Ladder
50.833404
-0.776938
slough
Slough
Restart
51.510665
-0.59888
basingstoke
Basingstoke
Apex
51.2668
-1.0876
staines
Staines
Clubhouse
51.4335
-0.5069
brighton
Brighton
Clubhouse
50.8225
-0.1372
croydon
Croydon
The New School
51.42143419
-0.09521865
doncaster
Doncaster
Big Picture Learning
53.48940832
-1.23782833
Research Findings
Updated in Real Time
Real people. Real Places. Real Change.
IMAGE PLACEHOLDER — Croydon story photo (Figma source layer is blank/transparent)
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A new start in Croydon
The New School helped this family believe in a different future
IMAGE PLACEHOLDER — Doncaster story photo (Figma source layer is blank/transparent)
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Spotlight on Staines
The New School helped this family believe in a different future
IMAGE PLACEHOLDER — Brighton story photo (Figma source layer is blank/transparent)
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Spotlight on Doncaster
The New School helped this family believe in a different future
IMAGE PLACEHOLDER — Basingstoke story photo (Figma source layer is blank/transparent)
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Spotlight on Brighton
The New School helped this family believe in a different future