Member

I used to measure the impact of what we were doing. It first started when my boss said to me, “Debbie, I’m getting a company in. I’m going to get them to look at all your data, and I’m just going to see how effective you are to make sure that what you say is true”. My heart was going, I tell you. When the company finished its work, it found that 76% of the young people we got into work were still there a year later; if they were there a year later, they would be there the next year and the year after, so it does work. I hope to see some metrics deployed in the measurement of what we are doing to give us encouragement, and I thank the noble Lord, Lord Ravensdale, for bringing this to the attention of the Committee.