What can be done to address the employment issues faced by young people from ethnic minority backgrounds?

At 10.15am the committee will hear from:

• Sean Harford HMI – National Director for Education (outgoing), Ofsted.

At 11.15am the committee will hear from:

• Jason Arday – Trustee, Runnymede Trust
• Dr Gurleen Popli – Senior Economics Lecturer, University of Sheffield.

These evidence sessions will be held remotely and streamed on Parliament TV.

Topics the committee is likely to cover include:

• Ofsted’s role in ensuring young people are equipped with the knowledge and life skills they will need.
• The role careers education plays in Ofsted’s evaluation of schools’ and colleges’ preparation of young people for work.
• How Ofsted ensures that providers of technical education are effectively assessed on a par with other mainstream providers.
• The long-term structural inequalities faced by young people from ethnic minority backgrounds in terms of employment and economic inactivity.
• Why young people from ethnic minority backgrounds are more likely to be unemployed, underpaid and on unstable contracts.
• Why young people from ethnic minority backgrounds may have faced greater impacts from COVID-19 than their white peers and how this imbalance can be addressed.
• The role Government programmes can play in supporting young people from ethnic minority backgrounds into work.

More on this inquiry

Last week the committee took evidence from: Oli de Botton, Chief Executive, Careers & Enterprise Company; Ryan Gibson, National Careers Champion, Academies Enterprise Trust; Professor Sir John Holman, Emeritus Professor, University of York; Jennifer Coupland, Chief Executive, Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE), Tom Dower, Principal, UTC South Durham; and Tony Ryan, Chief Executive, Design and Technology Association.

You can watch the sessions back on Parliament TV.

The committee’s work can be followed on its webpage and via Twitter.