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Corporate Social Responsibility

‘Secure Futures’

employability programme

launched by the Security

Institute and EY Foundation

The Security Institute are delighted to be launching the ‘Secure Futures’ programme with the EY Foundation, as part of the
Institute’s ongoing #NextGen initiative. The EY Foundation is a social mobility charity which seeks to break down barriers to
employment for less advantaged young people.

The ‘Secure Futures’ programme will support twenty-seven 16-18-year-olds from low-income backgrounds to access invaluable
experience within the security industry, empowering them to consider pursuing careers working within the sector. The new
bespoke employability programme will run for 10-months and include skills training, professional mentoring and paid work
experience. This is the EY foundation’s first multi-employer collaboration, working with leading bodies and employers across the
security sector to virtually deliver a Secure Futures programme from February 2021.

Security is a UK growth sector, with jobs available across personal, physical and cyber security, in security firms and embedded in
all kinds of businesses and this programme has been designed to introduce young people to the vast opportunities within security.

Thanks to the support of their sponsors, including Security Industry Authority (SIA), the Security Institute and EY Foundation will
be working with a number of well-known organisations to provide the twenty-seven young people with paid work experience,
opportunities to gain a variety of transferable skills and mentoring from a security professional through 2021 to help them identify
their next step.