The Commission on Education and Employment Opportunities for Young People (Youth Commission) aims to find ways to improve education and employment opportunities for England's 16-24-year olds. The Commission's first report (see ED604277) identified five key challenges: (1) Better supporting 700,000 young people not in education, employment or training; (2) Increasing the number of people qualified to at least Level 3; (3) Improving attainment in literacy and numeracy and other basic skills; (4) Creating a diversity of higher level learning routes through life; and (5) Support job quality, career progression, and economic security. This report provides case study evidence of national and international approaches to youth education and employment, contextualising them in the current situation in England, and drawing out key lessons. These case studies (from Switzerland, Glasgow (Scotland), Germany, Newcastle (England), France, Spain, US, and the UK) offer lessons both in building programmes, and in designing systems in which such programmes can be delivered. Taken together they provide a framework for exploring ways in which an effective and integrated system for delivering practical, sustainable and valuable support for young people can be created. [The Learning and Work Institute's Youth Commission will run for one year and is supported by Association of Colleges, Capital City Colleges Group, London SouthBank University, NOCN and Prospects.]