Second-chance programmes offer a flexible learning environment often with a residential component that is well adapted to early school leavers’ needs and designed to help them back into education. Probably the largest residential second-chance programme is the US Job Corps, which has been operating since 1964. It targets disadvantaged youth up to age 24 and includes academic tuition, vocational training, counselling, social skills training, job placements and also health care (OECD, 2016e). In Australia a smaller-scale second-chance programme is offered through the so-called youth foyers, of which there are currently 14 across the country (OECD, 2016a).