Raising the Participation Age (RPA)
What is Raising of the Participation Age (RPA)?
RPA is the Government’s policy that by 2013, all young people will be expected to stay in some form of learning until they are 17 and up to age 18 by 2015. This will be the first time in nearly forty years that the leaving age has been raised!
The first young people affected by the RPA are:
- Currently in Year 9 (academic year 2010/2011). They will be the first to be required to stay in education or training until they are 17.
- Young people currently in Year 8 will be the first to be required to continue until 18 in 2015.
Learning could be school, college, training or a job with training.
The following national materials are available for more information on the RPA through the Department of Education’s (DfE)
website.
- Quality, Choice and Aspiration: A strategy for young people’ information advice and guidance
- The statutory guidance for impartial careers education and guidance
- Moving Up — a guide for young people produced by DCSF
- Raising the Participation Age: supporting local areas to deliver the plan from the DfE setting out how local areas need to prepare
- Raising Expectations — an executive summary produced by the DfE.
What is Raising of the Participation Age (RPA)?
RPA is the Government’s policy that by 2013, all young people will be expected to stay in some form of learning until they are 17 and up to age 18 by 2015. This will be the first time in nearly forty years that the leaving age has been raised!
The first young people affected by the RPA are:
- Currently in Year 9 (academic year 2010/2011). They will be the first to be required to stay in education or training until they are 17.
- Young people currently in Year 8 will be the first to be required to continue until 18 in 2015.
Learning could be school, college, training or a job with training.
The following national materials are available for more information on the RPA through the Department of Education’s (DfE)
website.
- Quality, Choice and Aspiration: A strategy for young people’ information advice and guidance
- The statutory guidance for impartial careers education and guidance
- Moving Up — a guide for young people produced by DCSF
- Raising the Participation Age: supporting local areas to deliver the plan from the DfE setting out how local areas need to prepare
- Raising Expectations — an executive summary produced by the DfE.
