Policy for Managers & Staff
Consultation: IAG Services for Young People: Directions and Statutory Guidance for local authorities - The directions and statutory guidance provide a framework for a coordinated approach to planning, managing and reviewing IAG services.
The overarching framework for the Quality Assurance System (QAS) for post-16 education and training - has been published by the DCSF. Since 1 April 2010, local authorities, the Young People’s Learning Agency and the Skills Funding Agency are responsible for commissioning and quality assuring provision for learners over the age of 16. The
QAS has been designed to make clear the roles and responsibilities of providers of post-16 education and training, and also describes the annual process for reviewing and assessing provider performance.
Participation Planning: A toolkit for local authorities - The DCSF has also published a set of tools to help local authorities put into operation the aims set out in the Raising the Participation Age (RPA) delivery plan, published in December 2009. It aims to help local authorities and their partners drive up participation rates further, reduce the proportion of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) and support those in employment without accredited training to access it alongside their job.
Supporting Ambition in our young people: councils and young people aged 14–19 - published by the Local Government Association, which aims to show how local councils will use the transfer of responsibility for commissioning education and training for 16 to 19 year olds (which came into effect on 1 April) to make sure that all the young people in their area are given the opportunity to pursue their ambitions and fulfill their potential. It also gives practical examples of what councils around the country are already doing. Download your copy here.
Better Never Stops - Recently published by The Confederation of Heads of Young People’s Services (CHYPS) and with contribution from the National Connexions Network ‘Better Never Stops’ proposes measures for assessing the quality of integrated youth support services. The publication states that quality assessments for youth services have been ‘significantly absent’ and this has a negative impact on how the delivery of these services is viewed.
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Quality Standards for Positive Activities (DRAFT) - Designed to help young people and their parents/carers understand the quality and breadth of
Positive Activities and at commissioners.
Aiming high for Young People: 3 years on - This document outlines the achievements so far against the three main Aiming High principles.
Moving through the system: information, advice and guidance - This
report focuses on the importance of providing high quality IAG to young people, as well as their parents and carers.
Tackling the NEET problem: how local authorities are getting young people back into education, employment and training – Ofsted report which highlights the strategies, partnerships and activities some local authorities have employed to attract some of the most difficult to reach young people into work or learning.
Careers guidance and participation in education findings from the YELLIS dataset - This report looks at questions about the careers guidance and future participation in education that year 10/11 pupils have responded to over the last 12 years.
Integrated Working Without Boundaries – the London Common Assessment Framework (CAF) Protocol – Guidance on how to use/implememnt the CAF when working across boroughs or organisations.
Functional Skills: the facts - This document sets out the Functional Skills policy and is aimed at anyone involved in delivering functional skills.
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