Realising young potential: supporting care leavers into education, employment and training – This report aims to support local authority Leaving Care Teams to assist young people who have left care to access education, employment and training.
Careers for School Leavers - An update of helpful snapshot into the careers and learning opportunities with some of the UK's largest employers.
Aiming High for young people - Antony Hughes wrote to directors of children’s services to introduce non-statutory guidance for two important and related data collection exercises around NI 110 (young people's participation in positive activities). Click here to view documents.
Unemployment Statistics - Figures show youth unemployment has risen. When published, statistics showed that the number of 16-24 year olds out of work had reached 943,000.
Development of new qualifications for the career guidance sector - four new qualifications made up of units that can also be used for continuous professional development (CPD) purposes, have been proposed.
Careers Education and IAG policy: What schools need to do – Briefing paper explaining what the new strategy for IAG and published statutory guidance on the principles of impartial careers education mean for schools and PRUs.
National Apprenticeship Week will take place in February 2010 and celebrates talents and skills of apprentices. Anyone involved with Apprenticeships is invited to take part. Contact Kay Greene for more
information.
The Diploma Validator helps staff in centres to check quickly and easily that a Diploma learner is on a valid programme of study. Click here to view more information and the tool itself.
About the Diploma Employer Champions Network - To ensure that employers get a clear understanding of the Diploma, this network has been set up to encourage and support further long-term employer involvement.
Improving safety, reducing harm - Children, young people and domestic violence: A practical toolkit for front-line practitioners – This provides specific information about children, domestic violence and related issues.
Rights of passage: Supporting disabled young people through the transition to adulthood – Report from Nee Philanthropy Capital looks at how disabled teenagers can make a successful transition from childhood to adulthood.
Lengthening Ladders, Shortening Snakes- Embedding STEM Careers Awareness in Secondary Schools - CEI has published a report about the STEM careers awareness 'timeline' project.
Helping Learners to make choices about the Diploma in Retail Business – Leaflets for learners about the Retail diploma are available on the website.
Lessons from history: Increasing the number of 16 and 17 year olds in education and training – This report presents a review of historical projects aimed at increasing participation to explore lessons that can be learnt.
Skills for growth: The national skills strategy - This is a strategy to support economic growth and individual prosperity, opportunity and choice and it proposes new priorities or approaches in six key areas.
False starts: Restoring hope, dignity and opportunity to young people – Report by Reed, which examines the impact of the recession on young people in the UK.
Hidden Talents III: celebrating achievements; local solutions for engaging young people – This is a further
publication in the series Hidden Talents: re engaging young people. The LGA programme of work to look at solutions for engaging all young people aged 16-24 into positive activity.
FREE information session and campus tours - Connexions teams that would like to attend an information session, to find out more about the recent changes and developments at South Thames College and have a tour of the newly developed state-of-the-art Wandsworth Campus should contact Latoya Solomon.
Twelve outstanding special schools: Excelling through inclusion – Ofsted
Report which is intended as a discussion document for those who work with young people who have special educational needs.
The Characteristics of Bullying Victims in Schools - NatCen examined the characteristics of bullying victims in schools between ages 14-16. Topline findings of the report due to be released in 2010 can now be viewed.
Graduates are forced to pay for Internships or risk losing out to wealthier competitors. Job-hunting university leavers are being warned against paying for services to help get them internships. Read the full article.
Girls’ attitudes – Report includes results of a survey of the views and opinions of girls aged 7-21 by Girlguiding UK, looking at girls’ attitudes on five themes.