Achieving Excellence IAG Conference for PAs and IYSS staff working in central London, will take place on Monday 22nd March 2010. The event will be looking at the new national IAG strategy 'Quality, Choice and Aspiration' and its potential impact on young people's lives and give you the opportunities to share best practice, hear about the Achieving Excellence project and to plan how we move forward with this strategy. If you are interested please contact your Manager.
Year 12 information booklet, will be in Schools and Colleges and Connexions centres in the next couple of weeks.
Education Maintenace Allowance (EMA) - All FE learners in year 11 should have obtained a 2009/10 Application Pack from their school before completing their compulsory education. Download the Application Form Resource Pack.
The Activity Agreement Pilot (AAP) has been extended for another year until 31st March 2011. Due to its significant success with working with hard to reach NEET young people and its links with the national DCSF Raising Participation Age agenda where it will be a statutory requirement for young people to remain in learning up to the age of 17 in 2011 and 18 in 2013. For further information on the AAP please contact Bally Sappal, AAP Pilot Manager or call 0207 938 8089.
New plans for the Connexions Direct service for April 2010. One of the new initiatives is mid-call transfers from Connexions Direct to local Connexions centres. Please see the briefing document for more information.
CEIAG is being reviewed to identify the impact of policy and practice on young people’s post 16 destinations and career choices across the equality strands. If you would like to be involved please email j.hutchinson@derby.ac.uk or call 01332 591267.
Public Consultation on the Introduction of the Pupil and Parent Guarantees - This consultation sets out the full text of the Guarantees and seeks views on whether the requirements are clear and understandable, and the responsibilities and entitlements for schools, pupils and parents are correctly balanced.
Apprenticeship literature for Employers - Watch out for the Apprenticeship employer focussed literature that is beening produced in the form of a leaflet and a factsheet and will be available soon. This is to inform employers of the Apprenticeship and Connexions services available to them.
The types of childcare eligible for Care to Learn have changed. From September 2010, Care to Learn will also be accessible to young parents using childcare providers on the voluntary part of the Ofsted General Childcare Register.
Functional Skills Factsheet for young people - The
factsheet will enable you to see how functional skills fit into their lives. Hard copies can also be ordered by calling
0845 6022260 and quoting reference number 00171-2010FLY-EN.
The QCG bursary is now closed all new applicants and students enrolling for the academic year 2010-2011 will not be able to access this source of funding due to ministers taking the decision to end the funding. Read the full article.
All together, a better way of working – CWDC is promoting a range of tools to help everyone involved with children and young people to work better together.
Apprenticeship Resource Pack – Included within the FREE Resource Pack is a Delivery Plan and PowerPoint presentation. They have both been developed to be used to support delivery of Information Advice and Guidance (IAG).
Unison calls on government to properly fund Connexions – The head of public sector union, Unison has called on the government to properly fund the Connexions service and provide more apprenticeships for the under-25s.
Information for Parents
Parental Opinion Survey 2009 – Report detailing the opinions of parents on a range of issues, focusing on their role as parents, their confidence as parents and their views about the services that they or their children use.
Campaign launched to promote extended services to parents - Parents are being targeted in a government campaign to increase the uptake of extended services in schools.
Extended schools and services - Extended schools provide a range of services outside of school hours for primary and secondary school age children, their families and the local community. Find out more.