Careers Leaders Let's Talk - Cornwall & IoS Forum

To coincide with National Careers Week 2023, The Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC) has published ‘Ready for the Future: A review of Careers Education in England 21/22′ in March 2023 .

The report and press release are available on CEC’s website.

The report draws on data and insight from young people, schools and colleges and employers to set out the clearest picture of the careers education system to date. It analyses how much progress was made in the academic year 2021/22, what gaps remain and where we need to go next.

Key insights include:

• Survey of 35,000 young people shows 74% say they are career ready in Year 13, rising from 45% in Year 7.
• Awareness of apprenticeships doubles from 39% in Year 7 to 81% by Year 11.
• High quality careers education is helping to close the disadvantage gap, reducing NEET levels.
• Work experience has bounced back to pre-pandemic level, up from 47% to 65%.

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The much anticipated LMI factsheets are now live and on our website. There are three sections on the Benchmark 2 page; 'What is LMI', 'LMI Presentations and Resources' and 'Sources of LMI'. Check out the page for more information.

In the Documents section, you will find a useful spreadsheet containing a list of 159 organisations along with a link to the sector guides in there. You can download and start to populate your lists and do some targeted careers activities. You can also access it HERE.

If you have any comments on any of the pages or wish to make any suggestions please do below.

Young Enterprise Activities and fliers have been added to the document section on here. You will find them on the right hand side.

Internships Work is a new project which will enable 4500 young adults, aged 16-25 with additional needs, to benefit from a supported internship per year by 2025. Click here to find out more.

Our Local Authority reached an agreement with NDTI to roll out this project locally, aiming to grow and develop the existing offer. As a Careers Hub, we are proud to be involved in this project as we believe it will create life changing opportunities for some of our young people as well as helping local employers to find fantastic employees!

The Provider Access Legislation

There has been a slide deck created titled 'all you need to know' that we recommend you read. It covers:

1. Why does this matter?
2. What is the provider access legislation?
3. What makes an encounter count?
4. What happens if we don’t comply?
5. Where can I go for more support?

There are at a glance details for both colleges and schools which can be found on this page. There's a suite of resources to support you to meet the benchmarks which are hosted on this page. Don't forget the local ITPs which are within the Which Way Your Way provider directory. There is a Cornwall, Plymouth and Devon version of the directory.

Click Here to access a summary of the changes to BM7 section of reviews in Compass and Compass+.

Making it meaningful, what does this mean?

Key aspects (at a minimum) you need to consider for any encounter and to make it meaningful:

1. Information about the provider and the approved technical education qualifications or apprenticeships that the provider offers,
2. Information about the careers to which those technical education qualifications or apprenticeships might lead,
3. A description of what learning or training with the provider is like,
4. Responses to questions from the pupils about the provider or approved technical education qualifications and apprenticeships.

As ever contact us for more information and support we are here to help.

The Careers Hub website

A lot of work was done over the summer to support you with Benchmark 7. There is an FE section that provides an overview of the pathways students can take, there's information specifically for Higher Education and an Independent Training Providers sections. The Which Way Your Way booklet was sent to all schools and in there are all of the ITPs and their offer. Utilise the resources and information for your websites!

https://www.careershubcios.co.uk/schools-colleges/benchmark-7/

CIoS Digital Skills Partnership created a simple guide to inform educators and families about current and future tech work & careers opportunities within Cornwall. Click here to access

Interest in further diving into the local digital skills landscape? Check out this report!

Trudy Rudge has provided an offer to all CLs for a tour of ANY of the Cornwall College campus'. To arrange a time and date suitable for you please contact her.

They will provide transport, food, tour and hands-on activity for you.

Purpose: through experiencing it and seeing it for yourself you will have a greater insight to impart with your students.

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