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LCR Careers Hub and CEIAG
Andrew Frith (LCR CA)
&
Gill Ditchburn (Sefton EBP)
Background
• As outlined in the City Region’s Devolution Agreement, a key priority for the City Region is to secure greater cohesion and better alignment with growth opportunities to careers education and advisory services
• Key Outcome of the Area Based Review
• Partners across the City Region have historically and consistently recognised the positive impact that high-quality and coordinated services in this area can have on the learning and skills choices and employment outcomes of individuals.
• A LCR Careers Hub is seen as a key strategic driver for change/ improvement
Careers Hub Background
It is the intention that the Hub’s focus will be:-
• To lead on ensuring that there is better co-ordination of careers
education and information, advice and guidance across the City
Region;
• To work with partners and service deliverers to minimise duplication,
support effective delivery and maximise resources ;
• To help ensure that individuals are provided with clear learning and
skills/ employment pathways - including promoting the ‘Inspiration
Agenda’ and individuals’ ambitions;
• A more relevant and coherent offer and one which incorporates the
current and future employment opportunities afforded by the growth
and priority sectors; and
Careers Hub•Co-ordination•Avoiding Duplication•Clear Pathways•Coherent Offer•Maximising both the level and use of resources
Careers and Enterprise Company
Schools
Jobs for Tomorrow/YEG
FE Colleges & Private Providers
Find a Future/ World Skills
Voluntary Community
Sector/Talent Match
National Careers Service
•Web and face-to-face
•Inspiration Co-ordinator
ESFA•Traineeships/Apprenticeship
Contract
Universities(including Shaping Futures; World of
Work)
Apprenticeship Hub and Business
Growth Hub
Scope•14 – 19•NEET•Sector Pathways•19+ Prework
DWP/ Jobcentre Plus
Welfare to Work providers
Councils
‘The starting Landscape’
Careers Hub
• Tightly focused strategic group to lead the co-ordination of careers provision and materials in Liverpool City Region
• Channel and funnel
• Support and influence National Programmes locally delivered (e.g. National Careers Service)
• Support and influence investment funds held by national organisations such as the Careers and Enterprise Company in order to meet LCR priorities
• Operationally focussed workshops to supplement Careers Hub meetings
Current Careers Hub
MembershipName Local Accountability / Networks
Rob Tabb (Chair) LCR Combined Authority- Employment and Skills Team
Leeann Bellfield Merseyside Colleges Association
Elaine McCausland Community Learning Providers
Janine Peterson DWP/ JCP
Paul Smith Chair of LCR PaSS (14-19) Group
Carol Jamieson National Careers Service
Clare Hutchinson Careers and Enterprise Company
Debbie Tagoe Greater Merseyside Learning Providers Federation
Tbc: 1 x Local Schools
representative tbc
Associations of Secondary Heads
Dr Peter Hawkins Windmills
Lisa Ashby-Dowling Employer Brokerage
Andrew Frith LCR Combined Authority- Employment and Skills Team (lead Officer
support)
Andy Devaney Employers/ Sector Boards (LEP)
Terry Dray
Steve Plant
Higher Education Institutions Careers Departments
Siobhan Saunders Apprenticeships
Informing our work and setting
direction: National Careers Strategy
Published 4 December 2017 “Making the most of
everyone’s skills and talents”.
Key themes:-
• Inspiring encounters with further and higher
education, and with employers and workplaces
• Excellent advice and guidance programmes
• Support and guidance tailored to individual needs
• Using data and technology to help everyone make
choices about careers
Informing our work and setting
direction: National Careers Service
(NCS)
• Careers Hub and local partners are supporting both the
delivery of the current National Careers Service in our
area and informing the planning and design of the new
National Careers Service to be operational from October
2018
• Service will provide telephone, web, and a locally
based LCR face-to-face support service for those
young people and adults aged19 and over- with a
focus on those with low or no qualifications, single
parents, individuals with special educational needs or
disabilities and those adults who are unemployed aged
over 50 or who face significant risk of redundancy.
Informing our work and setting
direction: Careers and Enterprise
Company
Enhanced role outlined in the Skills Strategy, including:• A broader role across all the Gatsby Benchmarks from September
2018.
• Careers strategy supports the idea of local delivery through a focus
on careers ‘hubs’ (schools focus); prospectus issued April 18
• Careers Leaders: £4M to fund training for Careers Leaders in at
least 500 schools and colleges- CEC will lead the process
(prospectus in April 18)
• All schools and colleges are also to have access to an Enterprise
Adviser by the end of 2020.
• Investment Fund. £5M fund for disadvantaged young people -CEC
will run the process to allocate this funding (prospectus no later than
September 2018)
Key local Strategic Initiatives
• Employer Skills Survey (1,856 employers participated)
• Skills Strategy
• LCR Skills Commission
• Area Based Review Implementation
• Apprenticeship Growth Plan
• Skills for Growth Agreements
Informing our work- Local Context: Metro
Mayoral Priority
“ In a rapidly changing global economy, young people
need the best available information and support when
thinking about their further education and employment
options. We will develop and introduce a new Independent
Careers Service to help young people to make impartial
and informed decisions about their future work- life options”
Steve Rotheram 2017 (Our Future Together- Metro
Mayor Manifesto)
Ambitious and raising aspiration
Current position and activity
summary 1
• CEIAG planning workshop- Feb 2017- resulting in100
potential actions/ themes to consider!
• First meeting of Careers Hub held on 27th July 2017
• FE sector briefing held on 20th July 2017
• Second full meeting held 3rd October 2017-
December meeting postponed to allow reflection on
National Careers Strategy
• Gatsby Benchmarks, Sector LMI, and Enhanced
Careers Materials identified as key strategic actions
Discussions had been held with the Careers and Enterprise Company and the
Gatsby Foundation to identify how potential actions and ways of working can
strengthen CEIAG delivery across the LCR. New Careers Strategy directs CEC
to focus on all 8 benchmarks. 2016/17 CEC “State of the Nation” report
indicated that only half of schools achieve 2 or more benchmarks; 20% achieve
none.
Activity summary 2: CEC &
Gatsby Benchmarks
Activity summary 3: Sector LMI,
Careers Materials & Promoting Choice • Updated Health and Care, and Construction SFG agreements to be
finalised next month
• Health Skills Show- held November- including launching the updated Health and Care Skills for Growth Agreement for a final consultation- ends 5pm on Friday 26th January
• Other SFG agreements and sector specific careers materials to be developed in the months ahead (design company appointed via OCT and other SFG agreements in development will be via OCT)
• Innovative CEIAG ‘ican’ resource in development and has been shared for consultation at the October Careers Hub meeting and also the December Skills Commission meeting- delivery plan now in development
• Wider career options through apprenticeships promoted to young people and employers by the Apprenticeship Hub co-ordinators.
(all supported via ESF Employees support in skills programme)
Next Steps- and becoming
involved
• Careers Hub to discuss work plan in light of Careers Strategy publication and agree further priority actions- including securing greater input from schools
• Careers and Enterprise Company CEO and officers to meet with Metro Mayor to identify how best to ensure that CEC investment addresses LCR priorities
• Influencing SFG and CEIAG Materials development and using LMI gained from the Employer Skills Survey and Employer Engagement
• Finalise and launch LCR CEIAG ‘ican’ resource
• Influence future investment and performance
• Support the Skills Commission’s CEIAG Key Lines of Enquiry
• Ensuring key outcomes of the Skills Strategy are secured through the strategy’s implementation phase
Contact: [email protected] ; telephone 0151- 330 1258
Liverpool City Region Enterprise Adviser Network
Gill Ditchburn
Partnership Manager
Contact: [email protected]
0151- 330 5750
Liverpool City Region Enterprise Adviser Network
• Liverpool City Region Enterprise Adviser Network (EAN)- set up
and roles
• Engagement levels with schools, colleges and businesses
• Careers Strategy and use of Careers benchmarking tools
• How EAN complements delivery programmes/ funded activities
• How GMLPF members can support and benefit from the network