Working together to help young people achieve their potential

Our vision: to ensure that every school and college has an effective partnership with employers to provide its young people with the inspiration, motivation, knowledge, skills and opportunities they need to help them achieve their potential and so to secure the UK's future prosperity. Our Partnerships Board Senior representatives of the national organisations representing schools and colleges;...and employers ;

3 95% of young people would like employers to be more involved in providing advice and guidance about careers and jobs 42% of young people had no contact with employers at all Young people who had been in contact with 4 or more employers were nearly twice as likely to believe that they had a good idea of the knowledge and skills needed for the jobs they wanted to do Key findings It’s who you meet: why employer contacts at school make a difference to the employment prospects of young adults – Shows a significant link between young people’s experience of the world of work whilst at school and the chances of them becoming NEET 26.1% of young people who could recall no contact with employers whilst at school went on to become NEET This reduced significantly to 4.3% for those who had taken part in four or more activities involving employers

4 DFE Guidance (EET & ITF) Careers guidance and inspiration for young people in schools - statutory Careers guidance and inspiration for young people in schools - non-statutory Careers guidance and inspiration – general further education colleges & sixth-form colleges Evidence from the Education and Employers Taskforce shows that access to a network of employers is associated with better outcomes for young people. Employers can pass on the benefits of their experience to both pupils and teachers, helping to link curriculum subjects to employment and providing an overview of the different routes into careers. Education and Employers Taskforce – Supports effective partnership between schools, colleges and employers to inspire young people. Inspiring the Future – A free service across England with volunteers from all sectors and professions going into state secondary schools and colleges to talk about their jobs and sectors. Inspiring the Future – launched in July 2012 by the Education and Employers Taskforce, matches schools and colleges with inspiring employers who can give career insight talks. “Inviting working professional into schools to give students first-hand insights into the breadth of the jobs market and its recruitment demands is a great example of the sort of good practice Ofsted expects schools to include when providing young people with effective independent careers guidance.” Karen Adriaanse HMI, National Lead for Careers Guidance, Ofsted

 Inspiring the Future is a FREE service run by the charity the Education & Employers Taskforce  Employees from all sectors and professions from Apprentices to CEOs pledge one hour a year to volunteer to go into state schools and colleges to talk about their jobs, careers, and the education routes they took 5 What is Inspiring the Future?

We have signed up over 22,000 volunteers from 5,000 different organisations and our growth is steadily rising Over 8,200 teachers from more than 4,600 schools and colleges have already signed up, and we have recently launched our Primary Futures campaign to primary schools Over 84,000 invites have been sent from teachers to volunteers 7 School Teacher Cumulative Line GraphInvite/Message Cumulative Line Graph

8 Types of Events – Schools/Colleges use ITF for Careers Networking Careers FairTalk Subject talk Mock Interviews CV workshops

Go to Click then select 9 Registering as a teacher Enter the name of the state school/college and the postcode and it should appear Then follow the steps to complete your profile

10 Inspiring the Future – Find and search for volunteers in your area

Viewing potential matches

12 Viewing a Volunteers Full Profile ‘Volunteer Profiles’ – by clicking you can view a more detailed profile of the selected volunteer. If you would like to add them to the invite list simply click and they will be added to your volunteer bucket. If you do not want to add them simply click and continue your search.

13 After you have clicked you will be taken to the ‘Project Select’ screen. In this section you can either add volunteers to an existing project/event or create a new project. If this is your first time of using Inspiring the Future or you are an existing user using the new improved pages for the first time, you will need to select the tab ‘Create New Project’ tab below, then create a ‘Project Name’ and click Adding Volunteers to an existing Project/Event or creating a new one

14 Your Invite to selected Volunteers Add Total Hours & Number of Students In the ‘Total Hours’ box, add the number of hours the activity will last for. Remember, volunteers have committed to an hour. In the ‘Number of Students’ box, add the approximate number of students you think will be attending the event

15 Example of some of the Employers and Professional bodies signed up

16 Using the volunteers in the classroom Guides were developed by Education and Employers, in collaboration with TeachFirst and with classroom teachers who have first-hand experience of using volunteers to bring learning to life Download the guides for free at:

Volunteer Subject they could speak in How a teacher could use them Owner- LYCK Sweets Ltd Business Studies Speaking about Business ownership as part of a subject lesson Foreign and Commonwealth Office Diplomat MFL lesson Speaking about the value languages can have in a career 17 Activity Look at the volunteer list and come up with some 1-3 suggestions of how you would use some of the available volunteers in London in a classroom session in your school Look at their profile and think about a subject lesson that they could enrich by speaking to the students about their job and how it links to the subject E.G.

18 Campaigns

Inspiring the Future: Inspiring Women Campaign The Inspiring the Future: Inspiring Women campaigns has over 15,000 inspirational women who have pledged to go into schools, talking to girls to broaden their horizons and raise aspirations Follow the Inspiring Women blog:

20 "We need to give our children and young people a vision of the opportunities available to them, so that they understand the value of learning and in doing so raise aspirations. It is never too soon to start this. We also need better connections between schools and the communities and businesses they work with. Working with charity the Education and Employers Taskforce helps achieve both goals at once. We value working with other organisations on projects that give children the best start in life". Russell Hobby, NAHT General Secretary Inspiring the Future: Primary Futures Essentially this is a primary school project working under the banner of 'Inspiring the Future' to develop effective, innovative approaches which will allow schools to easily engage volunteers to work in schools with primary aged children and is run in partnership with the NAHT When teaching staff log on to the system, they get a list of all those people registered in their area and it’s a simple process to send a message through the system to get in touch When volunteers sign up, they are asked if they would mind being approached by local primary schools to talk about their current job and why reading and numeracy in their primary school days were so important in achieving their current status.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch Bank of America Merrill Lynch is the key strategic partner and lead corporate supporter of the Education and Employers’ Inspiring the Future campaign. Currently more than 1,000 employees from Bank of America Merrill Lynch are signed up to go into schools. Volunteers include lawyers, bankers, brokers, human resource professionals, IT consultants, marketing managers, catering managers, event coordinators amongst many other jobs Special help available to schools and colleges to run events using volunteers. Contact Rebecca Dodsworth if you are interested. Our visit to the Bank of America was incredibly inspiring. The children were able to link their learning in school to the world of work and to consider the skills needed for a range of professions by meeting professionals in the field. We are extremely grateful to Primary Futures and to the Bank of America Merrill Lynch for this opportunity to step inside their doors and show children what their learning could lead to in the future. Teacher at a Primary School in Islington

22 NHS Project NHS – Health Education England Partnering with Inspiring the Future The Education and Employers, the charity behind Inspiring the Future is working closely with Health Education England to broaden and raise young people’s awareness and understanding of NHS careers by working with schools and colleges across England. Over 2000 volunteers from the NHS will be signed up on Inspiring the Future by March 2015 to go into schools and colleges and speak to young people via in-school careers events or classroom sessions

23 The impact of Inspiring the Future We are really pleased to have found Inspiring the Future. We had amazing support from local industry who helped our students in improving their interview technique. The representatives who attended were approachable and did a fantastic job. Teacher at a Secondary School in Staffordshire It is an excellent way of connecting with professionals who are keen to help local students and each of these professionals has expressed an interest in helping at future events. For this event two volunteers attended and I use the website to recruit a similar number for each careers morning I run. Teacher at a Secondary School in Kingston Upon Thames The volunteer was incredibly nice and we wouldn't have been able to engage with a huge company like Mitie without the help of Inspiring the Future website. Teacher at an FE College in Bolton

Key Contacts For any queries please contact: 24 DepartmentNameJob Title AddressTelephone Number Schools TeamCharlotte Lightman Schools Liaison Manager Basit MahmoodPrimary – Schools Liaison Assistant General Enquiries