Careers Education, Information, Advice & Guidance Where are we now! 11 May Sarah Collison

Presentation content  Overview of the IAG Landscape - The National Careers Service - Connexions / New Arrangements for schools and Local Authorities - New National Register for Careers Professionals  Quality - Ofsted - Matrix - Investors in Careers IiC

CEIAG Coalition themes: Social mobility, labour market information/skills, raising participation age. Professionalism, impartiality and quality frameworks. All within reduced guidance and budgets Things to note for CEIAG:  New CEIAG duties, new framework, new quality marks, new KS4 and 5 ‘progression measures’, professionalising workforce (new register of guidance practitioners level 6 qualified)  New ‘National Careers Service’. Single point of access for all adults and young people:  Organisations within the National Careers Service will be required to hold a new quality standard  New school framework - Jan 2012 implementation  FE/WBL framework update – announcements made on Ofsted website summer 2012 for implementation September 2012

Website, helpline and face-to-face for adults Telephone : between 8am -10pm 7 days a week

The National Careers Service  Launched April 2012  Online and helpline service available for young people and adults  Redesigned website – making information about careers more accessible  High quality advice and guidance to adults in a range of community locations

Making the transition  Building on the best of Next Step and Connexions  A focus on professional independent guidance  Underpinned by empirical up to date Labour Market Information  A requirement to be accredited to matrix by April 2013 – visible national quality standard

Making the transition  Introduction of the new brand from April 2012  Youth Contract – guarantee of a careers interview for year old jobseekers  Lifelong Learning Accounts  Transition of Careers Information, Advice Service (CIAS) in custody from August 2012

Making the transition  Working in partnership with key stakeholders  Co-located with Jobcentres, FE colleges and community centres, providing a triage service for the community  A focus on achieving positive outcomes for customers  National Marketing and awareness raising

Matrix  Required for National Careers Service  Young people, schools etc will know if their IAG service meets recognised professional standards  NB – new register of advisers holding CEIAG postgraduate qualifications being established  Emqc – providers of matrix

The New National Register for Career Professionals  Launched in May 2012  Mission to create a more unified sector where all types of practitioners – guidance specialists, careers educators, coaches, counsellors and others become part of an integrated approach – and raise professional standards.  Registration is voluntary and open to those with an approved career development qualification at QCF Level 6 or above

Youth unemployment  Riots - 5 issues for education providers:  Attainment  Attendance  Alternative provision  Address NEET early (RONIs)  Pupils to be work ready  …’Hope and dreams…it starts with schools’

‘After the Riots’  ‘It is not clear what support young people below 16 who are at risk of becoming NEET will receive…It is also not clear how schools will be assessed on the careers advice and support they offer to their pupils…The Panel expects the Ofsted thematic review of careers guidance to be important here’.  ‘In our Neighbourhood Survey, only 43% of residents feel schools adequately prepare young people for work’.

Youth Contract  Job subsidies for businesses to take on an year old as part of the work programme  Offer of work experience for every year old before they enter the work programme  Incentives for employers to take on apprentices  year old NEET special support Supports LA legal duty to young people up to 19/25 SEN

CEIAG – developments  New publications: Ofsted school framework (Ofsted) (FE due Sept 2012) has LSIS good practice documents which are useful. Statutory guidance for careers guidance (DfE) National career and work related education framework (ACEG)  What are the key drivers on CEIAG now? Youth unemployment RPA Destination measures Professional standards Quality awards

Education Act November 2011 New duty (Sept 2012):  Schools to secure independent careers guidance for all in year 9-11 (extended to yr 8 and up to yr 13 and colleges?) Other changes:  Removal of duty to provide careers education years 7-11 BUT Secretary of State still expects careers education to be delivered in English schools  Removal of duty to provide careers advisers with access to and information on students BUT ministers expect these arrangements to be agreed as part of the school/careers guidance provider contract  Removal of duty on schools to provide careers information BUT this is an integrated part of the new duty above.  Data collection/publication of school and college leavers activities (destinations) NB: new progression/ ‘destination’ measure

based on S Goddard slides, summer 2011 The Education Act: Independent careers guidance is defined as: Impartial Information on all options available in phase of education or training including apprenticeships Promotes the best interests of pupils Provided by people other than those employed at a school ‘ There is a demand for more and better careers guidance’ (DfE 11-11)

Ofsted Key Judgement Guidance criteria  Quality of Leadership and Management: Ensuring the curriculum promotes successful progression to the pupils’ next stage of education, training or employment  Strategies and procedures, including the provision of appropriate guidance, to help pupils prepare for life in modern, democratic Britain and a global society  Working in partnership with other schools, external agencies and the community, including business… Overall effectiveness:  The extent to which the education provided by the school meets the needs of the range of pupils at the school…taking into account the progression and destination of pupils when they leave school. How well the students have gained:  A well-informed understanding of the options and challenges facing them as they move through the school and on to next stage of their education and training  Develop the skills and attitudes to enable them to participate fully and positively in democratic, modern Britain

based on S Goddard slides, summer 2011 Destination measures at Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5 (first published 2012 using ’11 data) KS4 and KS5 Destination Measures are being developed to look at the success of schools in helping their pupils to progress on to positive post-16 destinations. This is to help: Provide clear information to parents and young people about the post-16 routes taken by former learners. Make schools and post-16 providers accountable for ensuring that: all their pupils take qualifications that offer them the best opportunity to progress receive the support needed to prepare for and complete that transition. Support the increased focus on disadvantaged pupils to ensure that they make a successful transition, helping to raise post-16 participation and reduce NEET. “For both primary and secondary schools, we will put greater emphasis on the progress of every child – setting out more prominently in performance tables how well pupils progress…We will introduce a measure of how young people do when they leave school.” The Importance of Teaching, 2010

based on S Goddard slides, summer 2011 What the measures might look like: Key Stage 4: School A had 90 per cent of pupils who progressed to a positive destination within one year of ending Key Stage 4. Of these pupils: 50 per cent entered further education in School Sixth Form 20 per cent entered further education in Further Education College 10 per cent entered work-based learning or an Apprenticeship 10 per cent entered employment Key Stage 5: College B had 70 per cent of students who progressed to a positive destination within one year of their learning. Of these pupils: 40 per cent entered higher education at University (5 per cent of these students went to Oxford or Cambridge University) 20 per cent continued in further education. 10 per cent entered employment Subject to data testing, the KS4 and 5 destination measure will be published alongside the KS 4 and 5 Performance Tables.

Demonstrating quality  Helps ensure best progression and retention  all quality awards are going to have their own quality standards to meet – the Quality in Careers Standard (QiCS)

IiC criteria includes:  CEIAG policy  CEIAG entitlement statement (forthcoming Careers Guarantee?)  Programme  Employer/other provider contact  Partnership agreement with external careers provider  Evaluation and review systems  Staff training

FE College: What makes it particularly effective?  Careers education embedded into curriculum/tutorial programmes (mapping to national framework identified any gaps). Established a tutorial scheme of work for students. Dedicated personal tutor team, headed by Tutor and Achievement Manager. All trained in CEIAG  All students have ILP on Moodle.  Used the college Curriculum Excellence Team to produce departmental agreements re CEIAG provision. Co-ordinated planning at senior level  Student Services staff trained to NVQ3 Advice and Guidance and work with external Level 6 careers adviser  Student voice is an important part of review and development, e.g. Student Union, learner surveys

Quality in Careers Standard  Provides national validation for CEIAG quality awards ensuring they meet robust national standards  CEIAG quality awards for schools, colleges and WBL providers

CEIAG quality awards ‘Highly valued and demonstrate to parents and young people they are being offered good quality support‘ ( BIS, April 2012)

What next?  Schools should be preparing for new duty to secure access to independent careers guidance now (also to meet Statutory Guidance)  Ofsted thematic review of careers guidance to report summer 2013  Check Ofsted requirements re CEIAG  Use new national career and work-related education framework (by ACEG)  Produce a Careers Support Guarantee – what a child can expect in terms of advice, guidance, contact with businesses and work experience  Quality award – still on the Government agenda. QICS, PSHE review, Ofsted review, BIS paper

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