1. The State of Play: Employers, schools and the delivery of careers advice Professor Jenny Bimrose Dr. Deirdre Hughes Institute for Employment Research University of Warwick #SoP

2. Aim: To review recent key findings on employer engagement in schools & colleges, together with the role of the National Careers Service

3. Summarise Relevant policy context Explore Recent research findings Reflect On future implications

4. Education & Employers: Policy backdrop? Patch work masquerading as unified & coherent?

5. Education & Employers: Who says what? Statutory guidance Non-statutory guidance DfE Employers, Partnerships, Skills Colleges; Apprenticeships, Traineeships DBIS Ofsted; National Careers Council; Gatsby; UKCES; OECD; CEDEFOP Related

6. Europe 2020: Youth Guarantee Supporting young people’s transitions Youth Guarantee Implementation Plan (UK) ‘In preparation’ UK allocation: 192.54 million euros (with equivalent country match funding) Compare: Italy 530.18 million euros; Spain 881.44 million euros Reference: OECD (2014) Local Implementation of Youth Guarantees: Emerging Lessons from European Experiences, OECD & LEED, Available online: http://www.oecd.org/cfe/leed/Local- Implementation-Youth-Gurantees-draft.pdfhttp://www.oecd.org/cfe/leed/Local- Implementation-Youth-Gurantees-draft.pdf

7. Single focus: BIS research (2014)

8. Links between education & employers Focus on recent research study in England: ‘Understanding the link between employers and education and the role of the National Careers Service’ Warwick IER led partnership BIS – due for publication October, 2014….now December Data collected: January – July 2014

9. Developing the evidence base What?Conclusions?Implications?

10. What? Data collection Literature Review SurveysInterviews Case Studies

11. Schools & Colleges Surveys 78: 20 Interviews 12 Case studies 6

12. Employers/ Social Partners 301 telephone surveys 23 in- depth interviews

13. Stakeholder interviews  Association of Colleges (AoC)  Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL)  Barclays Lifeskills  British Chamber of Commerce  Business in the Community (BiTC)  Career Academies UK  Confederation of British Industry (CBI)  Education and Employers Taskforce  Engineering UK  Federation of Small Businesses  Local Enterprise Partnerships Network  Local Government Association (LGA)  Monster Jobs  National Grid  NHS Careers, Health Education, England  Nottingham Futures  Prospects Ltd  Plotr  RAF Careers Service  The Edge Foundation  Unionlearn, TUC

14. National Careers Services Out of 13 Prime Contractors Plus telephone & webchat helpline services Included 8 Prime Contractors Plus telephone & webchat helpline services

15. Education/ employer links Data analysis Synthesis Findings Implications

16. ConclusionImplication Successful employer engagement is based on long-lasting, mutually acceptable & beneficial relationships between education and businesses Whilst there exist a variety of links that bring significant benefit, these activities need to be incorporated within structures that allow for up-scaling and coherence Literature Review

17. Employers: conclusions & implications Large employers v SMEs Barriers

18. Schools: conclusions & implications YEAR GROUPS CONTACTS COHERENCE STRONG LEADERSHIP

19. Role of the National Careers Service Awareness Visibility Scope Services for young people under- utilised In need of improvement Partnerships and local impact

21. Labour market information (LMI) Finding:High quality, reliable LMI is in high demand from schools & colleges Implication: ‘LMI for All’ web portal provides an open source for what is required, but schools & colleges require support to exploit its potential

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23. For more information… Peter Glover, UKCES Peter.Glover@ukces.org.uk Jenny Bimrose, IER Jenny.Bimrose@warwick.ac.uk Deirdre Hughes, IER deirdre.hughes3@btinternet.com