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From Care2Work Creating Opportunities Raising Aspirations Barry Cullen

From Care2Work Creating Opportunities Raising Aspirations Barry Cullen Employability Projects Manager. Why From Care2Work?. From 2009 to Now. Local Authority Support. Helped to map employability support & services to care leavers

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From Care2Work Creating Opportunities Raising Aspirations Barry Cullen

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  1. From Care2Work Creating Opportunities Raising Aspirations Barry Cullen Employability Projects Manager

  2. Why From Care2Work?

  3. From 2009 to Now

  4. Local Authority Support • Helped to map employability support & services to care leavers • Developed work-plans to improve where necessary the employability offer to care leavers • Helped leaving care services engage with national and local employers • Provided training in-house to social care staff now responsible for employability support • Identified areas where local authorities could offer opportunities to care leavers as good corporate parents e.g. Apprenticeships/Work Experience • Highlighted and disseminated good practice from across England

  5. Good Practice Examples

  6. Engaging Employers • Exceeded target of 100 employers engaged through the programme • Ensured that there was a broad range of employers across different sectors in order to meet the needs of care leavers • Developed a flexible model which understood that employers and young people aren’t 1 size fits all • Tried to create opportunities that were aspirational and inspirational • We have encouraged care leavers to think “I Can Do This”

  7. Marriott Hotels – Home & Abroad • 23 Hotels in England support From Care2Work • Over 300 opportunities have been created for care leavers • Commitment to supporting the programme matches their “Spirit to Serve” in communities • Increasing numbers of care leavers now employed as Marriott Associates • 5 Hotels in Germany involved in the Willkommen programme • 11 care leavers learnt German, gained work experience in England before travelling out to Germany for work experience in Marriott Hotels • 6 of the participants now employed by Marriott in England

  8. Premier Partnerships • Premier League football clubs supporting care leavers • Tottenham Hotspur Foundation’s E18HTEEN programme • Arsenal in the Community’s Care Leavers Employability Programme • Chelsea FC supporting young people in Essex! • Stoke City developing a programme to work with Stoke care leavers • London’s top 3 clubs now partners to Catch22 NCAS, Goals2Work Programme funded by Comic Relief’s Sport for Change • Goals2Work will support 60 care leavers from London & Essex with football, employability and life skills training.

  9. Quality Mark • Demonstrate Commitment • Creating Opportunities • Providing strong Support • Ensuring effective Monitoring • http://leavingcare.org/?page_ID=100019

  10. Toolkit & Resources • Employers Handbook & Awareness Session • Career Planning Workbook • A Young Person’s Guide to Employment • Benefits Guide for young people & professionals • Employer Engagement & Work Experience Toolkits • http://leavingcare.org/what_we_do/ncas_projects/from_carework_project/resources_fcw • http://leavingcare.org/what_we_do/ncas_projects/from_carework_project/resources_fcw

  11. The Future??? • Delivering From Care2Work across England to 2015 • Catch22 AEI will ensure local opportunities for care leavers and a clear focus on apprenticeships • Working with LEPs and Chambers of Commerce to ensure strategic support and links to SMEs • Willkommen, Goals2Work, Children’s Home Project projects grown out of From Care2Work which make a real difference to care leavers

  12. Thank You Barry Cullen Employability Projects Manager Barry.Cullen@catch-22.org.uk Website - www.leavingcare.org Twitter - @NCAS_uk From Care2Work Mailing List http://leavingcare.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=5c9a0bfa9b06a75f21c1181f4&id=a68663cfed

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