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Guaranteeing pupils and parents high quality careers education and IAG: IAG strategy and statutory guidance on impartia

Guaranteeing pupils and parents high quality careers education and IAG: IAG strategy and statutory guidance on impartial careers education. Essex Secondary Headteachers Meeting Friday 18 June 2010 David Andrews. Changing context for careers work. Economic demand for skills new jobs

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  1. Guaranteeing pupils and parents high quality careers education and IAG: IAG strategy and statutory guidance on impartial careers education Essex Secondary Headteachers Meeting Friday 18 June 2010 David Andrews

  2. Changing context for careers work • Economic • demand for skills • new jobs • recession • Social • NEET • barriers to progression • Learning • raising of participation age to 17 (2013), then to 18 (2015) • 14-19 reforms

  3. IAG and careers education for 14-19: young people’s needs • Information • on post-14 (KS4) options, post-16 options, post-17 and post-18 options • on progression routes • comprehensive, up to date, accessible • Guidance • linked to tutoring and mentoring • effective recording and referral • impartial(based on the needs of the learner, not the institution) • Careers education • how to use information and guidance

  4. IAG for transition On-line prospectus www.stepon.org ↓ individual learning plan ↓ Common Application Process

  5. Careers education Choice • Review personal strengths, interests and areas to develop • Understand influences on career plans • Know about world of work • Research options in learning and work • Make decisions and plans • Know how to find and use sources of help and support Transition • Present self in writing and in interviews • Prepare for change

  6. Components of CEIAG • information about opportunities in learning and work • advice and guidance, linked to assistance with recording achievement, reviewing progress and individual learning planning • a planned programme of careers education • experience of work IAG extends beyond careers IAG, but includes careers guidance

  7. The partnership approach Schools, colleges, work-based training providers • careers information • careers education • initial advice and guidance, and referrals to external service Connexions • careers guidance • support for careers information • support for careers education“Local authorities should make sure that IAG providers ….. assist learning providers to develop their programme of CEIAG and provide opportunities for workforce development” DCSF Statutory Guidance for LAs

  8. Youth Matters (2006) • End-to-end review (DfES, 2004) – findings included concerns about attention given to careers guidance in Connexions and to careers education in schools and colleges • devolved responsibility for IAG from 47 Connexions partnerships to 150 local authorities, from April 2008 • gave schools and colleges power to ‘opt out’ of LA-commissioned arrangements and to commission own IAG service

  9. Quality Standards forYoung People’s IAG • To support development of consistently high quality and impartial IAG • Define expectations of services that local authorities will commission and manage • For use by • learning providers (schools, colleges,work-based training providers) • external IAG providers • users of IAG (young people and their parents/carers)

  10. Issues for careers education Curriculum models for careers education“Provision of careers education ranged from a good, comprehensive programme, cross-referenced to the new quality standards .…. to an unsatisfactory and informal series of lessons and presentations from visiting speakers. In four of the schools visited such presentations coincided with other activities and it was left to students to decide whether or not to attend” (Moving through the system, Ofsted 2010) Careers education post-16, in school sixth forms, colleges and work-based training Links with personal finance education(e.g. EMA, tuition fees, grants and loans)

  11. Education and Skills Act 2008 • Raising participation age • LA must have regard to the Quality Standards for Young People’s IAG • Schools must be impartial when providing careers information and careers education

  12. Fair Access to the Professions (Alan Milburn report) • Critical of Connexions and calls for a radical re-think • Connexions should be broken up, leaving a residual specialist service free to focus on young people who are NEET • Recommendation 22Schools and colleges should have direct responsibility for providing IAG, with a professional careers service located in every school and college – starting in primary • Recommendation 23The Government should remove careers responsibility from Connexions and relocate an estimated £200million to schools and colleges to give them the freedom to tender for careers services from a range of providers

  13. Quality, Choice and Aspiration (1) • review the quality and effectiveness of LAs’ IAG services in 2011 • [Pupil Guarantee*] • all pupils in Years 7 to 11 have access to high quality careers education and information, advice and guidance so they can make informed choices about learning, work and lifestyles and are well supported during transitions (3.6) • that every pupil receives personal, social, health and economic education (5.2) • [Parent Guarantee*] • parents get high quality information and advice on the career and subject choices open to their child (6.11) • ambition to extend the statutory duty for careers education up to age 18 * dropped from Children, Schools and Families Bill

  14. Quality, Choice and Aspiration (2) • explore, with schools and HEIs, new qualifications for careers coordinators • Task Force on the Careers Profession • pilots of career-related learning in KS2 • £10m Youth Sector Development Fund • support for mentoring • develop a new vision for work experience • support for school-HE links • new statutory guidance for local authorities

  15. Statutory Guidance: Impartial Careers Education • checklist of 12 points for headteachers to consider • Six Principles of impartial careers education • Key Information on 14-19 options and learning routes • links to new Ofsted framework for inspection

  16. The 6 Principles

  17. Principle 1 • Empowers young people to plan and manage their own futuresSchools will meet this principle if young people: • are able to investigate opportunities for learning and work on their own • are able to interpret information and to identify partiality and bias • make challenging but realistic plans for their future learning and work • recognise barriers to the achievement of their plans and understand how these can be overcome • are able to review and adapt their plans in the light of changing personal, education, social and economic circumstances • feed back that they have the skills that they need to plan and manage their careers.

  18. Key Information Questions on: • Apprenticeships • Diplomas • Foundation Learning • GCSEs/A levels • part time learning or training • Higher Education • current ‘stand-alone’ qualifications

  19. Checklist for headteachers (1-6) • review how careers education is delivered with reference to the Principles and Key Information • appoint a senior leader for careers education and IAG • support the senior leader to fulfil their role • ensure the middle leader has the skills, knowledge and time for the job • ensure all staff have relevant CPD • provide parents and carers with information about the support available

  20. Checklist for headteachers (7-12) • encourage use of work-related contexts • place more emphasis on experiential learning and exploit synergies with other elements of economic wellbeing and financial capability • appoint a lead for the 14-19 prospectus and CAP • promote equality of opportunity • ensure support for the September Guarantee • conduct regular reviews of careers education provision, and involve governors

  21. Resources Pack • briefing note for governors • briefing note for careers co-ordinator • briefing note for staff • revised framework for careers education 7-19 • Ways & Choices classroom materials • Fact Cards for key information • DVDs for pupils and parents • diagnostic tool for headteachers • audit tool for careers co-ordinators • pupil and parent survey questionnaires • model partnership agreement

  22. National College publications for school senior leaders • Impartial careers education: research report and case studies www.nationalcollege.org.uk/index/about-us/publications-atoz.htm

  23. IAG and school inspections The extent to which pupils develop workplace and other skills that contribute to their future economic well-being • pupils develop knowledge and understanding of the world of work • pupils understand their future options, develop aspirations and understand how to achieve them The effectiveness of care, guidance and support • quality and accessibility of information, advice and guidance

  24. Assuring quality • Local quality awards (e.g. RoQA)Have learning providers got the right things in place? • Quality Standards for Young People’s IAG(DCSF, October 2007)Are we doing the right things and working together?audits of 14-19 consortia against the Quality Standards, undertaken by igen • ‘Principles’ of Impartial Careers Education(DCSF 2009)Are learners gaining the right knowledge and skills?Audit tool for careers coordinators

  25. Leading and managing IAG and careers education • Manager of information and of advice and guidance • Subject leader for careers education

  26. Leading and managing IAG and careers education in schools • Advising SLG on policy, priorities and resources • Managing careers and related information • Planning careers education • Training of teachers and tutors • Monitoring teaching and learning in careers education • Liaising with tutorial managers and mentors • Referring to PAs • Liaising with external agencies • Reviewing and evaluating IAG and careers education, preparing development plan • Reporting to SLG and governors • Managing work of support assistant • Maintaining own CPD

  27. Professional development for IAG and careers education • Training for ‘Careers Leader’ • IAG and careers education • curriculum leadership and management • Training of tutors providing IAG • knowledge and understanding of opportunities and progression routes • information and advice skills • school-based, or consortium-based • Training for teachers of careers education“Not all the staff teaching [careers education] had enough knowledge or experience to do this effectively. Some of the staff had been asked to teach careers education simply because time was available on their timetables …..” (Ofsted 2010) • Information briefings for all staff • 14-19 options, qualifications and progression routes • local provision

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