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The Kent model of career education and guidance An innovative local response to national policy

Skills and Employability Service Briefing on Schools’ and Colleges’ Responsibilities for Independent and Impartial Careers Guidance 29th April 2014 at the Mercure Hotel, Hollingbourne. The Kent model of career education and guidance An innovative local response to national policy.

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The Kent model of career education and guidance An innovative local response to national policy

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  1. Skills and Employability ServiceBriefing on Schools’ and Colleges’ Responsibilities for Independent and Impartial Careers Guidance 29th April 2014 at the Mercure Hotel, Hollingbourne

  2. The Kent model of career education and guidanceAn innovative local response to national policy Tristram Hooley (Reader in Career Development) www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

  3. Remember this? Hooley, T. (2012) Progression in Kent: Schools taking charge. Maidstone: Kent Country Council http://derby.openrepository.com/derby/handle/10545/243596 www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

  4. What we’ve been doing • Going back to the 10 case studies in Progression in Kent • Survey of 33 schools • Analysis of recent policy and research in the area. New publication planned for May 2014. www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

  5. What the Government think the problem is… “You've got to get out there and find people, win them over, get them to raise aspirations, get them to think they can get all the way to the top. " David Cameron www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

  6. …erm… but… • closure of Aimhigher • cuts to the WP budget • closure of Connexions as a national service • loss of funding for Education Business Partnerships • loss of the statutory duty for work-related learning • loss of the statutory duty for career education • poorly framed and much criticised new duty for career guidance www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

  7. So what has happened? • A postcode lottery. • Some good, some bad, some indifferent provision. • A lot of reports criticising government policy. • But… • Good practice is persuasive • You can’t keep a good idea down! • Nature abhors a vacuum. • There is still policy and debate in this area. http://derby.openrepository.com/derby/handle/10545/311423 www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

  8. Cutting out the middle man ‘For young people reflecting on which career path to follow no information is as valuable, no inspiration so powerful as the testimony of those at the front line of business. That is why the new careers guidance produced by my colleague Matt Hancock is all about cutting out the middle man and getting inspirational speakers in front of students to spark their ambitions. Students can’t aspire to lives they’ve never known. So we need business people to visit schools, engage and inspire.’ www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

  9. New statutory guidance • Schools should help every pupil to develop high aspirations and consider a broad and ambitious range of careers. • Schools have a duty to secure independent career guidance for all year 8-13 pupils. • Guidance should be impartial. • Guidance should also be embedded in a clear framework. • Build strong links with employers and other stakeholders from the world of work and post-secondary learning. • Access to a range of activities and career informants. • A website is not enough. • Schools should work with local authorities. • Schools’ can measure their effectiveness in this area both through Ofsted inspections and through the destinations of their pupils. www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

  10. What is wrong with the statutory guidance • Loose • Weak on career education • Where are the careers professionals? • Ignores existing quality assurance • Poor accountability But • It doesn’t stop you from doing anything! www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

  11. Employers are not the whole picture “If employer contributions are to be effective, they require logistical support, curriculum space, and receptive schools and young people. They also need to be an integral part of properly planned, delivered and reviewed careers education and guidance programmes run by schools.” Careers Sector Stakeholder Alliance www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

  12. Designing school based careers programmes Career development is a learning activity which requires the acquisition of new skills, knowledge and meta-cognitive skills. There are lots of activities that schools can do to support career development. But, it is most effective if you move away from activities and design progressive programmes. Such programmes need to link to the curriculum and students wider experience in meaningful ways. http://derby.openrepository.com/derby/handle/10545/251032 www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

  13. The Kent careers system www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

  14. The Kent model of career education and guidance www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

  15. Themes in delivery • Tracking and data management • Addressing the full-range of post-school options • Employers and work-experience • Use of new technologies • Collaboration www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

  16. In conclusion • The new system has been strongly supported by a well-developed and strategic infrastructure that exists in the county. • The enabling framework developed by Kent County Council has allowed careers work to thrive. • Key to this has been the counties CEIAG Network which has allowed practice to be shared and a common model to emerge. • Consequently many schools in Kent have evolved a similar model of school-based careers provision. • The model is strongly embedded in the ethos of the schools, appropriately resourced and highly flexible. www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

  17. Useful links • Career Development Institute http://www.thecdi.net/ • International Centre for Guidance Studies http://www.derby.ac.uk/icegs • Investors in Careers http://www.investorincareers.org.uk/ • Kent CEIAG Framework is available https://shareweb.kent.gov.uk/Documents/KELSI/Curriculum%20and%20pupil%20learning/Skills%20and%20employability/CEIAG%20Framework.doc. • Kent Choices http://www.kent.gov.uk/education-and-children/college-sixth-form-and-training • Kent Education Learning and Skills Information (KELSI) http://www.kelsi.org.uk/ • Kent Integrated Adolescent Support Service (KIASS) http://www.kelsi.org.uk/pupil_support_and_wellbeing/targeted_support/inclusion/kiass.aspx • Kent and Medway Progression Federation http://kmpf.org/ • Kent Training and Apprenticeships http://www.kenttrainingandapprenticeships.co.uk/ www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

  18. Tristram Hooley Reader in Career Development International Centre for Guidance Studies University of Derby http://www.derby.ac.uk/icegs t.hooley@derby.ac.uk @pigironjoe Blog at http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.wordpress.com www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

  19. Skills and Employability ServiceBriefing on Schools’ and Colleges’ Responsibilities for Independent and Impartial Careers Guidance 29th April 2014 at the Mercure Hotel, Hollingbourne

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