Appendix 2 Islington Careers Clusters Pilot Project Jodi Pilling Learning and Skills Manager
London’s Careers Clusters Pilot Improving awareness of London’s labour market and supporting school and college leaders in a whole-school approach to plan and deliver careers provision Hackney South Rinova Ltd Community Thames 15 Billion College Accommodation & College NE London Food Creative Dig, Legacy Wandsworth Boroughs Reed in Reed in Prospects Prospects Partnership Partnership Bromley, Bexley, Havering Greenwich Interchange ICT Barnet, Enfield Redwood City and Lambeth Prospects Education & Islington Adult Skills Barnet, Brent College Learning Ealing
Islington council’s contractual outputs Cluster established (minimum of 6 schools) Production of full cluster training needs analysis Engagement with 18 Businesses/HEI's Businesses/HEI's completing 26 weeks engagement 720 Pupils participating in employer/HEI activity delivered through the pilots 150 Teachers supported in CPD 300 Pupils to be referred to Youth Talent programme for work 6 termly cluster meetings with the whole cluster and employers Employer endorsed careers guidance strategy for every school and college Production of final report and cluster sustainability plan
Unpaid outputs for the cluster Output Being delivered by Individual organisational TNA’s The Council Production and approval of a City and Islington – with Theory of Change model to support from partners quantify outcomes LMI data fit for school use City and Islington
Measures of success • Increase in the number of young people entering Sixth Form or College • Increase the number of young people entering university including ‘top universities’ • Increase the number of young people taking up an apprenticeship, traineeship or Internship • Increase in employers’ confidence in young people employability skills • Increase in teachers’ confidence of delivering careers support and knowledge of the labour market
What we have done so far�. • Theory of Change submitted • 21 businesses and 2 Higher Education Institutes engaged • The first cluster meeting held • 10 individual and one full cluster Training Needs Analysis completed • 3 Apprenticeship Awareness Assemblies’ delivered to around 300 pupils with Mears and the London Fire Brigade • 2 Present Yourself Days with support from a number of employers, including Mears and Breyer from the cluster • 10 teachers have received Initial Conversations with Students session. • 2 Apprenticeship CPD sessions to around 35 teachers
Plans for the future • Targeted sessions for students interested in specific apprenticeships • Employer led employability skills for students • Work experience placements • Undergraduate mentoring • ‘Employer Meet School’ • University tours in the process • Employer taster days with a view to introducing Saturday jobs in some cases • Theatre workshops to support students to ‘think on their feet’, teachers will be involved with a view to developing skills to deliver the workshops • Industrial placements for teachers are being sourced • Employers working with specific subject teachers on enriching the curriculum they teach
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