Preparing for Success All-age Careers Strategy Northern Ireland

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Preparing for Success All-age Careers
StrategyNorthern Ireland

• Presented by Judith Shaw
• Head of Careers Policy and Strategy

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Northern Ireland Context - Employment

• Population 1.8m
• Small business economy
• Public sector employment 30
• Employment rate 66.1
• Unemployment 7
• Inactivity rate 28.8

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Education - School Leavers 2008/09

• Qualifications
• 50.6 2 A levels or equivalent
• 70.1 5 GCSEs at grades A - C or equivalent
• 2.9 no GCSEs
• Destination
• 42.9 Higher Education
• 32.4 Further Education
• 12.7 Training
• 6.7 Employment
• 5.2 unemployed or unknown

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Careers Service NI

• Allage - Careers Policy Operations
• Total staff - 169
• 105 qualified careers advisers
• 27 locations
• Website www.careersserviceni.com
• Partnership with schools, colleges, training
  suppliers, statutory and voluntary organisations
• 270 post-primary schools careers teachers
• Budget 5.8m

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Preparing for Success

• January 2009
• Joint DE/DEL Careers, Education, Information,
• Advice and Guidance Strategy and
• Implementation Plan launched by DE and DEL
• Ministers

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Context

• Programme for Government
• Skills Strategy
• Revised Curriculum and the Entitlement Framework

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Vision

• Young people and adults will develop the skills
  and confidence to make the most of their life
  choices and follow the career path which suits
  them best.

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Aim

• To develop effective career decision makers
  leading to increased and appropriate
  participation in education, training and
  employment.

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5 Key Themes

• Improving Careers Education
• Improving Access to Careers Information
• Improving the provision of Careers Advice and
  Guidance
• Improving Quality
• Improving Professional Development

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Improving Careers Education

• CEIAG Map and Guide
• - issued January 2009
• Business Engagement Working Group
• - preparation underway
• Employability and Work Related Learning
• -150,000 learners have participated to date
• STEM Careers Action Plan
• -STEM teams in place in ELBs with business plan
  for year 2 and 3 annual stem review

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Improving Access to Careers Information

• Information Champion
• - DEL information champion appointed
• - Industry Factsheets developed and disseminated
• - Careers staff trained
• Careers Information Hub
• - Background research ongoing

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Improving the provision of Careers Advice and
Guidance

• Recruitment of additional careers advisers
• - Target 105 (FTE) by December 2010
• Partnership between schools, FE, training and
  apprenticeship providers and Careers Service
• - All post primary schools - partnership
  agreement in place
• - FE and training providers - discussions
  ongoing
• CIAG Facilities
• - 2 Careers Resource Centres established -
  positive review
• - Roll out agreed in principle

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Careers Advice and Guidance contd

• Parental Involvement
• - Initial work with Parents Advice groups
• Provision of CIAG for young people/adults
  vulnerable to social exclusion
• - Partnership with statutory, voluntary and
  community groups
• - National Careers Award 2010
• - 2 Projects Disability and Other Barriers
• Adult guidance
• - Referral arrangements between Employment
  Service and
• Careers Service
• - Training
• - Outreach Adult Careers Guidance Services
  redundancy counselling / community networking -
  EGSA

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Improving Quality

• Quality Standards
• - ETI standards issued
• - Implementation in schools ongoing
• - Development work with Training Suppliers
• - Implementation underway in Careers Service
• Impact Evidence
• - Careers Service Annual Report
• - Project draft indicators by June 2011

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Improving Professional Development

• Qualifications and CPD frameworks
• - LLUK Careers Constituency panel DEL NISCA
• - ELB Careers Group preparing proposals for
  careers teacher development
• CEIAG Forum
• - 2010 ICG Annual Conference
• - NISCA Conference

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Challenges

• Developing Resource Centres Capital Spend
• Promoting Adult Guidance
• Promoting and developing Parental Involvement
• Enhancing stakeholder involvement/partnership
  working
• Demonstrating impact