Title: National Work Experience Quality Standard
1National Work Experience Quality Standard
- Stephen Gardner
- CEO Fair Train
2Why is work experience so important
- Clear evidence it helps young people find work
- Funding moving towards employers and employment
outcomes - National focus on reducing youth unemployment
- LEP priorities for delivering solutions that lead
to employment for young people
3Why Have a Standard?
- QUALITY
- Ensures students get a good experience
- There was no definition of Good Quality
- OfSted evidence shows quality is very variable
- Creates consistency across your organisation and
employers - PUBLIC CONFIDENCE
- media criticism is causing employers to pull out
of offering work experience - Differentiates you as a good quality provider
- BUILDS LOYALTY
- all providers looking for good quality employers.
- Youth Contract, Talent match, Traineeships,
Schools, LEP initiatives etc.
4 Examples of Recent Coverage
- Boycott Workfare Traineeships re-branding,
privatising and lengthening a workfare scheme - Newsnight Kwik Fits unpaid Traineeship
labelled as unsatisfactory - Twitter National unpaid Work Skills show 2013
Traineeships -
5Quality Standard and Frameworks
- For Training Providers and Employers
- Built on good practice wherever it is found
- Overseen by Steering Group made up of key
organisations and individuals from the Sector - Developmental you can influence future
development - Backed by an independent Complaints Service
6What The Frameworks Cover
- Confirm it is a voluntary activity
- Organisation
- Preparing the systems to support WE
- Planning the Placement
- Ensuring young person and employer are prepared
- Starting the Placement
- Good induction vital
- The Placement
- Conducting Reviews
- End of Placement and afterwards
7Frameworks at Three Levels
- Gold,
- Silver,
- Bronze
- Key criteria for good quality
- Enable organisations at all levels to sign up now
and aspire to higher levels - Independent Complaints Service
8Adopting the Standard
- Easy and aspirational
- Adopt now
- Self assess and record level
- Use and publicise Quality Standard Branding
- Agree aspirational level and timescale
- GOLD Club share good practice and develop
Standard
9Who Should Adopt?
You Your Sub-contractors you want to know
your quality is consistent Your employers
consistency and reputation
10Who has adopted?
- Oct 2013 to Feb 2014 250 organisations
- Colleges, including
Bury Chichester Burton and Leek
Sheffield Hereward North Warwickshire and Hinckley
Derby Henley South Leicestershire
Leicester Kirklees Wirral Metropolitan
South Tyneside Treloar Central College Nottingham
Employers including British Red Cross, World
Wildlife Fund, Viridian Housing, Spirit Pub
Company, Places for People, Age Concern, BM,
Babington, City West Housing Trust, Headway,
Cheshire, MIND, Wetherby,
Councils, LEPs including Lancashire, Torridge,
South Tyneside, South Somerset, North Dorset,
Kirklees, Doncaster, Manchester, North Bristol
NHS Trust
11Work Experience Week13th to 17th October 2014
- Celebrate the benefits of work experience to
young people and employers with the aim of
recruiting more to participate - National support from Ministers, policy makers,
funders, employers offering WE and providers
arranging it. - Get involved
- Pledge support to the aims
- Organise events to promote WEW
- Publish case studies showing benefits video
diaries - Work with media good news stories
- www.giveyouthachance.com
12Fairtrain.org