Courses, Documents & Links for Professionals in North Yorkshire

• IAG Standards - User Guide
• National IAG Standards
• National IAG Strategy
• Statutory Guidance for Impartial Careers Education
• A presentation which identifies leadership approaches to the delivery of IAG in a range of secondary schools across England
• A presentation outlining CPD for careers education and IAG in schools and colleges
• Statutory guidance: impartial careers education resources pack

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Citizenship

ACT (Association for Citizen Teaching) has developed a series of six exciting new learning activities to help support careers learning through Citizenship.

The activities are fully supported by lesson plans, PowerPoints and web links and a full teachers’ introduction and LA advisers’ guide is included.

"Citizenship equips pupils with the knowledge and skills needed for effective and democratic participation. It helps pupils to become informed, critical, active citizens who have the confidence and conviction to work collaboratively, take action and try to make a difference in their communities and the wider world." - national curriculum. Citizenship therefore makes a significant contribution to the way the young person can live their life also beyond the school gates. It supports and reflects not only the other curriculum subjects, but also important aspects of life beyond school – including careers.

Teachers from across the country have piloted the resources stand in testimony to their usefulness:

• ‘All activities should fit in well with all aspects of PSHEE, Citizenship and CEIA.’
• ‘As a Business and Enterprise College this is an ideal opportunity to concentrate on the different employment areas.’
• ‘Good way of preparing Year 9 students before they choose their options.'

National Apprenticeship Service Resource Pack

This resource pack is for Teachers and Careers and IAG Providers. It has been developed to be used with a range of audiences. Material includes fact sheets, teacher resource sheets and activity sheets. These can be used as appropriate with each audience.

Young People

Included within the Resource Pack is a Delivery Plan and PowerPoint presentation. They have both been developed to be used to support your current delivery of Information Advice and Guidance (IAG). The activities can be delivered in bite size chunks and can be mixed and matched with your current resources. The Resource Pack will support delivery of an IAG session to a single learner or a group of learners.

Connexions Advisers/School IAG Staff

The Resource Pack is intended to fill gaps in knowledge around Apprenticeships and can be used by individuals or through an inset training session. It has been developed to allow you to select individual fact sheets or resources for the areas where your knowledge needs further development.

School Teachers

The Resource Pack will support the delivery of an IAG session to a group of learners or on a one to one basis. It will also support the development of knowledge around Apprenticeships and can be used individually or as part of an inset training day for staff.

• The Good Practice Guide to enterprise education
• A new group of films to help teachers give information, advice and guidance

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• Practitioners Guide to Which Way Now and It's Your Choice
• The World is Changing video
• The UK Commission for Employment and Skills
• Careers Information from NCVYS - working and volunteering with young people this page includes How to find a volunteer placement working with young people, Careers Guide (Second edition, March 2010): An introduction to working and volunteering in the voluntary and community youth sector, Career Information Sheets - seven occupations covered including a youth worker, Careers Advice Service - for careers advice and training course information, more information about working in the voluntary and charity sector - NCVO, working for a Charity Looking for an apprenticeship? Search and apply for vacancies at the National Apprenticeship Service
• Princes Trust - Need help in Yorkshire and Humberside? They run programmes to help young people who are working less than 16 hours a week, and who want to get their lives working.
• Download the Key Stage 4 PDF Rescue Pack for GCSE students 
• Download the Key Stage 5 PDF Rescue Pack for A Level students
• Social mobility of young people and adults in England: The contents of the paper build upon an earlier analysis of social mobility policy1 and upon key themes emerging from recent interviews with six leading figures from within industry and education. Also, a review of research literature on the impact of careers education, information, advice and guidance (CEIAG) provides a strong evidence-base to help influence and inform the design and implementation of a progressive strategy for a new all-age careers service framework in England. From a combination of these sources, a compelling argument is made for timely, relevant and cost effective public, private and voluntary/community careers service delivery arrangements throughout England.
• Free Downloads from Developing the IAG Workforce All the documents are in word format unless otherwise stated. 14-19 Diplomas - Diploma Quizzes - Progression Maps - Progression Maps- Sources of Information Sheets - LMI Summaries- Audits, Checklists and Templates- Development Tools - Lesson Plans and Support Materials - Training Materials

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• The National Apprenticeship Service- Apprenticeship Teaching Resources Pack
• A simplified diagram of progression routes from the National Apprenticeship Service website
• Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)
• Against the odds Re-engaging young people in education, employment or training - statistics, analysis, recommendations
• Vocational qualifications on the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF)are new, work-related qualifications. They are designed to allow people to learn in a way that suits them and give them the skills that employers are looking for. There are already over 5,000 of these new vocational qualifications on the QCF, available in a wide range of subjects. More are being added all the time.

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1. Deadlines: The deadline for new students applying for full-time support this year is the 25th June. If students don’t apply in time – supplying all the evidence we have asked for – they may not receive their money at the start of term.

On the Direct.Gov website, there is a range of information and help for applicants. The following are the key pages:

• Help with Student Finance online services
• Full time Student Finance: frequently asked questions
• Student Finance England: service updates. 

2. Practitioner Website Resources: A range of resources to help you as IAG practitioners. Some recent additions include:

• Online Application Demonstrations: available as a range of mini-videos and a full "mock account" walkthrough
• Part-time Student Finance Calculator: available towards the bottom of this page
• Factsheets: covering key funding information on topics such as Disabled Students Allowances and courses of Initial Teacher Training. 

Part-time Student Finance Applications - Academic Year 2010/11 Those of you who have attended local events I have delivered recently will be aware that the part-time application process starts in August. The part-time application materials are now available. Students and practitioners can download these from the Direct Gov website by clicking on the following link (The part-time forms are shown about half way down this page)

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Documents and links:

• 14 July 2010, Office for National Statistics, Labour Market Statistics
• LMI for 24 Sector Skills Councils

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• Reducing the numbers of young people not in education, employment or training: what works and why
• NEET Statistics - Quarterly Brief, August 2010.This note sets out the available statistics on young people Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) and young people Not in Education or Training (NET) from various sources
• Breaking the Cycle of Worklessness - an information document from the Prince's Trust.

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• Department of Education
• 14-19 Reform - Next Steps
• DCFS 14-19 ReformFuelling Potential A blueprint for skills accounts and the adult advancement and careers service
• Poorer children’s educational attainment: how important are attitudes and behaviour?
• Readability Document; How to produce clear written materials for a range of readers
• Connexions Direct
• Cegnet
• The Children, Schools and Families Bill
• The Young People's Learning Agency
• Video - The World is Changing
• Careersbox TV
• Bill Law's career learning cafe
• The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS)
• The Alliance of Sector Skills Councils
• The National Youth Homelessness organisation
• The Children's Legal Centre providing IA and representation for children and YPs
• Smaart Advice - the National website and newspaper for careers professionals
• Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre
• Care to Learn Application Resource Pack
• Foundation Learning funding - frequently asked questions including information on E2E
• Prospects Education Resources for all those institutions involved in the delivery of IAG PSHE education including special needs resources
• The National Council for Voluntary Organisations has set up a section of their website called - The Big Society - the evidence base.  This includes a link to the cabinet office document Building the Big Society

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This is a list of courses which are available.  If you would like to attend a particular course, please download the booking form.  You can:

• Post it to: Chrissy Mallett Administrator, Igen Ltd, North Yorkshire HQ
• Email it to: chrissy.mallett@igengroup.co.uk fax: 01609 773372

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These are courses run by partners and organisations other than Connexions.

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• Fuelling Potential A blueprint for skills accounts and the adult advancement and careers service

• A presentation called Implementing the Vision: Information, Advice and Guidance for Young People

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