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Explore My Future

This new workshop and face-to-face support programme is designed and delivered by Connexions Leicester Shire for Year 5/6 pupils at primary schools in Leicester and Leicestershire.

The programme is delivered through a range of fun activities in weekly workshop sessions which can be tailored to the demands of a busy school timetable.  Find out more about 'Explore my Future'

Careers Education and Work-Related Learning

Do you need to explain careers education and work-related learning to others? The Association for Careers Education and Guidance (ACEG) has written a brief guide giving the principles in a nutshell: Careers Education and Work-Related Learning (Autumn 2011). 

Save Careers Campaign

e-petition on Careers Advice for Young People

Paul Chubb of Careers England has posted a petition on the HM Government petition website.  The petition asks the Department for Education to:

 

‘ensure that all young people up to age 19 can, if and when they choose, access face to face quality assured impartial careers advice and guidance - provided by professionally competent careers advisers who have knowledge and skills informed by the labour market’

 

If you can support this petition please do so. The e-petition can be completed at : http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/

If you enter “careers advice for young people” it will direct you straight to the petition.

16-19 Bursaries

The scheme helps 16 to19-year-olds continue in full-time education, where they might otherwise struggle for financial reasons. It is made up of two parts – a bursary of £1,200 a year to the most vulnerable young people and a discretionary fund for schools and colleges to distribute.

The Guide for schools and colleges from the YPLA (Young People's Learning Agency) sets out arrangements for the scheme and explains how learning providers should deal with:

  • Eligibility and assessment of needs of new students
  • Administration of the 'transitional scheme' for continuing students
  • Payment arrangements either directly or ‘in kind’ to students
  • Rules about what the fund can and cannot be used for
  • Communicating with learners and their families
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