LCR Careers Hub and CEIAG

Andrew Frith (LCR CA)

&

Gill Ditchburn (Sefton EBP)

Background

• As outlined in the City Region’s Devolution Agreement, a key priority for the City Region is to secure greater cohesion and better alignment with growth opportunities to careers education and advisory services

• Key Outcome of the Area Based Review

• Partners across the City Region have historically and consistently recognised the positive impact that high-quality and coordinated services in this area can have on the learning and skills choices and employment outcomes of individuals.

• A LCR Careers Hub is seen as a key strategic driver for change/ improvement

Careers Hub Background

It is the intention that the Hub’s focus will be:-

• To lead on ensuring that there is better co-ordination of careers

education and information, advice and guidance across the City

Region;

• To work with partners and service deliverers to minimise duplication,

support effective delivery and maximise resources ;

• To help ensure that individuals are provided with clear learning and

skills/ employment pathways - including promoting the ‘Inspiration

Agenda’ and individuals’ ambitions;

• A more relevant and coherent offer and one which incorporates the

current and future employment opportunities afforded by the growth

and priority sectors; and

Careers Hub•Co-ordination•Avoiding Duplication•Clear Pathways•Coherent Offer•Maximising both the level and use of resources

Careers and Enterprise Company

Schools

Jobs for Tomorrow/YEG

FE Colleges & Private Providers

Find a Future/ World Skills

Voluntary Community

Sector/Talent Match

National Careers Service

•Web and face-to-face

•Inspiration Co-ordinator

ESFA•Traineeships/Apprenticeship

Contract

Universities(including Shaping Futures; World of

Work)

Apprenticeship Hub and Business

Growth Hub

Scope•14 – 19•NEET•Sector Pathways•19+ Prework

DWP/ Jobcentre Plus

Welfare to Work providers

Councils

‘The starting Landscape’

Careers Hub

• Tightly focused strategic group to lead the co-ordination of careers provision and materials in Liverpool City Region

• Channel and funnel

• Support and influence National Programmes locally delivered (e.g. National Careers Service)

• Support and influence investment funds held by national organisations such as the Careers and Enterprise Company in order to meet LCR priorities

• Operationally focussed workshops to supplement Careers Hub meetings

Current Careers Hub

MembershipName Local Accountability / Networks

Rob Tabb (Chair) LCR Combined Authority- Employment and Skills Team

Leeann Bellfield Merseyside Colleges Association

Elaine McCausland Community Learning Providers

Janine Peterson DWP/ JCP

Paul Smith Chair of LCR PaSS (14-19) Group

Carol Jamieson National Careers Service

Clare Hutchinson Careers and Enterprise Company

Debbie Tagoe Greater Merseyside Learning Providers Federation

Tbc: 1 x Local Schools

representative tbc

Associations of Secondary Heads

Dr Peter Hawkins Windmills

Lisa Ashby-Dowling Employer Brokerage

Andrew Frith LCR Combined Authority- Employment and Skills Team (lead Officer

support)

Andy Devaney Employers/ Sector Boards (LEP)

Terry Dray

Steve Plant

Higher Education Institutions Careers Departments

Siobhan Saunders Apprenticeships

Informing our work and setting

direction: National Careers Strategy

Published 4 December 2017 “Making the most of

everyone’s skills and talents”.

Key themes:-

• Inspiring encounters with further and higher

education, and with employers and workplaces

• Excellent advice and guidance programmes

• Support and guidance tailored to individual needs

• Using data and technology to help everyone make

choices about careers

Informing our work and setting

direction: National Careers Service

(NCS)

• Careers Hub and local partners are supporting both the

delivery of the current National Careers Service in our

area and informing the planning and design of the new

National Careers Service to be operational from October

2018

• Service will provide telephone, web, and a locally

based LCR face-to-face support service for those

young people and adults aged19 and over- with a

focus on those with low or no qualifications, single

parents, individuals with special educational needs or

disabilities and those adults who are unemployed aged

over 50 or who face significant risk of redundancy.

Informing our work and setting

direction: Careers and Enterprise

Company

Enhanced role outlined in the Skills Strategy, including:• A broader role across all the Gatsby Benchmarks from September

2018.

• Careers strategy supports the idea of local delivery through a focus

on careers ‘hubs’ (schools focus); prospectus issued April 18

• Careers Leaders: £4M to fund training for Careers Leaders in at

least 500 schools and colleges- CEC will lead the process

(prospectus in April 18)

• All schools and colleges are also to have access to an Enterprise

Adviser by the end of 2020.

• Investment Fund. £5M fund for disadvantaged young people -CEC

will run the process to allocate this funding (prospectus no later than

September 2018)

Key local Strategic Initiatives

• Employer Skills Survey (1,856 employers participated)

• Skills Strategy

• LCR Skills Commission

• Area Based Review Implementation

• Apprenticeship Growth Plan

• Skills for Growth Agreements

Informing our work- Local Context: Metro

Mayoral Priority

“ In a rapidly changing global economy, young people

need the best available information and support when

thinking about their further education and employment

options. We will develop and introduce a new Independent

Careers Service to help young people to make impartial

and informed decisions about their future work- life options”

Steve Rotheram 2017 (Our Future Together- Metro

Mayor Manifesto)

Ambitious and raising aspiration

Current position and activity

summary 1

• CEIAG planning workshop- Feb 2017- resulting in100

potential actions/ themes to consider!

• First meeting of Careers Hub held on 27th July 2017

• FE sector briefing held on 20th July 2017

• Second full meeting held 3rd October 2017-

December meeting postponed to allow reflection on

National Careers Strategy

• Gatsby Benchmarks, Sector LMI, and Enhanced

Careers Materials identified as key strategic actions

Discussions had been held with the Careers and Enterprise Company and the

Gatsby Foundation to identify how potential actions and ways of working can

strengthen CEIAG delivery across the LCR. New Careers Strategy directs CEC

to focus on all 8 benchmarks. 2016/17 CEC “State of the Nation” report

indicated that only half of schools achieve 2 or more benchmarks; 20% achieve

none.

Activity summary 2: CEC &

Gatsby Benchmarks

Activity summary 3: Sector LMI,

Careers Materials & Promoting Choice • Updated Health and Care, and Construction SFG agreements to be

finalised next month

• Health Skills Show- held November- including launching the updated Health and Care Skills for Growth Agreement for a final consultation- ends 5pm on Friday 26th January

• Other SFG agreements and sector specific careers materials to be developed in the months ahead (design company appointed via OCT and other SFG agreements in development will be via OCT)

• Innovative CEIAG ‘ican’ resource in development and has been shared for consultation at the October Careers Hub meeting and also the December Skills Commission meeting- delivery plan now in development

• Wider career options through apprenticeships promoted to young people and employers by the Apprenticeship Hub co-ordinators.

(all supported via ESF Employees support in skills programme)

Next Steps- and becoming

involved

• Careers Hub to discuss work plan in light of Careers Strategy publication and agree further priority actions- including securing greater input from schools

• Careers and Enterprise Company CEO and officers to meet with Metro Mayor to identify how best to ensure that CEC investment addresses LCR priorities

• Influencing SFG and CEIAG Materials development and using LMI gained from the Employer Skills Survey and Employer Engagement

• Finalise and launch LCR CEIAG ‘ican’ resource

• Influence future investment and performance

• Support the Skills Commission’s CEIAG Key Lines of Enquiry

• Ensuring key outcomes of the Skills Strategy are secured through the strategy’s implementation phase

Contact: andy.frith@liverpoolcityregion-ca.gov.uk ; telephone 0151- 330 1258

Liverpool City Region Enterprise Adviser Network

Gill Ditchburn

Partnership Manager

Contact: GillD@seftonebp.co.uk

0151- 330 5750

Liverpool City Region Enterprise Adviser Network

• Liverpool City Region Enterprise Adviser Network (EAN)- set up

and roles

• Engagement levels with schools, colleges and businesses

• Careers Strategy and use of Careers benchmarking tools

• How EAN complements delivery programmes/ funded activities

• How GMLPF members can support and benefit from the network