Employer engagement

Triage in a careers setting is using information about young person’s career requirements and decisions to decide what support that young person requires and who the best person is to give that support.

This paper reviews the effectiveness of these employer-led transition skills events. Its findings will provide schools and colleges with evidence to support the delivery of these events and activities.

Produced in 2017 this paper describes the evidence base for transition programmes for young adults with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). Schools, colleges and providers of careers and enterprise programmes are invited to use this evidence to inform the programmes that they are running and developing.

This resource is designed to support Careers Leaders and other staff involved in the transition process from Key Stage 2 into Key Stage 3, exploring opportunities to embed careers activities and parental engagement across the full range of transition opportunities.

It takes you through the three phases:

1. Decision making (Y4,5,6) while children and parents /carers are still considering their options
2. Decision made (Y6) once the children have been allocated their secondary school
3. Started (Y7) once the children have started their secondary school.

Booklet detailing the steps a parent/carer should take from Year 9 of a young person's school career to ensure their transition when leaving school is as smooth as possible, plus information on the possible next placements.

Top Tips from AET on creating an online work experience programme.

Create your own three-year data collection plan by using this example timeline. Gain ideas to shape your own plan while supporting the benchmark requirements.

This brand new 6-minute film (with British Sign Language interpretation) follows the inspirational stories of apprentices with learning differences, disabilities and health conditions.

Learn how these apprentices are progressing their careers through apprenticeships and the ways that their employers and training providers are supporting them.

Take advantage of this flexible and valuable teaching tool, which offers the unique capacity to capture the attention of a wide student audience.

These free resources have been developed by Accenture (national).

Resources are relevant, realistic training preparing learners for the entire journey of choosing the right career, finding a job and being successful in the workplace:

• Features innovative simulations providing a safe environment for learners to practice for real life situations e.g., a job interview, first day in a new job.
• Choose from 108 bite-sized, interactive and highly effective online learning modules and 26 downloadable activity packs to consolidate learning.

Help students identify their own skills – as well as the areas where they might need further development – and encourage reflection in a fun and engaging way.

All pupils should have the same opportunities for meaningful provider encounters and the overwhelming majority of pupils with SEND, including those with high levels of needs, can access fulfilling jobs and careers with the right preparation and support.

However, where learners future pathways are limited due to the nature of their specific learning needs and/or physical ability - for example where they are highly likely to proceed into adult social care - it is recognised that it may be necessary for additional flexibility in how these encounters are delivered.