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ContinU Trust Partners

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A Consortium since 2004 becoming a Charitable Company as the ContinU Trust in 2008.

The members are:Seven 11-18 Secondary Schools, Kidderminster College, Barnardo's and Birmingham and Wolverhampton Universities)

It exists: to represents the collaborative will of its partners seeking

contracts and commissioning services as necessary to assist in its objectives

Mission Statement:

“ContinU will provide a rich, varied and high quality learning entitlement for all young people in all our institutions and, by doing so, we will engage more learners and increase their successes.

We know we can do more for all our learners together, than we ever could alone”

ContinU Trust Sample Collaborative Activity

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Nationally a Leading School/College PartnershipCollaborative KS4 Vocational ProgrammesCollaborative AS/A2 levelsSharing Good Practice 2 National Teaching SchoolsWHP Early Family Intervention Service – 34

Primary SchoolsOpening Doors enrichment programme serviceContinU Plus Academy AP Free School – Sept

2013WCC Early Help 10:32 – August 2013

NEET Prevention ProgrammeBackground:

Early Help and “10:32”Changing Government policy re IAG

The Approach to a Collaborative NEET ProgrammeThe RONI s (sadly more than 2)Common Tracking (see handout)Layered contributions (see slide 5)

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ContinU NEET Prevention Support Layers

10:32/AF

Collaborative Activities

In-school Activities

10:32 Careers Advisors/AF

“Opening Doors”“Get Ahead” Other?

School Based CareersInterventions

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NEET Prevention Programme (2) 10:32 Careers Advisors

Roles

Housekeeping

Parental permissions and Early Help Notification Form

Initial allocations and case loads based on Red/Amber RONIs (last year):

School Careers Advisor Allocation days per week

Baxter Bridget Mann 1.5

Bewdley Sara Flack 0.5

CPA Bridget Mann 1.5

King Charles Sara Flack 1.0

Wolverley Sara Flack 1.0

Stourport Bridget Mann 1.0

Haybridge Andy Farthing 0.5

Hagley Andy Farthing 0.56

Wider Careers Guidance – Are there potential collaborative opportunities?

Review of School and LA obligations

Statutory Requirements re Impartiality – possible collaborative approaches

Quality Assurance and SGP

Training Needs re in school qualified Careers Advisors (at or working towards L6

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Next StepsTerms of Reference for this Board (see handout)10:32 Careers Advisor scheduled school visits

Latest RONI red/amber reviewAlignment of time allocation with in-school and collaborative layers Tracking process arrangements (baseline of support)Housekeeping inc space and wifi accessEHN Forms and Home Permissions

10:32 Careers Advisors to generate an aggregated plan based on layers of NEET Prevention Support

Universal Careers – Agreed actions re impartiality challenge and QA/Training support 8