Advising the Pre-16 Learner

Jenny Kirk

and

Barbara Orr

Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance, like the

weather . . .

� Is forever changing

� Has seasons

� Is unpredictable� Is unpredictable

� Faces new phenomena

� Is difficult to forecast

� Has regional differences

� Has short and long term effects (on education)

Outlook Last Season

� High pressure

� Clear

� Settled

� Sunny

Why this weather report?

� Labour Government

� National Curriculum Changes

� Connexions service

� Introduction of PSHEE

� New 14 – 19 agenda

� New diploma qualification

Evidence for this weather report

DfEE 2000 Careers Education in the new curriculum

DfEE 2000 School Improvement: How

careers work can help

DfEE 2000 establishing the Connexions DfEE 2000 establishing the Connexions

Service in schools

DfES 2003 Careers Education and Guidance

in England: A national framework 11 -19

DfES 2005 Report – End to End Review of

CEG

DCSF 2009 IAG Strategy

Key Reports affecting aspects of careers weather

� Final Report of the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions (July 2009)

� Lord Browne’s Report “Securing a � Lord Browne’s Report “Securing a Sustainable Future for Higher Education in the UK“ (October 2010)

� Professor Alison Wolf’s Report (March 2011)

Major Climate Change Forecast!

Severe Weather Warnings for

HEAVY RAIN

Strong Winds …

FOG

Coalition Government“Freedom, fairness and responsibility”

� Freedoms(e.g. academies and free schools)

� Removal of statutory burdens� Removal of statutory burdens(e.g. SEF no longer required)

� School autonomy

� Reduced resources(e.g. cuts to local authority budgets)

The Gales of Change

The Gales of Change

Dept now called DfE

Spending cuts

� Removal of funding for CEIAG support programmesupport programme

� 14 -19 workforce support programme discontinued

� 24% cut in Area Based Grant –funded Connexions

� Qualifications and Curriculum Agency (QCA) closed

Gales lead to new climate

phenomena

NEW All-Age Careers Service (2010)

Announced by John Hayes, November 2010

Impartial careers advice� Impartial careers advice

� Professional expertise

� Clear national standards

NEW Bodies

� Taskforce

� Careers Service

� CPA

� Advisory bodies

� Recommendations

NEW Taskforce on the Careers Profession (2010)

Careers Profession Task Force report: 'Towards a Strong Careers Profession' (October 2010)

Recommendations designed to:

� Uphold professional standards

� Raise the status of career guidance

NEW Careers Profession Alliance (2011)

� 5 professional bodies

� Government wanted to consult with only ONE professional bodyonly ONE professional body

� Grown out of existing networks

NEW National Careers Service (2011)

� Joined up service for all age groups

� Young people and adults

� Independent careers advice

� Clear national standards

� Fully operational from April 2012

Major Climate Change

Storm clouds gathering

Major Climate Change

Storm clouds gathering

� Schools to pay for careers guidance from existing resourcesfrom existing resources

� Schools receive very mixed messages

� Who is there to decipher these for

teachers and students?

Education Act 2011: CEG

� Schools will have a new statutory duty to secure independent careers guidance for pupils in Years 9-11

� The statutory duty to teach careers education will be repealed

� Consultation on extending duty down to year 8 and up to years 12 and 13

The Future

� Decisions made by schools

� There will be a range of providers of careers guidance careers guidance

� LAs retain the statutory duty to provide careers IAG until 2012

� LAs retain the responsibility for support for more vulnerable

Statutory Guidance - Directive for Schools, Governing Bodies and LAs

� Due January 2012

� Schools accountable for successful � Schools accountable for successful progression of pupils

� Raising the Participation Age

� Pupil Premium

Statutory Guidance 2

� No expectation that LAs will provide universal careers service

� LAs retain duty to encourage, � LAs retain duty to encourage, enable or assist young people’s participation in education or training

� Information on all options

Careers Education

� Requirement for schools to provide a programme of careers education has been repealed

� However, pupils require careers � However, pupils require careers knowledge and skills to benefit from guidance

� Proposal for new framework for careers and work-related learning

Wider careers activities

First hand experience of further and higher education through:

� Visits

� Work experience� Work experience

� Work shadowing

� Talks

� Mentoring

� Master classes

Quality Standards

� Matrix revised Oct 2011 – for work with adults

Quality in Careers QiCS – under � Quality in Careers QiCS – under development with Careers England

Review of Initial Coalition Proposals

5 steps

1. Thematic review

2. Improved careers guidance2. Improved careers guidance

3. Publication of good practice

4. Awards

5. ‘Licence to practice’ consultation

Career guidance from 2012: schools doing it for themselves

� Employing a professionally qualified careers adviser

� Training a teacher or member of the non-teaching staff to provide the non-teaching staff to provide career guidance

� Giving the job to someone not qualified or trained

Career guidance from 2012:local authority approaches

� providing a traded career guidance service

� working with schools to seeking a managed transition to a preferred managed transition to a preferred (existing) supplier

� providing a list of approved suppliers

� stepping back to allow a completely free market

Career guidance from 2012: schools buying in career guidance

� from the LA

� from a career guidance company (including NCS providers)

� from a sole trader/individual CA� from a sole trader/individual CA

� from a social enterprise formed by several CAs

� from an EBP

� from an FE college

as an individual school or as a consortium

Students’ CEG support needs

Information

� on post-13/14 (KS4) options, post-16 � on post-13/14 (KS4) options, post-16 options, post-17 and post-18 options

� on progression routes

� comprehensive, up to date, accessible

Students’ CEG support needs 2

Guidance

� linked to tutoring and mentoring

� effective recording and referral

� impartial� impartial(based on the needs of the learner, not the institution

Careers Education

� how to use information and guidance

Where do universities fit in?

� Communication

� Networking

� Visits

� Work experience

� Mentoring

� Websites

� Curriculum activities� Work experience

� Work shadowing

� Internships

� Master classes

activities

� Off timetable days

� Labour market

� Employability

Hope springs eternal …