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Career Hubs – What is happening out there?

CDI Annual Conference and Exhibition 2019 Careers 4.0 – Career management 2025

Workshop Aim: “To provide an independent and impartial overview of

what is happening on the ground.”

Are Career Hubs:

• Engaging in localised hotspots of deprivation and need?

• Addressing wider concerns to mediate information needs?

• Effective in complementing the Gatsby Benchmarks and encouraging good practice?

Emphasis on 1st Wave of Funding as 2nd still work in progress

Hubs are certainly trendy!

NHS hubs, Innovation hubs, Growth hubs,

Manufacturing and Engineering hubs. etc.

University Careers Services - eg. University of Liverpool’s

CareerHub www.psychliverpool.co.uk/student-life/careers-and-jobs/careerhub/

Leeds City Region LEP - Careers Hub, Employment hub, Stakeholder hub, high speed hub, public transport hub, Northern hub, apprenticeship hub https://www.leeds.gov.uk/leedspathways

Swindon’s Careers Hub focussing on NHS https://swindoncareershub.info/

BBC Careers Hub https://careershub.bbc.co.uk/members/index.php

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Background and Context -important documents:

• Good Career Guidance - Gatsby Foundation (2014)

Information on development of benchmarks and recommendations for schools and employers www.goodcareerguidance.org.uk

• Careers Strategy document (Dec 2017) outlined intention to set up careers hubs following a successful pilot in the North East. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/664319/Careers_strategy.pdf

• Careers hub prospectus - CEC (April 2018) 20 (22)new Hubs in Sept 2018 to run for two years to July 2020. Hub Leads £40 – 50Kwww.careersandenterprise.co.uk/sites/default/files/uploaded/careers-hub-prospectus.pdf

• Cold spot indicators - to prioritise and target areas for the

Careers Hubs www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/sites/default/files/uploaded/updating_the_careers_cold_spots_report.pdf

Summary of Overall Strategy:

• To strengthen local community involvement

• Link schools, colleges, universities and other local organisations.

• £5 million to support, including additional coordinators based at the CEC, as part of a major trial to support the CEC’s work across all the Gatsby Benchmarks.

• Coordinators will be trained across all the Benchmarks. Each careers hub will work with the CEC’s network structure within the LEP / Local Combined Authority.

• Hub activities will be focused on groups of young people and areas most in need of targeted support, to help deliver improvements in social mobility

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-50339487

Evaluation of Hubs end of year one (2019) https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/our-research/careers-hubs-one-year

Independent report (SQW - Specialists in economic and Social

Development) produced after only one year of operation.

Relied heavily on information from Compass to assess

progress against the Gatsby Benchmarks. https://tools.careersandenterprise.co.uk/docs/digital-tools-guidance-20190129.pdf

The report does not comment on individual hubs but

takes an overview.

CDI Insight into the Labour Market

10 Quick wins to improve CG in your school The Gatsby Benchmark Toolkit

www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/sites/default/files/uploaded/gatsby_benchmark_toolkit.pdf

• Named person responsible for careers, a Careers Leader.

• Complete Compass to evaluate your current provision.

• Enterprise Adviser Network -Enterprise Co/Adviser and the Career planning tool Tracker.

• Update your website with information about your careers programme

• Start early, in Year 7

• Engage all stakeholders including parents + employers.

• Develop careers content in all subjects, not just PSHE.

• Take advantage of LMI resources and make available to all students and parents.

• Provide all students with information on all routes

• Provide experience of workplaces for all students

State of the Nation 2019Progress towards the Gatsby Benchmarks in England’s secondary

schools and colleges in Local Enterprise Partnershipshttps://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/sites/default/files/uploaded/1273_state_of_the_nation_lep_analysis_2019_final_1019.pdf

But now…. from our own correspondents:

Private and National Consultants

Careers Advisers

College Governor

North East Ambition Regional Lead

Careers Psychologist

CDI – Board Member

“If I was going to Dublin sir, I wouldn’t start from here”

What is our own experience and what have we learned?

National Collaborative Outreach Programme 1st Year Evaluation Report 2019

www.officeforstudents.org.uk/media/b0dfc7f2-2f20-4f74-87bb-78ca3d71e65f/ncop-end-of-phase-one-evaluation-report-executive-summary.pdf

29 Partnerships funded by HEFCE and Office for Students (OfS) from April 2018. Deliver a ‘sustained, progressive and intensive programme of support’ to pupils in Years 9 to 13 living in areas with low levels of HE participation and where participation was lower than expected given GCSE attainment.

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Great overlap with Career Hubs. Benchmark 7 : Encounters with further and higher education

Wave 2 Funding – Examples of good practice

LancashireCareers Hub of the

Year

Highly Commended: Worcestershire - most Middle, Secondary, SEN schools and local colleges. Led by LEP but in partnership with County Council, with focus on Enterprise Adviser Network / events http://www.skills4worcestershire.co.uk/

Twitter – challenge to communicate with so many partners but …

Cumbria Heart of South West

Use of YouTube to introduce Benchmarks

Personal concluding thoughts

Clearly examples of fantastic good practice, including

significant success engaging young people with employers.

However, confusing picture - particularly how Careers Hubs fit in with other local and national initiatives.

Hubs seem to have extremely wide-ranging responsibilities. Shades of duties of LLPs, (strategic partnerships) old careers services, EBPs all rolled into one – an enormous task for one or two years.

Like other programmes before, unless there is continued investment (ie a degree of funding continuity) they won’t have a lasting impact needed.

Careers Hubs are just one of many projects for the LEPs so maybe they don’t get the prominence they deserve. Hubs seem to be best organised when they build on existing experienced services eg

East Sussex C360 site (East Sussex County Council) www.c360.org.uk/blog/category/education/careershub.

This Hub is not led by the LEP, but instead by the local authority – offering very good information for careers leaders and young people. PRIMARY school pupils will soon be inspired by the world of work as the county council is named the only local authority to lead on a Government pilot.

The Primary Hub - 24 schools and 8,000 pupils. Reception to Year 6 to embed career support within the primary curriculum, and will share learning from the pilot with other primary schools across the county.

Will concentrate on four activities:

• Exposing pupils to career-related learning and

employability skills in the curriculum

• High-quality employer encounters with local businesses

• Inspirational STEM activities

• Engagement with parents

Other excellent initiatives!

Building on an existing trusted

platform for:

11-16, 11- 18 schools, 6th Forms,

FE/HE institutions, Hospital &

Home Tuition, Virtual Schools,

SEND/PRU establishments &

Regional Careers Services

Guidance for Teachers

Gatsby Benchmarks

KS3, KS4 & Post 16

Lesson Plans

included!

Career Companion Extra currently supporting individual schools and consortia:

London South & West

Berkshire

Oxfordshire

Gloucestershire

Wiltshire

East Sussex

Nottingham

Tyne and Wear

Cheshire

Northamptonshire

Hampshire and Isle of Wight

Workshop Aim: “To provide an independent and impartial overview of

what is happening on the ground.”

Are Career Hubs:

Engaging in localised hotspots of deprivation and need?

Addressing wider concerns to mediate information needs?

Effective in complementing the Gatsby Benchmarks and encouraging good practice?