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Andrea Cowans
Leeds City Council
Raising Participation Age:
What this means in practice
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What is RPA?
The Education and Skills Act (2008) places a duty on all
young people to participate in education or training until
their 18th birthday.
This does not necessarily mean staying in school, it
includes:
– Full-time education, such as school or college;
– an Apprenticeship;
– Part-time education or training if employed, self
employed or volunteering for 20 hours + a week.
Current year 11 are expected to remain in learning
until the end of year 12. Year 10s until their 18th
birthday.
How will participation be measured?
□ The DfE will hold local authorities to account using
data sets from monthly CCIS returns, including
comparison with statistical neighbours
□ Year on year improvements in performance are
expected in data for
 Participation in learning at 16 and 17
 September Guarantee
 Annual Activity Survey
 Numbers of young people who are NEET
What is the destination measure?
 Measures how well schools / learning providers help
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pupils progress to post 16 and post 19 destinations
and sustain these (measure is March following
transition)
Makes schools accountable for ensuring pupils
choose qualifications that allow them to progress
and provides evidence of support for transition
Published on DfE performance tables
Experimental data in 2012 captured education
destinations
Expect to publish both education and employment
destinations in summer 2013, subject to data being
robust
Leeds Post 16 participation
□ 93.1% of year 11s went onto further learning
or training in 2011
April 2012
Yr 12
Yr 13
Yr 14
Yr 12-Yr
14
Total
Not Known %
2.4%
7.6%
20.3%
10.3%
91.2%
84.1%
63.1%
79.1%
5.5%
6.8%
10.0%
7.4%
In Learning %
Adjusted NEET% (LA Definition)
□ 93.8% of year 11s went onto further learning
or training in 2012 (provisional data)
How far do we have to go?
100%
90%
80%
Age 16
Age 17
70%
60%
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
□Progress towards full participation (using DfE estimates,
SFR)
Leeds participation challenge
□ Progression from year 11
 Some groups have significantly lower progression
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rates
Particular issue in progression, participation and
P16 learning offer for SEND
□ Retention during year 12 and 13
□ Managed moves post 16
□ Tracking 17,18 and 19 year olds
□ Re-engaging young people who have been
NEET 6 months +
Schools and RPA: practical actions
□ Look at post 16 participation and NEET rates
for your school and understand how this
informs the Destination Measure
□ Understand your cohort of pupils, use a risk
of NEET indicator or diagnostic tool to identify
young people with at risk of poor progression
 Pupils who are on off-site learning, attending
PRUs, looked after children and persistent nonattenders are at greatest risk of not progressing,
along with school action and schools action plus.
Schools and RPA: practical actions
□ Secure high quality impartial careers
guidance for pupils
□ Make sure every pupil makes an application
to post 16 learning: online applications are
easy to check up on
□ Identify a progression mentor or adviser to:
 monitor the progress of application
 provide encouragement around visits and
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interviews
liaise with the post 16 provider
keep in contact over summer and into September
Schools and RPA: practical actions
□ Get to know local post 16 providers and put
in place progression agreements
 Written agreement to identify the role of partners
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in transition process
Share information about young person’s learning
and support needs
Identify transition support activities including
summer schools, visits and make sure pupils have
a named contact
□ Invite employers, apprenticeship providers,
higher education and former pupils to talk to
pupils and raise aspirations
Schools and RPA: practical actions
□ Work with targeted IAG services provided by the
local authority to put support services in place for
young people most at risk of not progressing
□ Share information about pupil destinations, update
contact details, provide information about pupils
moving away or transferring schools to help LAs with
tracking duties
□ Ensure timely returns of data requests about
intended destinations, September Guarantee and for
the Activity Survey
□ Join a careers network, share ideas, resources and
your own learning
What can make a difference?
□ New approach to careers guidance in schools
□ IAG signposting: wider workforce project
□ New Targeted IAG Connexions services for 2013
□ Youth contract: local model
□ Destination measure
□ National Citizenship Service
□ SEN Education, Health and Care plans
□ Review of Youth Offer
□ ‘Think family’ approach to targeted services
□ Strong partnerships using outcome-based
accountability to identify local actions
Our ambitions… By 2030 Leeds is the
best city in Britain
□ Prosperous and sustainable economy
□ Child Friendly City
□ ‘NEET free’ city
□ Leeds Education Challenge
 Post 16 review
 Apprenticeships
 Employment and Skills Agenda
 Higher education
 Review of careers guidance provision for
young people
Learner Progression and Participation (IAG) Landscape
(from September 2012)
Learning Providers
Schools, colleges, training and off-site providers
Procure from
Use
Approved list
of careers guidance
providers
Part-procure
Leeds Pathways
Online prospectus, CAP,
resources &
interactive services
Co-ordinate
Local Authority
Core infrastructure & Strategic planning
Meeting range of statutory duties
Tracking
Voice and Influence
IAG signposting skills for wider workforce
Refer to
Targeted
Young People’s IAG
Services
for vulnerable young people
Commission