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FOCUS ON BASINGSTOKE
Basingstoke and Deane
Population: 171,900
Basingstoke: 103,000
Rest of district: 68,900
Size: 634 km²
Urban areas: 20%
Rural areas: 80%
Key statistics
• Unemployment: 4.6%
• Youth unemployment: 1.7%
• Educational attainment:
o no qualification at all: 3.4%
o level 3 qualification: 58.4%
o level 4 qualification: 38.5%
Key statistics
• Number of businesses: 7.790 (89.7% have less
than 10 employees)
• Number of jobs: 92,000
• Main sectors of employment:
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Financial and business services: 21%
Retail: 20%
Education and health: 20%
Manufacturing: 9%
ICT: 6%
Key challenges
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Skills shortage in STEM sector
Long-term unemployment
Lack of employability skills
Careers advice and guidance
Basingstoke Employment and
Skills Zone
• Local partnership set up in 2013
• Brings together 15 local organisations
working in the field of skills and
employment
BESZ - structure
Steering
Committee
Promoting
Employment
sub-group
Promoting School
Engagement and
Employability
sub-group
Promoting STEM
sub-group
Steering Committee
• Brings together chairs of each sub-group
• Meets quartely
• Role:
o Overall strategic
coordination of the BESZ
o Effective communication
o Identification of crossworking projects
Promoting Employment
• Purpose: to support local residents who
are currently out of work in accessing the
relevant services to facilitate their access
or return to sustainable employment.
• Priorities:
o Job search support
o Digital inclusion
o Work readiness
Current actions (1)
• Work experience scheme
o intra-partnership scheme
o placements for local
unemployed people of up to
8 weeks
o real world of work exposure,
employability skills and
confidence building
Current actions (2)
• E-news bulletin
o E-news bulletin distributed to
over 50 local organisations
linked to skills and employment
o Bulletin provides information
on vacancies, training
opportunities, events, economic
and employment data, etc.
o All partners contribute to
bulletin
Current actions (3)
• Careers Fair
o Event for people looking for
work or career change
o Employers, employment
support agencies and
training providers
o Job search support,
workshops and
recruitment
Current actions (4)
• Developer contributions
o New developments to provide
opportunities for skills and
employment
o Construction skills
(apprenticeships, work
placements, school visits)
o Cash contribution to support
wider skills initiatives
o Commercial development pre-employment training
School engagement and
employability
• Purpose: promote stronger links between
education and business
• Priorities:
o Awareness of real world of work
o Employability skills
o Careers advice and guidance
Current actions (1)
• Skillstree Programme
o Skills and aspirations of
young people
o Education and business
cooperation
o Employability and
awareness
Current actions (1)
• Skillstree Programme: leading by example
– Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council
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Issues young people are facing
Why we got involved?
How we have helped
Benefits
20%
3/4
Did you know?
Basingstoke
Consortium
Issues
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Unable to ‘sell themselves’ positively
General lack of understanding of expectations
Poor written communication
‘Blasé’ or not interested/motivated in an
interview
• Unable to stand out
The disconnect between young people and employers
Why we got involved?
How we have helped
Mock interviews
Employability sessions
‘Words for
Works’ with Brighton
Hill School
Work experience
Careers fair
Employability skills
workshop
Benefits
Current actions (2)
• Information and guidance
training for youth workers
o Access to effective advice
and guidance in schools
varies
o Young people may prefer
less formal context
o Youth workers and leaders
have informal direct access
to young people
Current actions (3)
• Employability skills
passport
o Support young people in
identifying employability
skills
o Provide mechanism to
capture and articulate skills
Promoting STEM
• Purpose: improve image of STEM studies and
careers and raise awareness of employment
opportunities in STEM sector
• Priorities:
o Expose young people to real world of STEM
sector
o Provide opportunities for interaction between
STEM businesses and education
o Raise awareness of teachers of STEM sector
Current actions (1)
• TeenTech - Inspiring tomorrow’s innovators
o One-day event that
exposes young
people to real
engineers and
scientists
o Hands-on activities
and challenges
Current actions (2)
• Supporting advisors and
teachers
o Continuous professional
development
o Exposure to industry
o STEM resources
Conclusions and next steps
• Partnership fully established but still early days
• Further consolidation of joint working required
– move partners out of comfort zone and
ensure contribution from all
• Balancing workload and requirements of BESZ
• Priorities identified – focus on delivery
• Monitoring and review
Tack!
Gràcies!
Köszönöm!
Multumesc!
Thank you!
ANY QUESTIONS?
Question time!
• Overall, what do you think of the actions
we presented today? Do you they seem
relevant? Do you think they will have an
impact?
• What do you think of the structure of the
BESZ? What changes would you make?
Question time!
• Do you organise work experience for
people looking for work in your cities? How
do you “sell” this to your employers?
• Do you organise careers fairs in your
cities? What format do they have? How do
you achieve employer engagement?
Question time!
• What do you think of the “Skills passport”
idea? Do you think it could work? How
would you run such a scheme? What
format would you give it?
• Given the issues surrounding access to
careers advice and guidance, what
suggestions do you have to reach a
maximum number of young people?
Question time!
• Based on what you know of the TeenTech
event, what sort of follow up activities
would you organise?
• Do you have examples of Continuous
Professional Development for primary and
secondary school teachers in your cities?
How is this delivered?