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Skills and Employability Service
Briefing on Schools’ and Colleges’
Responsibilities for
Independent and Impartial Careers
Guidance
29th April 2014 at the Mercure Hotel, Hollingbourne
The Kent model of career
education and guidance
An innovative local response to
national policy
Tristram Hooley
(Reader in Career Development)
www.derby.ac.uk/icegs
Remember this?
Hooley, T. (2012) Progression in Kent: Schools
taking charge. Maidstone: Kent Country Council
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0545/243596
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What we’ve been doing
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Going back to the 10 case studies in Progression in Kent
Survey of 33 schools
Analysis of recent policy and research in the area.
New publication planned for May 2014.
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What the Government think the problem is…
“You've got to get out there
and find people, win them
over, get them to raise
aspirations, get them to think
they can get all the way to the
top. "
David Cameron
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…erm… but…
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closure of Aimhigher
cuts to the WP budget
closure of Connexions as a national service
loss of funding for Education Business Partnerships
loss of the statutory duty for work-related learning
loss of the statutory duty for career education
poorly framed and much criticised new duty for career
guidance
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So what has happened?
 A postcode lottery.
 Some good, some bad, some indifferent
provision.
 A lot of reports criticising government
policy.
 But…
 Good practice is persuasive
 You can’t keep a good idea down!
 Nature abhors a vacuum.
 There is still policy and debate in
this area.
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Cutting out the middle man
‘For young people reflecting on which
career path to follow no information is
as valuable, no inspiration so
powerful as the testimony of those at
the front line of business. That is why
the new careers guidance produced
by my colleague Matt Hancock is all
about cutting out the middle man and
getting inspirational speakers in front
of students to spark their ambitions.
Students can’t aspire to lives they’ve
never known. So we need business
people to visit schools, engage and
inspire.’
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New statutory guidance
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Schools should help every pupil to develop high aspirations and consider a
broad and ambitious range of careers.
Schools have a duty to secure independent career guidance for all year 8-13
pupils.
Guidance should be impartial.
Guidance should also be embedded in a clear framework.
Build strong links with employers and other stakeholders from the world of
work and post-secondary learning.
Access to a range of activities and career informants.
A website is not enough.
Schools should work with local authorities.
Schools’ can measure their effectiveness in this area both through Ofsted
inspections and through the destinations of their pupils.
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What is wrong with the statutory guidance
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Loose
Weak on career education
Where are the careers professionals?
Ignores existing quality assurance
Poor accountability
But
 It doesn’t stop you from doing anything!
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Employers are not the whole picture
“If employer contributions are to be effective,
they require logistical support, curriculum
space, and receptive schools and young
people. They also need to be an integral part
of properly planned, delivered and reviewed
careers education and guidance programmes
run by schools.”
Careers Sector Stakeholder Alliance
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Designing school based careers programmes
Career development is a learning activity
which requires the acquisition of new skills,
knowledge and meta-cognitive skills.
There are lots of activities that schools can
do to support career development.
But, it is most effective if you move away
from activities and design progressive
programmes.
Such programmes need to link to the
curriculum and students wider experience
in meaningful ways.
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The Kent careers system
CEIAG Networks
• Area based careers coordinators
• CEIAG Briefings
Tools for schools
• KELSI
• Employability health
check
• Annual careers plan
• CEIAG Curriculum
Framework
Local labour market
information
Kent 14-24
Learning,
Employment
and Skills
strategy
Kent Choices
Tracking
• www.kentchoices4u.com
• Kent Choices magazine
• Kent Choices 4U Live
• MyKentChoices EPortfolio
• Intended destinations
• September guarentee
• Activity survey
Support for young
people
• Kent and Medway
Progression Federation
• Kent Apprenticeships
• KIASS
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The Kent model of career education and guidance
Activities and resources
Advice and guidance
(Kent CEIAG)
Curriculum
Careers coordinator
Senior leader
buy-in
School
vision
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Themes in delivery
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Tracking and data management
Addressing the full-range of post-school options
Employers and work-experience
Use of new technologies
Collaboration
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In conclusion
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The new system has been strongly supported by a well-developed and
strategic infrastructure that exists in the county.
 The enabling framework developed by Kent County Council has allowed
careers work to thrive.
 Key to this has been the counties CEIAG Network which has allowed
practice to be shared and a common model to emerge.
Consequently many schools in Kent have evolved a similar model of schoolbased careers provision.
 The model is strongly embedded in the ethos of the schools,
appropriately resourced and highly flexible.
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Useful links
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Career Development Institute http://www.thecdi.net/
International Centre for Guidance Studies http://www.derby.ac.uk/icegs
Investors in Careers http://www.investorincareers.org.uk/
Kent CEIAG Framework is available
https://shareweb.kent.gov.uk/Documents/KELSI/Curriculum%20and%20pupil%20learni
ng/Skills%20and%20employability/CEIAG%20Framework.doc.
Kent Choices http://www.kent.gov.uk/education-and-children/college-sixth-form-andtraining
Kent Education Learning and Skills Information (KELSI) http://www.kelsi.org.uk/
Kent Integrated Adolescent Support Service (KIASS)
http://www.kelsi.org.uk/pupil_support_and_wellbeing/targeted_support/inclusion/kiass.a
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Kent and Medway Progression Federation http://kmpf.org/
Kent Training and Apprenticeships http://www.kenttrainingandapprenticeships.co.uk/
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Tristram Hooley
Reader in Career Development
International Centre for Guidance Studies
University of Derby
http://www.derby.ac.uk/icegs
[email protected]
@pigironjoe
Blog at
http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.wordpress.com
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Skills and Employability Service
Briefing on Schools’ and Colleges’
Responsibilities for
Independent and Impartial Careers
Guidance
29th April 2014 at the Mercure Hotel, Hollingbourne