Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018

Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-20171 Skills for Employment

In 2015, County Council introduced a £2.4 million ‘Skills for Employment’ programme to run until 2018. The main objectives of the programme are to:

Align skills provision more effectively with the needs of local businesses.

Increase and strengthen engagement between businesses and education providers in Warwickshire.

Improve advice and information for young people, parents, education and business about the local labour market, career and employment opportunities, and the range of options open to young people.

Improve the ‘journey’ of young people moving from education to work and those not in work by ensuring support is as joined-up and effective as possible.

Measures of success include reducing the number of young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET), and increasing the number of school and college leavers recruited by business.

By the end of 2017, grants worth more than £1.5 million were awarded to Warwickshire secondary and special schools, colleges and several businesses working with an education partner.

By July 2017, 20,000 activities had been funded and that figure is forecast to rise to 30,000 by July 2018. By the end of 2017, around 600 businesses had engaged in this funded activity with our schools and colleges.

2 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 There were four types of grant:

1) Match-funded grants worth up to £3,000.

2) Major grants worth between £20,000 and £40,000.

3) Build A Business Network grants worth up to £3,000 introduced in autumn 2016 for schools to establish a new group of at least 10 businesses to work with.

4) Skills Challenge introduced in summer 2017 worth up to £40,000 to enable business/education partnerships to address a specific sectoral or geographical Skills challenge

This report summarises the grants awarded to schools, colleges and business/ education partnerships and the activity funded.

NB The following acronyms are used in this summary: NEET: Not in employment, education or training. SEND: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. KS: Key Stage. HE: Higher education.

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February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide Live-n-Learn employability programmes for 400 students in years 7-10. Provide vocational taster visits to a FE College for year 10 students at risk of becoming NEET and also STEM-focused visits to a university for years 9 and10 from families with no history of going to HE, and pupil premium students.

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase Careers Development Institute membership. Provide three additional Careers workshops. Provide five visits for year 10 students to different higher education providers.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase of Application of STEM subjects in the workplace workshop. Provide vocational tasters for students at 2 FE colleges.

October 2016: £3,000 Build a Business Network grant

Major Grant 2017: One of two schools receiving support from a £24,000 Schools Partnership project providing DfE-approved alternative provision to build character, resilience and self-confidence in young people who respond to a different way of learning. Provides BTEC level 1 qualification.

Also one of five schools to benefit from a £35,206 project to raise students’ achievement, aspirations and self-confidence, and encourage them to pursue Design and Technology-related Careers.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Buy in events showing year 9 pupils how STEM subjects are applied in the workplace. Provide vocational taster trips to 2 FE colleges.

2017/18 Skills Challenge grant: benefitted from £31, 244 grant. See page 48 for details.

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February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance to year 12 including advice on apprenticeships.

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for year 12.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for over 100 students.

Major Grant 2017: One of two schools benefitting from a £22,000 project, Business to Education Connectivity, delivered by the ‘Entrepreneur in Residence’ for University to improve connectivity between education and business.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase Careers guidance for year 12.

More than 20,000 Careers and employability activities were funded for young people in the 2015/16 and 2016/17 academic years.

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October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide external service to develop new or additional programmes and policies related to Careers guidance, employability, enterprise and education/ business links.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for year 12 students at the start of the year and again at Easter.

Ashlawn School

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for years 11 and 12.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for 280 year 10 students with particular focus on those at risk of becoming NEET.

Major Grant 2017: One of five schools benefitting from a £46,923 project, Caring for your Career, working with year 11 and 12 students to develop skills needed to become Health and Care professionals. Employers taking part in the programme and working with students include NHS employers, GP Practices and local private care providers.

2017/18 Skills Challenge grant: Benefitted from a £38,508 grant. See page 48 for details.

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June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for year 11 students. Provide group sessions with year 8 and 9 for guidance on GCSE choices. Organise and deliver a Careers fair for year 11 students. Organise work experience for 220 year 10 students involving an increased number of local businesses.

October 2016: £3,000 Build a Business Network grant.

Major Grant 2016: £38,400 Employable Me programme to support the employability needs of all year 11 students to make them more aware of the skills that would improve their employablility. The aim was to reduce NEETs for this cohort from 5% to 3%. Teachers were also trained to be able to embed the programme in the curriculum.

Major Grant 2017: £38,600 Building the dream and challenging mental health programme to improve year 11 students’ employability opportunities. The project will do this through building self-esteem, increasing student awareness of self-concept and addressing mental health issues.

Also one of five schools benefitting from a £46,923 project, Caring for your Career, working with year 11 and 12 students to develop skills needed to become Health and Care professionals. Employers taking part in the programme and working with students include NHS employers, GP Practices and local private care providers.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide vocational tasters at local college or businesses. part-fund staff supporting vulnerable pupils on work placements. follow up pupil destinations and set up alumni network.

2017/18 Skills Challenge grant: Benefitted from £33,000 grant. See page 48 for details.

Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 7 and Sixth Form College

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide Careers guidance for years 10 and 11 students.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide five enterprise days for years 7 to 10 plus year 12, to develop business awareness, development of employability skills and financial awareness.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide Enterprise Day opportunities to years 7,8,9,10 and 12 to develop their employability skills plus business and financial awareness.

2017/18 Skills Challenge grant: Benefitted from a £38,508 grant. See page 48 for details.

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February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Create Careers hub for years 11-13 by expanding office and equipment.

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Employ career hub advisor for longer periods to enable year 12 and 13 students to receive support.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for year 7 to 13 students. Organise trips to colleges in Warwickshire.

Major Grant 2017: One of several schools to benefit from £40,000 STEM project, Employment Skills, which provided a wide-ranging employability skills programme involving students, teachers, parents and businesses. For example, year 12 students from 11 schools participated in a three day residential STEM- focused ‘bootcamp’ where they benefitted from support on CV building, social media profiling, interview techniques and specific business skills including team-working and presenting.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase Careers advice for pupils across years 7 to 13. Provide visits for years 12 and 13 to universities.

Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 9 Brooke School

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Introduce an allotment to enable school to grow fruit and vegetables for the school café, as well as support development of practical employability skills.

Major Grant 2017: One of six special schools benefitting from a £40,000 Career Hive project to improve connectivity, understanding and the challenges between businesses and SEND students or an Education Health and Care (EHC) plan. The Hive will be a central hub bringing the stakeholders together including parents, supported-employment providers, businesses and young disabled people who are in work, to inspire young people to see employment as an achievable goal.

We forecast 10,000 more activities have been funded by 2017/18 grants making the total more than 30,000 since 2015.

10 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 Campion School

February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Broker and check impact of work placements for years 10-12 Launch alumni organisation to create positive role models (especially for STEM) and act as mentors. October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase support to organise work experience opportunities. Purchase new or additional licences for computer-aided Careers support. June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase additional health and safety checks for all year 10 students for work placements. Purchase additional Careers guidance for students from years 7 to 9. October 2016: £3,000 Build a Business Network grant. Major Grant 2016: Careers Lab extended the Careers education entitlement for all students in years 7-13 and in year 6 of two local primary schools. Every Key Stage 4 student with social or emotional barriers and/or at risk of NEET received enhanced support and high-quality work-experience. Also one of several schools to benefit from a £40,000 STEM project that included a residential Careers ‘bootcamp’ at the University of . Major Grant 2017: One of several schools benefitting from Changing Futures, a £21,180 project taking young people at high risk of becoming NEET to being accredited as employable. It will draw on business connections and networks to provide the missing links and build a bridge from education to employment for most vulnerable young people. June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide external Careers events and information on vocational opportunities for years 9 to 13 with priority given to pupils who are less engaged or at risk of becoming NEET. Provide Institute of Engineering and Technology STEM events with links into employment opportunities for all Year 7 to 10 pupils. 2017/18 Skills Challenge grant: Benefitted from a £40,000 grant. See page 48 for details. 2017/18 Bursary: Benefitted from £6,000 bursary (which will be paid for another two years) to become a Digital School House. See page 51.

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February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase Careers software package licence. Purchase supply cover to enable provision of Careers guidance e.g. extra Careers guidance for targeted year 12 students. Fund new Careers event. Fund supply cover for staff tracking and intervening to prevent students being NEET in year 11 or on leaving school.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase new Careers guidance for sixth form. Purchase of new Careers guidance for years 7-11. Contribute to funding staff supporting vulnerable students. Purchase support to organise work experience opportunities. October 2016: £3,000 Build a Business Network grant. Major Grant 2017: £21,232 project, STEM – Improving Connectivity, will support year 9 and 10 students who are at most risk of not gaining work when they leave formal education. The school will work with BMW on a STEM- based project to develop their skills and knowledge which will increase their employability. Also one of five schools benefitting from a £46,923 project, Caring for your Career, working with year 11 and 12 students to develop skills needed to become Health and Care professionals. Employers are taking part in the programme and working with students include NHS employers, GP practices and local private care providers. June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide Careers events for year 10 to 13 pupils with local businesses to discuss apprenticeships and jobs. Provide Careers guidance on routes into jobs from expert Careers advisors. Part-fund Careers Co-ordinator achieving Careers Mark award. 2017/18 Bursary: Benefitted from £6,000 bursary (which will be paid for another two years) to become a Digital School House. See page 51.

12 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Prepare for Careers Mark membership. Provide additional Careers guidance for year 7-11 students Fund visits to the Skills Show and the Coventry & Warwickshire LEP Careers Fair. Provide vocational taster option for students during a ‘Next Steps event’.

Major Grant 2017: One of eight schools benefitting from Skills for Industry, a £35,206 project to develop students’ skills and knowledge, raise their achievement, aspirations and self-confidence, and increase their interest in local Design and Technology-related Careers.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide Careers events for years 7 to 11. Purchase Careers advice sessions. Follow-up pupil destinations. Provide encounters with business.

Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 13 Grange School Specialist School & Science College

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for year 12. Extend the role of work experience co-ordinator to include years11-13.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for year 12 students. Provide tailored support to year 13 students. Broker opportunities for employers to take on students as apprentices to create an exit pathway for year 13 students leaving the school.

October 2016: £3,000 Build a Business Network grant.

Major Grant 2017: £40,000 to develop and operate a café providing employment pathways and weekly work placements for students in the Catering and Hospitality industry. SEND students and disability (SEND) will have the opportunity to study BTEC or City and Guilds qualifications.

Also one of six special schools benefitting from a £40,000 Career Hive project to improve connectivity and understanding between businesses and SEND students or an Education Health and Care (EHC) plan. The Hive will be a central hub bringing the stakeholders together including parents, supported employment providers, businesses and young disabled people who are in work, to inspire young people to see employment as an achievable goal.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Fund 3 members of staff for training in Systematic Instruction so they can provide additional support preparing all post-16 pupils for work and independent living.

14 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 Harris Church of Academy

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for years 7-11.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for years 7-11 Support organisation of work placements for students. Fund Health and Safety checks for students on work placements.

October 2016: £3,000 Build a Business Network grant.

Major Grant 2017: One of eight schools benefitting from a £35,206 project, Skills for Industry, to develop students’ skills and knowledge, raise their achievement, aspirations and self-confidence, and increase their interest in local Design and Technology-related Careers.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide Careers guidance to all year 10 pupils. Purchasing work experience licences for all year 10.

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October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase licence for computer-aided Careers support. Provide Careers guidance for year 9 to 11 students. Provide vocational taster days for year 11 students. Follow up student destinations post-16 and post-18 to inform the quality of Careers advice and reduce the number who become NEET.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide targeted Careers guidance for years 10 and 11 students.

October 2016: £3,000 Build a Business Network grant.

Major Grant 2016: Benefitted fromAspire to Achieve, a £34,265 employability project involving Triton Showers and several other businesses for vulnerable, low-aspiration year 10 and 11 students who were most at risk of becoming NEET.

Also one of five schools benefitting from a £46,923 project, Caring for your Career, working with year 11 and 12 students to develop skills needed to become Health and Care professionals. Employers taking part in the programme and working with students include NHS employers, GP practices and local private care providers.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to:  Provide personal guidance for year 10 with priority for pupil premium, free school meals and SEND pupils/ and to support 11 in applying for apprenticeships, develop their employability skills and create CVs.  Attend Skills Show with year 9 students and run Careers Fair in school for year 10 pupils and parents.  Follow up pupil destinations.

16 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 Henley-in-Arden School

February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Augment current employability programme and embed it as part of day-to- day teaching. Provide off-site visits to employers. October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide Careers events days for years 7 to 10 students. Develop new Careers hub. Purchase licence for computer-aided Careers support for use with years 7-9. June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Enable staff to gain Careers-related vocational qualification at level six or above. Provide Careers guidance to advise all students in years 8, 10 and 11 about career and further education options. Provide vocational tasters at local college or businesses in particular sectors and organise specialist speakers from niche industries to extend students’ knowledge of different pathways. October 2016: £3,000 Build a Business Network grant. Major Grant 2017: One of two schools receiving support from £24,000 Schools Partnership project providing DfE-approved alternative provision to build character, resilience and self-confidence in young people who respond to a different way of learning. Provides BTEC level 1 qualification. Also benefitting from £39,700 Mapping my Future project which aims to improve the transition of young people from education to work in the Hospitality and Tourism industries by linking the expertise of a school, a FE college, engagement specialist agency, and local employers. June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide vocational taster trips for students in a range of sectors. Arrange practice interviews for students in a range of career areas. Organise work experience. Broker local business links and bring in guest speakers. 2017/18 Skills Challenge grant: Benefitted from a £30,000 grant. See page 49 for details.

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February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase licence for computer-aided Careers support. Provide new Careers events in school. Provide Careers guidance.

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase licence for computer-aided Careers support. Organise Careers events. Provide Careers guidance.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers events and job insight programmes. Purchase support to organise work experience opportunities. Follow up student destinations and establish an alumni network.

October 2016: £3,000 Build a Business Network grant.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to:  Engage businesses in Career Insight programme.  Provide additional support for pupils with special needs.  Introduce work shadowing and experience for years 12 and 13.  Organise work experience.

2017/18 Skills Challenge grant: Benefitted from a £30,000 grant. See page 49 for details.

18 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 School and Sixth Form

February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide extra Careers guidance for year 12 students including production of videos on interview techniques. Follow up destinations of former students and create an alumni network.

September 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase workshops for year 8 and 9 students to raise their aspirations and help them understand their interests.

Major Grant 2017: One of two schools benefitting from a £22,000 project, Business to Education Connectivity, delivered by the ‘Entrepreneur in Residence’ for to improve connectivity between education and business.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Support achievement of Level 6 diploma in Careers by Careers lead staff member. Arrange for graduate alumni and local young professionals to visit to speak about their Careers.

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February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Work with Jaguar Land Rover to develop employability skills and raise aspirations. Provide new range of work placements for years 10 and 12 students including one-to-one support to help them find placements. October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase support to organise work experience opportunities. Puchase Careers and employer-engagement support. June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Prepare for Quality Award in Careers education, information and guidance. Purchase Careers guidance for year 11 students with particular focus on those most at risk of becoming NEET. Major Grant 2017: £30,000 Professional Services project to set up a student- run, on-site creative business solutions hub providing business and professional services within and outside the school setting. Students will gain experience of the business and professional services sector. They will develop a deeper understanding of the employment needs of Care, Culture, Tourism, Hospitality and Digital and Creative industries. Major Grant 2017: One of eight schools benefitting from a £35,206 project, Skills for Industry, to develop students’ achievement, aspirations and self- confidence, and increase their interest in local Design and Technology-related Careers. June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase mentor for 10 students once a week for 11 weeks targeted at students at risk of exclusion , becoming NEET, who are disadvantaged or achieving well below expectations so may not access the future training and employment opportunities of which they are capable. Purchase STEM events to raise the profile of employment in the sector and build links with local STEM employers as part of a STEM fair. Provide personal guidance for year 9 and 10 students at risk of exclusion or who are making poor progress due to low aspirations. 2017/18 Bursary: Benefitted from £6,000 bursary (which will be paid for another two years) to become a Digital School House. See page 51.

20 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 King Edward Grammar School

February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase licence for computer-aided Careers diagnostic package for use by all year 10 students.

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase licence for computer-aided Careers diagnostic package for use by year 10 students. Fund membership of Career Development Institute.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide licence for computer-aided Careers diagnostic package for use by year 10 students. Support professional development of the Careers Co-ordinator.

October 2016: £3,000 Build a Business Network grant.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase Careers diagnostic tool for completion by all year 10. Extend programme of Careers guidance for years 7 to 9. Hold a Careers and job insight day for years 8 to 9.

2017/18 Bursary: Benefitted from £6,000 bursary (which will be paid for another two years) to become a Digital School House. See page 51.

Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 21 King Edward Sixth Form College

February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for year 12 and13 students.

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase additional Careers guidance for year 12 and 13 students.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for year 12 students.

October 2016: £3,000 Build a Business Network grant.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide Careers guidance for high priority year 12 pupils e.g. SEND, early leavers, disengaged or not going to university. Follow up pupil destinations.

22 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 Kingsbury School

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance and establish a new Careers hub.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Fund coach travel to Careers events such as the National Skills Show. Support the most vulnerable students on work experience placements. Provide additional Careers guidance.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide Careers guidance for pupils with most need. Fund staff to support visits to Careers events. Fund transport to Career events.

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February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Fund additional Careers guidance for year 12 students. Organise new work experience placements for year 11 students.

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional days of Careers guidance. Provide additional employability workshops for year 10.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for year 11 students. Fund an Enterprise and Employability conference for year 10 students.

October 2016: £2,500 Build a Business Network grant.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Part-fund full day Skills workshop for all 120 year 8 pupils covering employability skills including: communication, presentations skills, team work, ability under pressure and logical thinking. Part-fund full day Career Taster for all 120 Year 10 students covering skills and information on: potential career paths, the skills that employers are looking for e.g. time management, decision making, leadership and creative thinking. Part-fund full day Leadership and Interview Skills workshop for all 119 year 11 covering: prioritising decisions, thinking outside the box, how to behave in an interview, understanding the core questions and format of a job interview and how practice can confidence and competence.

24 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 Midland Academies Trust

February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Roll out Investors in Careers to three more schools. Provide extra one-to-one Careers advice for year 12 students, extra one-to- one Careers advice for SEND in years 9-11, and an extra Careers event in all schools for year 11 students. Provide vocational taster days at college for year 11 students. Purchase additional tracking of destinations at age 16 and 18.

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance to year 11. Fund an enterprise and employability conference for year 10 students.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide Careers guidance for year 10 students at The Academy and The George Eliot. Purchase additional Careers events to support the Right Choices programme at The George Elliot and Your Future: Your Choice at . Support vocational tasters for year 10 and 11students. Contribute to funding staff supporting SEND students on work experience at The George Eliot and The Nuneaton Academy.

October 2016: £9,000 Build a Business Network grant.

Major Grant 2017: and the Nuneaton Academy are two of eight schools benefitting from a £35,206 project, Skills for Industry, to develop students’ achievement, aspirations and self-confidence, and increase their interest in local Design and Technology-related Careers.

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February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Fund Careers staff to prepare for Investors in Careers Award and level 4 Careers qualification for new member of staff. Provide additional Careers guidance for those at risk of NEET in years 11-13.

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance. Enrol learners in Xing Academy to set up and run a smoothie business.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide an annual networking event with local employers. Attract local business support for Careers events. Organise coffee mornings and engage parents of students at high risk of becoming NEET. Purchase additional Careers guidance for year 12 students. Enrol students in Xing Academy. Fund level 1-3 Food Hygiene and Social Enterprise qualifications. Organise vocational taster days in different businesses. Support students who wish to pursue and secure an apprenticeship.

October 2016: £3,000 Build a Business Network grant.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Fund a 6 week taster course at a local garage for several pupils. Provide external visits to a range of events and hold an apprenticeship event in school for years 10 to 13.

26 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 Nicholas Chamberlaine School

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for year 11 students and those at risk of NEET in year 10. Support year 10 students to engage with Icould and Plotr Careers websites. Provide group sessions for year 8 students to support their options choice. June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for year 11 students. Provide new Careers events.

Major Grant 2016: One of four schools which benefitted from Aspire to Achieve, a £34,265 employability programme involving Triton Showers and several other businesses for vulnerable, low-aspiration Year 10 and Year 11 students, most at risk of NEET. Major Grant 2017: One of eight schools benefitting from a £35,206 project, Skills for Industry, to develop students’ achievement, aspirations and self- confidence, and increase their interest in local Design and Technology-related Careers. Also one of five schools benefitting from a £46,923 project, Caring for your Career, working with year 11 and 12 students to develop skills needed to become Health and Care professionals. Employers taking part in the programme and working with students include NHS employers, GP Practices and local private care providers. June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide Careers guidance for year 12 students, year 8 option talks and year 11 with one-to-one progression interviews. Fund visit for all year 10 the Skills Show. Renew Fast Tomato licence. Fund visit by all year 12 to a UCAS conference. June 2017: £3,000 Build a Business Network grant. 2017/18 Skills Challenge grant: Benefitted from a £38,508 grant. See page 48 for details. Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 27

February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide Fast Tomato activity for year 9 students to help students choose Key Stage 4 options. Fund level 6 qualification for Careers manager. Provide additional Careers guidance for priority year 11 and 12 students.

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide Fast Tomato activity for years 8 and 9 students. Provide additional Careers guidance for year 11 students. Arrange 30 work experience placements for Pupil Premium and vulnerable students.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide Fast Tomato activity for year 8 students. Provide additional Careers guidance for year 11students. Provide work experience placements for Pupil Premium and vulnerable students. Follow up student destinations and set up an alumni.

October 2016: £3,000 Build a Business Network grant.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase 20 days Careers guidance for year 11. Fund risk assessments and support work placements for Pupil Premium pupils. Follow up destinations. Set up an alumni network.

28 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 & Hinckley College

February 2015: £997.50 match-funded grant to: Fund achievement of level 6 qualification in Careers Guidance for Careers Advisers.

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Establish new Careers hub. Enable students to attend World Skills Show. Provide visits to six higher education providers.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Support vulnerable students on work placements. Organise vocational tasters for students.

Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 29 Oak Wood Secondary School

June 2016: £1,950 match-funded grant to: Provide initial assessment of need, advice and guidance to ensure that families are fully able to support their child to undertake full-time employment. Support individuals to ensure they are financially healthy in employment.

Major Grant 2017: One of six special schools benefitting from a £40,000 Career Hive project to improve connectivity and understanding between businesses and students with special educational needs or an Education Health and Care (EHC) plan. The Hive will be a central hub bringing the stakeholders together including parents, supported-employment providers, businesses and young disabled people who are in work, to inspire young people to see employment as an achievable goal.

More than 418 businesses were engaged in the Build a Business Network initiative bringing the total number engaged since 2015 to more than 600.

30 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 The School

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Fund preparation and assessment for Quality Award in Careers Standard.

June 2017: £1,200 match-funded grant to: Fund workplace visits to workplaces to complete risk assessments required for July work experience placements. Support business engagement and encounters.

The Queen Elizabeth Academy

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional licences for computer-aided Careers support. Fund preparation and assessment for Investors in Careers.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase Careers guidance for all year 10. Purchase Careers diagnostic software licence.

River House School

October 2015: £3,000 Build a Business Network grant to: Provide Careers guidance for eight students to assess their employability needs and options.

Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 31 Round Oak School

February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Develop new resources including IT materials suitable for SEND students.

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance. Contribute to funding of staff supporting vulnerable students on work placements.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Contribute to funding staff to support vulnerable students on work placements.

October 2016: £3,000 Build a Business Network grant.

Major Grant 2016: £39,450 catering-based employment project to provide students with the skills needed to gain paid employment in the catering industry. This included running their own PickWick oven business operating in Warwick and Leamington.

Major Grant 2017: One of six special schools benefitting from a £40,000 Career Hive project to improve connectivity and understanding between businesses and SEND students or an Education Health and Care (EHC) plan. The Hive will be a central hub bringing the stakeholders together including parents, supported-employment providers, businesses and young disabled people who are in work, to inspire young people to see employment as an achievable goal.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Fund job coach to support students in accessing vocational tasters at local colleges and in vocational sectors including health and social care, hospitality, IT, manufacturing, horticulture. Increase the numbers of students in the sixth form accessing a work experience placement.

32 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 Rugby Free School

2017/18 Skills Challenge grant: Benefitted from a £38,508 grant. See page 48 for details.

Rugby High School

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Establish a new alumni organisation, Friends of Rugby High School.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide more work experience opportunities for all year 10 and 12 students.

Major Grant 2017: One of eight schools benefitting from £35,206 project, Skills for Industry to develop students’ skills and knowledge of local businesses, raise their achievement, aspirations and self-confidence, and increase their interest in local Design and Technology-related Careers.

2017/18 Skills Challenge grant: Benefitted from a £38,508 grant. See page 48 for details.

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February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional expertise to enhance Careers support especially for those at risk of being NEET. Provide additional Careers guidance and external visits for priority students in years 7 and 8 at most risk of being NEET.

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase additional expertise to develop existing Careers programmes and policies. Extend current programme of Careers guidance for selected students in years 7 and 8.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for students in year 8. Fund year 8 Careers Discovery day to provide all students with an informative and inspiring introduction to Careers.

October 2016: £3,000 Build a Business Network grant.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide Careers guidance and motivating external visits for specific Pupil Premium and those at risk of becoming NEET. Part-fund Careers Discovery day for all year 7. Part-fund Careers Futures event for all year 8.

2017/18 Skills Challenge grant: Benefitted from a £38,508 grant. See page 48 for details.

34 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 College

February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Create a Careers hub by converting existing offices for use by students, employers and parents.

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Enhance the Careers hub and Employability Centre.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Prepare for assessment for quality award recognised by the Quality in Careers Standard. Organise work experience for students in year 10. Follow-up student destinations and continue to develop the alumni network.

Major Grant 2016: £21,131 Employability Skills project to prepare all year 10 students for employment by increasing awareness of local labour market and developing sustainable links with local businesses.

Major Grant 2017: One of eight schools benefitting from a £35,206 project, Skills for Industry, to develop students’ achievement, aspirations and self- confidence, and increase their interest in local Design and Technology-related Careers.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Broker work experience placements for 270 year 10 pupils at 81 different workplaces.

2017/18 Skills Challenge grant: Benefitted from a £35,099 grant. See page 50 for details.

St. Benedict’s Catholic High School

2017/18 Skills Challenge grant: Benefitted from a £38,508 grant. See page 48 for details.

Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 35 St. Thomas More Catholic School

February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for year 12 and year 10 students most at risk of becoming NEET. Provide a year 10 post-16 options event covering different routes to employment, including apprenticeships.

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Support year 11 students who require additional help in applying for apprenticeships. Support year 12 students who have already made it clear that they do not wish to proceed to university. Provide Careers adviser support at the National Skills Show for Year 10 students.

Major Grant 2016: One of four schools which benefitted from Aspire to Achieve, a £34,265 employability programme involving Triton Showers and several other businesses for vulnerable, low-aspiration Year 10 and Year 11 students, most at risk of NEET.

June 2017: £2,940 match-funded grant to: Purchase additional Careers guidance for years 7 to 12 including interviews for year 10. Fund visit to Skills Show for year 10 and Apprenticeship event for years 11 to 13. Follow up pupil destinations.

2017/18 Skills Challenge grant: Benefitted from a £30,000 grant. See page 49 for details.

36 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 Stratford-on-Avon College

February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for year 12 students.

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Expand Careers guidance for year 12 students.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase ‘Moving on Up’ Careers event to engage 40 businesses.

Major Grant 2017: £39,700 Mapping My Future project to increase the number of students choosing apprenticeships and Careers in the visitor economy and hospitality industry working with Henley in Arden High School, QHotels, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Pro-Active Education.

Also benefitting from £35, 209 project, Hospitality Means Business, led by Shakespeare’s England to increase the number of students choosing apprenticeships and Careers in the visitor economy and hospitality industry.

Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 37 Stratford Girls’ Grammar School

February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase licence for computer-aided Careers support to profile targeted year 11 and year 12 students new to the school. Provide additional Careers guidance for year 12 students new to the school. Provide additional Careers guidance for years 7-11 students.

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide licence for computer-aided Careers support. Provide additional Careers guidance.

October 2016: £3,000 Build a Business Network grant.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Fund all year 10 to attend What Career Live and What University events. Support all year 9 to take part in Ryman National Enterprise Challenge.

2017/18 Skills Challenge grant: Benefitted from a £38,508 grant. See page 48 for details.

38 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 Stratford-on-Avon School

February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for year 13 students not applying for university. Provide new Careers events with masterclasses from industry for year 7-11 students. Provide one-day events in school for year 10 students.

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Expand Careers guidance for year 9 and 10 students.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Prepare to achieve Quality Award. Provide additional Careers guidance for students from Year 8 upwards.

October 2016: £3,000 Build a Business Network grant.

Major Grant 2016: £40,000 Career Hub project developed a new focal point connecting students in years 8-13, teachers, more than 40 employers and parents. Face-to-face Careers guidance and multi-media Careers resources provided an exciting and innovative linking of students to local employers as well as the development of their employability skills.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Extend personal Careers mentoring and related support to 55 pupils in years 8 to 10 who are Pupil Premium, SEND or at high risk of NEET. Support included a range of activity such as external visits.

2017/18 Skills Challenge grant: Benefitted from a £30,000 grant. See page 49 for details.

2017/18 Skills Challenge grant: Benefitted from a £38,508 grant. See page 48 for details.

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February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for priority year 11 students. Provide family interviews for Pupil Premium, SEND and those at most risk of being NEET. Provide follow-up interviews for students making apprenticeship applications. Provide KS4 Options interviews for vulnerable year 9 students. Provide diagnostic interviews with targeted year 10 students. Provide ‘World of Work’ Careers talks for year 7 students.

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for year 10 and 11 students. Provide additional interviews connected to pupil apprenticeship applications.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Audit existing Careers practice to meet the standards required for Careers Award status.

October 2016: £3,000 Build a Business Network grant.

June 2017: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase additional Careers guidance for year 7 to 11 targeted at vulnerable pupils e.g. SEND and those at risk of becoming NEET. Fund support to audit and develop Careers activity. Fund Employability assemblies and PSHE day focused on Careers for year 7.

2017/18 Skills Challenge grant: Benefitted from a £37,800 grant. See page 50 for details.

40 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase Careers software package licence. Organise two days of mock interviews involving businesses for 140 year 11 students. Provide additional Careers guidance for year 11 students. Purchase Health, Safety and Insurance workplace checks for year 10 work experience placements.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide additional Careers guidance for students in Year 11. Provide new resource from Business Class for events such as Job Taster, Business Day and mock interviews for Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4. Provide additional Insurance, Health and Safety workplace checks for year 10 work experience placements.

October 2016: £3,000 Build a Business Network grant.

Major Grant 2017: One of several schools benefitting from a £21,180 project, Changing Futures, taking young people at high risk of NEET to accredited as employable. It will draw on business connections and networks to provide the missing links to build a bridge from education to employment for the most vulnerable young people.

June 2017: £2,950 match-funded grant to: Part-fund: Purchase Careers guidance for years 11 and 12. Provide employer-led interviews for all year 11. Purchase Apprenticeship event for selected pupils in year 10 to 13. Purchase Health & Safety checks for year 10 work experience placements.

2017/18 Skills Challenge grant: Benefitted from a £38,508 grant. See page 48 for details.

Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 41 Warwickshire College Group (WCG)

February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide vocational ‘Discovery days’ for students from local schools. Provide additional Careers advice including individual interviews. Purchase Essential Business Journey delivered in college to give students insight into creating their own job and boosting their employability skills.

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Provide four members of staff with level 6 qualification in career guidance and development.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Engage school learners in qualifications that could lead to a career in construction or civil engineering. Fund staffing, event costs, transport and materials to deliver: four taster events for 75 students; school liaison activities with 45 Warwickshire schools to promote the programme; promotional literature to provide information for staff, students and parents.

Major Grant 2017: £37,456 project, Building Your Future, to provide improved understanding of career pathways and opportunities within the construction industry, including civil engineering, architecture, construction management and sustainability. It aims to increase the numbers of work experience opportunities, apprenticeships and jobs within construction industry businesses in Warwickshire that are available for young people.

2017/18 Skills Challenge grant: Benefitted from a £39,100 grant. See page 49 for details.

42 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 Woodlands School

February 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Fund Secret Garden project resulting in accredited work for Diploma in Independent Living Skills.

October 2015: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Support weekly, time-tabled sessions at Southfields Care Farm. Provide weekly blocks of work experience at the care farm; collaboration with the care farm teacher to establish plans for student internships.

June 2016: £3,000 match-funded grant to: Purchase additional work placements for Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5 students.

October 2016: £3,000 Build a Business Network grant. Major Grant 2016: £33,000 to create a sustainable Care Farm providing varied vocational opportunities for a wide range of students including some with SEND, with opportunities to gain accredited qualifications. Working with Southfields Farm Ltd. Major Grant 2017: £39,825 for Laser Blazer which is an online laser cutting micro business project, aimed at providing young people with the skills, knowledge and experience to go on and gain paid employment across a number of different sectors. Students, supported by job coaches, will run their own laser cutting business, trading online as well as at craft fairs and local events. Also one of six special schools benefitting from the £40,000 Career Hive project to improve connectivity and understanding between businesses and SEND students or an Education Health and Care (EHC) plan. The Hive will be a central hub bringing the stakeholders together including parents, supported- employment providers, businesses and young disabled people who are in work, to inspire young people to see employment as an achievable goal. June 2017: £2,970 match-funded grant to: Fund staff member to complete Career Guidance and Development Level 6 Diploma.

Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 43 Major Grant projects 2016

Aston Martin Lagonda and WMG Academy for Young Engineers: £40,000 Enjoyneering developed a model of ‘sharing- collaboration­ inspiring-enjoying’ across the spectrum of engineering and manufacturing between Aston Martin and its supply chain with WMG Academy for Young Engineers. This enabled students to develop improved employability skills, communication, self- motivation, problem solving, numeracy, innovation, creativity, adaptability and responsibility. It also increased the local apprenticeships offered by Aston Martin. Avon Valley School and the Kokoro Foundation: £38,400 Employable Me delivered a programme to support the employability needs of all year 11 students to make them more aware of the skills that would make them more employable. The aim was to reduce NEETs for this cohort from 5% to 3%. Teachers were also trained in the skills and knowledge to embed the programme in the curriculum.

Campion School, Ricardo UK Ltd, Premier Inn Rugby, McDonalds Restaurants Ltd, Sydenham Primary School, Primary School: £21,025 Careers Lab extended the Careers education entitlement for all students in years 7-13 and in year 6 of two local primary schools. Every Key Stage 4 student with social or emotional barriers and/or at risk of NEET received enhanced support and high-quality work-experience.

Dare to Dream Foundation and Triton Showers: £34,265 Aspire to Achieve provided a wide-ranging employability programme involving several other businesses and schools for vulnerable, low-aspiration Year 10 and Year 11 students, most at risk of NEET. It developed employability skills required to enter the workplace and provided a full understanding of options available.

Round Oak School and Class Catering Services Ltd: £39,450.98 Employability for All established a catering-based employment project to provide students with skill needed to gain paid employment in catering industry. Includes running their own PickWick oven business operating in Warwick and Leamington.

44 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 The Smallpeice Trust and National Grid: £40,000 Employment Skills provided a wide employability skills programme involving students, teachers, parents and businesses. For example, 21 year 12 students from 11 schools participated in a 3 day residential STEM-focused ‘bootcamp’ where they benefitted from support on CV building, social media profiling, interview techniques and specific business skills including teamworking and presenting. , Pasoday Products Ltd, Stairways Midlands Ltd, Alumnet, DSI Ltd, Repairtech Ltd, Sort-IT: £21,131 Employment Skills prepared 263 year 10 students for employment by increasing awareness of the local labour market. 135 of the students secured work- experience placements in summer 2016. It established sustainable links with local businesses, and involved and engaged 91 businesses in total. A set of five Employability Skills resources was published and shared with all schools and colleges. Stratford on Avon School and In2Ambition Ltd: £40,000 Career Hub developed a new focal point connecting students in years 8-13, teachers, more than 40 employers and parents. Face to face Careers guidance and multi-media Careers resources provided exciting and innovative ways of linking students to local employment and developing their employability skills. Totem Learning: £31,449 Unlock Employability developed a multi-player employability skills game accessed on-line to help students develop their employability skills in an environment where they can apply and improve existing skills and practise new strategies in a dynamic and immersive team based environment. Specific skills featured were problem solving, decision making, teamwork, communication, and resilience. Woodlands Special School and Southfields Farm Ltd: £33,000 Community Care Farm created a sustainable Care Farm providing varied vocational opportunities for a wide range of students including some with SEND, with opportunities to gain accredited qualifications. The plan is to roll it out to more schools from 2017. A case-study is available for each 2016 project detailing the activity and impact achieved from [email protected]

Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 45 Major Grant projects 2017

The Avon Valley School and Kokoro Foundation: £38,600 Building the dream and challenging mental health is designed to improve year 11 students’ employability opportunities. The project will do this through building self-esteem, increasing student awareness of self-concept and addressing mental health issues. CVQO Ltd, and Henley-in-Arden High School: £24,287 Schools Partnership will provide DfE-approved alternative provision to build character, resilience and self-confidence in young people who respond to a different way of learning. Provides BTEC level 1 qualification.

Design and Technology Association, N.E.J. Stevenson Limited, Etone College, George Eliot School, Harris C of E Academy, Kineton High School, Nicholas Chamberlaine School, Nuneaton Academy, Rugby Free School, Southam College: £35,206 Skills for Industry aims to develop students’ skills and knowledge of local businesses, raise their achievement, aspirations and self-confidence, and increase their interest in local design and technology-related Careers.

Emerald Group, Safeline and Arhine Solutions Ltd: £21,180 Changing Futures will take a young person from being at high risk of NEET to being accredited as employable. It is different from existing work with NEETs or young people at risk of becoming NEET in Warwickshire because of its emphasis on employability and its close links with the local business community.

Exhall Grange Specialist School: £39,999.78 Exhall Café will establish and operate an on-site café, employment pathways and weekly work placements will be created for students in the Hospitality and Catering industry. Students will have the opportunity to achieve BTEC hospitality or City and Guilds qualifications.

In2Ambition, Brooke School, Exhall Grange Specialist School, Woodlands School, Oakwood School, Round Oak School, Welcombe Hills School, Woodlands School: £40,000 The Career Hive aims to improve connectivity and understanding between businesses and students with special educational needs or an Education Health and Care (EHC) plan. The Hive will be a central hub bringing the stakeholders

46 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 together including parents, supported-employment providers, businesses and young disabled people who are in work, to inspire young people to see employment as an achievable goal.

Kineton High School, Kineton Manor Care Home, British Motor Museum, PET-XI, Space -2 and others: £30,000 Professional Services will set up a student-run, on-site creative business solutions hub providing business and professional services within and outside the school setting. Students will gain experience of the business and professional services sector. They will develop a deeper understanding of the employment needs of Care, Culture, Tourism, Hospitality and Digital and Creative industries. Midland Training & Development Avon Valley School, , The Coleshill School, Hartshill School, and Nicholas Chamberlaine School: £46,923 Caring for your Career is working with years 11 and 12 students to develop skills needed to become Health and Care professionals. Employers taking part in the programme and working with students include NHS employers, GP Practices and local private care providers.

Paradise Partnership Ltd, Alcester Grammar School, Kenilworth School and Sixth Form: £21,810 Business to Education Connectivity will be delivered by a Warwickshire SME whose MD served as the ‘Entrepreneur in Residence’ for Coventry University. It will develop the business acumen of year 12 and 13 students in Alcester Grammar School and Kenilworth School and involve several major local businesses as mentors.

Shakespeare’s England, Q Hotels, Birmingham International Airport, Stratford-on-Avon College: £35,209 Hospitality Means Business aims to increase the number of young people choosing apprenticeships and Careers in the Visitor and Hospitality industry. Businesses will provide insight into career paths to illustrate the range of opportunities. It aims to reach 15 schools.

Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 47 Major Grant projects 2017

Stratford-on-Avon College, Q Hotels, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Henley-in-Arden School, and Pro-Active Education: £39,700 Mapping my Future aims to improve the transition of young people from education to work in the Hospitality and Tourism industries by linking the expertise of a school, a FE college, an employer engagement specialist agency, and local employers.

The Coleshill School and BMW: £21,232.47 STEM – Improving connectivity will support year 9 and 10 students who are at most risk of not gaining work when they leave formal education. The school will work with BMW on a STEM-based project to develop their skills and knowledge which will increase their employability.

Warwickshire College, Planet First, Prologis and BAM Construction: £37,456 Building Your Future will provide improved understanding of career pathways and opportunities within the construction industry, including civil engineering, architecture, construction management and sustainability. It aims to increase the numbers of work experience opportunities, apprenticeships and jobs within construction industry businesses in Warwickshire that are available for young people.

Woodlands School and Fab Lab @ Ironbridge: £39,825 Laser Blazer is an on-line laser-cutting micro business project to provide young people with the skills, knowledge and experience to go on and gain paid employment across a number of different sectors. Students, supported by job coaches, will run their own laser cutting business, trading online as well as at craft fairs and local events.

48 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 Skills Challenge grant 2017/18

Alcester Academy: £31, 244 To enable young people to access local and regional employment opportunities more successfully by working in partnership with Alcester Chamber of Commerce and several local businesses to develop STEM knowledge and skills. Includes Solid Works training for pupils in and computer- aided design and also the Silver Crest award which is proven to increase uptake of STEM subjects at Advanced level significantly.

Avon Valley School: £33,000 To provide vocational courses and work experience for 20 year 11 pupils who are disaffected, SEND or most at risk of becoming NEET. The aim is pupils will achieve a recognised vocational qualification to help them gain an apprenticeship offer from a participating business. Pupils attend college or work experience with a local business one afternoon per week throughout the year. Some of the businesses are keen to recruit from the school to address Skills shortages.

Campion School: £40,000 To provide understanding of career opportunities in the Construction sector, provide information on apprenticeships, and to reduce the possibility of pupils becoming a NEET. Running throughout the school year and delivered in partnership with Deeley Construction which aims to recruit at least two apprentices from the project.

Design Technology Association: £38,508 To address skills shortages in the local engineering sector by developing links between local employers and schools, promoting career and apprenticeship vacancies with a view to establishing long-term recruitment pipelines. Provided in association with Jaguar Land Rover and Severn Trent, the following schools are benefitting: Aylesford; Ashlawn; Nicholas Chamberlaine; Rugby Free School; St. Benedict’s Catholic High School; Shipston High School; Stratford-on-Avon School; Stratford Grammar School for Girls; Trinity Catholic School.

Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 49 Skills Challenge grant 2017/18

Employability UK: £30,000 To provide motivational workshops and work experience placements for year 10 pupils from 4 secondary schools in association with heating engineering specialist, Baxi, and the Coventry Building Society. The schools benefitting are: Henley-in-Arden High, Higham Lane, St. Thomas More and Stratford-on-Avon. There is a particular focus on Engineering and Finance. Realistic activities led by the businesses will include individual career action-planning and review of young people’s job applications.

Exact Logistics and Warwickshire College Group: £39,100 To develop a training programme and suite of learning materials to increase understanding of the requirements of the Logistics sector, develop students’ underpinning skills for a career in logistics, improve their work--readiness, and provide information about qualifications, career paths and progression opportunities. 45 16 to18 year olds and 30 14 to16 year olds will be involved. Exact Logistics is a palletised distribution service company exporting goods across Europe, located in Rugby.

HORIBA MIRA: £33,000 To create a strong network and work experience offer for HORIBA MIRA and MIRA Technology Park tenants by working with local schools and colleges. This will provide focused placements aligned with future job opportunities at the businesses. The offer focuses on young people with a specific interest in Engineering providing both work experience in tune with their interests and practice in the job application process typically operated by the businesses involved. Many of the work experience opportunities are ground-breaking as the park tenants have previously only worked with undergraduates and other higher level students.

50 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 Infinite Pixel and Southam College: £35,099 This project is delivered by Infinite Pixel, a Virtual Reality (VR) specialist business located in Southam, supported by Southam College. The project introduces students to VR/360 degree filming techniques and enables them to see how these skills can be used in various employment sectors such as IT and Digital, Gaming, Engineering, Media, Education and Retail. Activity includes a workshop to train teachers from the college and other local schools. Infinite Pixel aims to employ at least one Videographer apprentice in summer 2018 as a result of the project and hopes to take on more apprentices in future as the company grows and the demand for VR/360 degree films increases.

Studley High School: £37,800 Pupils aged between 10 and 16 will experience a range of STEM activities planned under a common theme and approach. As a result, they will understand more about the excellent career opportunities available within the local area and become aware of the potential to progress into jobs with degree and post-graduate level qualifications. The 14-16 year olds will interact directly with a range of local Engineering employers where hands-on experiences will help them see the types of job opportunities available in the sector.

You 42 and JBC Training Gaming Bootcamp: £33,390 A two-week summer 2017 boot camp provided the opportunity for 9 young people recruited from local schools and colleges to demonstrate their potential to local employer, You 42, which was seeking to identify future talent for recruitment. Several other local Gaming companies attended the final presentation of games developed by the young people during the bootcamp. A provisional job offer was made to one young person who will complete ‘A’ levels in summer 2018. Other businesses and young people made contacts which could lead to job offers in due course.

Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 51 Digital School House

Warwickshire County Council is investing £150,000 in this national initiative in the period 2017-2020 as the Digital sector is one of the county’s most important and fastest growing. The aims of this investment are: to give teachers additional knowledge, understanding, confidence and motivation to teach the new computing curriculum effectively; to inspire pupils to learn creative computing and become interested in a career in the industry. The four secondary schools involved provide regular workshops for their teachers and pupils and also those from local partner schools including primary. Each Digital Schoolhouse workshop leader is trained by universities and industry professionals to ensure they are right up to date with industry standards and requirements.

Match-funding of European Social Fund projects

Skills for Employment provided match-funding for these two projects running from 2017 to 2020: Positive Futures Delivered by Coventry provider, Pet X-i, this will support 780 15-24 year olds who are not in employment, education or training or who are at high risk of becoming so. Young people at risk of social exclusion are targeted and prioritised, e.g. teenage parents, looked after children, care leavers, ethnic minority learners, members of gangs, young lone parents, ex-offenders, young people with learning difficulties and disabilities or mental health conditions. The total value of the project is £1.1m within which the WCC contribution is £275,000. Collaborate to Train The project aims to engage 250 mainly small and medium size businesses to provide work experience placements, Supported Internships, Apprenticeships and interaction with schools. WCC is a strategic rather than a delivery partner providing £100,000 to the project which has a total value in excess of £2 million. Activity is delivered through a consortium comprising: Warwickshire College Group (Lead Partner); Coventry College; ; Coventry University; Coventry City Council; North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College.

52 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 Warwickshire Employability Charter

The Employability Charter is awarded to businesses, education providers and other organisations which participate in activity to develop the employability skills of young people. By March 2018, 152 organisations were awarded it including 101 businesses ranging from big businesses like Aston Martin Lagonda to SMEs and micros like Peepo Day Nursery.

More information about the charter and the list of organisations which have received it can be found at: [email protected]

An image of the charter is shown on the next page.

In April 2018, the 100th business to be awarded the Warwickshire Employability Charter was Warwick- based AME company, Contechs. The total number of charters awarded to date is 152.

Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 53 Warwickshire Employability Charter

Our vision is for every young person to have the employability skills required to secure and sustain employment in a vibrant economy where businesses are able to recruit young people more easily to meet their skills needs. By doing this, we will raise the aspirations of young people, reduce youth unemployment and address skills shortages significantly by the end of 2018.

The type of enhanced employability skills we will enable young people to develop include: adaptability, attention to detail, communication (oral and written), functional numeracy, interpersonal, meeting deadlines, negotiating, organisation, problem-solving, reliability, self-learning, self-motivation, team-working, using initiative, working under pressure.

Success will be achieved through increased collaboration between businesses, education providers and partners. For example by providing more opportunities for:

• young people to experience the world of work • young people to gain effective work experience in businesses that give them real insight into occupations they may wish to enter • businesses to recruit young people directly from schools and colleges by establishing a strong relationship based on understanding of each other’s needs • businesses, providers and partners to work together to develop new approaches and curriculum resources • employee/teacher job-swaps for short periods • businesses to visit education providers to inspire young people by speaking and/or mentoring young people • education and training leaders to be updated by Warwickshire County Council on skills and employment priorities, gaps and shortages • business leaders to be updated on changes in education and training

is committed to supporting this charter by collaborating on one or more of the above activities. A summary of our activity will be included in our organisation profile on the Skills for Employment web portal.

Warwickshire County Council is delighted to receive this commitment.

Signed Cllr Izzi Seccombe Leader of the Council

This charter is supported by:

54 Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 Businesses awarded the Charter

Aldi Frontier REPL Allelys General Haulage Ltd Gardner Denver Ltd RICOR LTD Alsters Kelly GKN Sage Green Human Resources Alume Guru You Sarina Russo Apex Recruitment IXL Events Ltd SD Studio Arlington Industries Harrison, Beale & Owen Seco Tools Ashmore Surveyors Hilton Stratford/Warwick Siemens Aston Martin Lagonda Hinckley & Rugby Building South Warwickshire NHS trust Atkins Society Sort-IT.biz Aviation Engineering Support Hoop Guy Stadium TM Balfour Beatty UK HR Dept Stagecoach Construction Services HSBC Stairways (Midlands) Brambles Nursery IBM Leadec Stepnell Ltd Bravissimo Inspired Village Warwick Summerhill Equine Burgis & Bullock Chartered Jaguar Land Rover Take-a-break Warwickshire Accountants Lambert Sales and Lettings Ltd Business Forums Ltd Leap Teen Direct Cambian Group Life Change Solutions The Arden hotel Stratford Careers in Sport Lodders Teen Direct Cartwright Hands Lovely pubs The Little Gin Company CD Pub Company MarchantCain Design Ltd The Myton Hospices Cohesion Recruitment LTD Millennium Bright Kid The RYTC Conkerz Kids Company Company The Shakespeare Birthplace Contechs Monocrome Productions Trust Cox, Costello & Horne Moor Farm Stables & The Tree Group Coventry Building Society Equestrian Centre Thomas Flavell & Sons CRB Consulting Mustard presentations Thomas Guise Solicitors CVQO National Grid Tooling Intelligence Dare2Dream Foundation North & Nimble Toolkit For Life Duggystome NFU Mutual Triumph Motorcycles Limited EMIS Care Nuneaton & North Triton Showers Warwickshire Equestrian English Care Villages TOTEM learning Centre Riding for Disabled The Emerald Group Uptime Consultant Limited Open Door Cafe Exact Logistics Wild Earth Peepo Day Nursery Fairhurst Wildlife Trust Primary Goal Fat Fluffs Young Enterprise QHotels Group Warwickshire First Project Maintenance

Summary of grant-funded activity 2015-2018 55 56