The D2N2 Employability Framework: Employers and Schools Supporting Young People's Routes to Work
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View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by UDORA - University of Derby Online Research Archive The D2N2 employability framework: Employers and schools supporting young people's routes to work Item type Research Report Authors Hutchinson, Jo; Dickinson, Berni; Vickers, Rob; Hooley, Tristram Citation Hutchinson, J., Dickinson, B., Hooley, T. and Vickers, R. (2015). The D2N2 employability framework: Employers and schools supporting young people's routes to work. Nottingham: D2N2. Publisher D2N2 Downloaded 14-Dec-2017 13:52:45 Link to item http://hdl.handle.net/10545/583871 Contents Foreword ....................................................................................................... iii Executive summary ...................................................................................... iv Why have an Employability Framework? ...................................................................... iv How was it developed? .......................................................................................................... iv Current provision in schools ................................................................................................. v The Framework .......................................................................................................................... vi Implementing the Employability Framework in schools. ........................................ ix Implementing the Employability Framework strategically. .................................... ix Why have an Employability Framework? .................................................... 1 What is employability? ............................................................................................................. 2 Why now? ...................................................................................................................................... 3 How the D2N2 Employability Framework was developed ..................................... 5 The existing employability landscape in D2N2 ........................................... 7 National policy and practice .................................................................................................. 7 What will Ofsted look for? ...................................................................................................... 8 Local policy and practice ........................................................................................................ 9 Derby City ...................................................................................................................................... 9 Derbyshire County ..................................................................................................................... 9 Nottingham City ....................................................................................................................... 10 Nottinghamshire County ...................................................................................................... 10 Schools in D2N2: Findings from the survey ............................................................... 11 Partners in the provision of employability opportunities ....................................... 13 Employability Challenges .................................................................................................... 16 The D2N2 Employability Framework .......................................................... 19 Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 19 The Framework ........................................................................................................................ 20 Goals ............................................................................................................................................. 20 Enablers ...................................................................................................................................... 23 Actions ......................................................................................................................................... 23 Impacts ........................................................................................................................................ 26 In summary ................................................................................................................................ 27 Implementing the Employability Framework in schools .......................... 28 What structures are needed? ............................................................................................ 29 Self-evaluation and action planning ............................................................................... 31 The Employability Framework Audit Too ..................................................................... 34 Establishing the basics ......................................................................................................... 35 Targets and indicators of success .................................................................................. 36 Strategic implementation ..................................................................................................... 36 Final words ................................................................................................... 42 References ................................................................................................... 43 Appendix One: Consultations..................................................................... 45 Inception & base-lining / scoping .................................................................................... 45 Employers ................................................................................................................................... 45 Education .................................................................................................................................... 45 Providers of careers or employability services: ........................................................ 46 Additional consultations ....................................................................................................... 46 Employability Task Group ................................................................................................... 47 Appendix Two: school survey results ...................................................... 48 Appendix Three: Case Studies ................................................................... 58 Employer Intelligence Programme, Bulwell Academy .......................................... 59 E.ON Energy Challenge, The Nottingham Emmanuel School .......................... 61 Inspiring girls to take up a career in engineering, Heanor Gate Science College ......................................................................................................................................... 63 Mansfield 2020 Business Breakfast Meeting ............................................................ 65 Me2Work programme, Garibaldi College .................................................................... 67 Mock Interviews with employers, Derby Moor Community Sports College 69 Rolls-Royce Learning and Career Development Centre, da Vinci Community College ............................................................................................................... 70 What Next? Newark and Sherwood careers event. ............................................... 73 Work experience and employer engagement: Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Ashbourne, Derbyshire. ...................................................................................... 75 Year 10 HE experience day, Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise Academy ........... 77 Appendix Four: Proposed Implementation Plan ....................................... 79 Foreword The D2N2 area has one of the fastest growing and well balanced economies in the UK and there are real concerns about the supply of appropriately qualified employees to enable the local economy to sustain growth as was highlighted in the D2N2 Skills for Growth Strategy. We have long had high levels of youth unemployment locally and in the UK as a whole whilst many employers have voiced concerns about the employability skills and work readiness of young people leaving our schools, colleges and universities. The D2N2 LEP have quite rightly put skills at the top of their agenda because without having a good supply of skilled people we will not be able to drive forward the economic prosperity that our two cities and counties deserve. The “employability skills” asked for by the eight priority sectors whose growth and development are essential to continue to drive economic growth of the D2N2 area are almost identical yet we still have a substantial mismatch between the employability skills of those young people leaving our schools and post-16 training programmes, regardless of whether they plan to go on to higher education or go directly into employment, and the skills being sought by employers. For a successful local economy, businesses and schools/colleges need to work far more closely together – we need each other. I see a clear analogy between the way institutions and business should work together and how a supply chain works in manufacturing industry, where partnership working between companies in the supply chain ensures a win-win outcome. The D2N2 Employability Framework provides the methodology