Championing Careers Derby TECHNICAL REPORT Dr Deirdre Hughes OBE, Karen Adriaanse, Dan Gray, Chris Percy, Martin Rogers & Charlotte Thurston February 2020 2 Championing Careers Derby: Technical Report Acknowledgments dmh associates We are very grateful to Rachel Quinn, Head In 2008, Dr Deirdre Hughes OBE of People & Skills, D2N2 Local Enterprise established dmh associates to Partnership and Iain Peel, People Directorate, encourage collaboration and fresh Derby City Council, for commissioning this thinking in careers, education and independent research on behalf of the skills policy, research and practice. The Post-16 Steering Group and Opportunity outcomes from the organisation’s work Area Board. In particular, we are greatly are designed to inform and influence indebted to the Post-16 Steering Group, policies, research and practice in the UK, chaired by Kate Martin, Vice Principal Derby Europe and internationally. College, supported by Pete Sloan (SDSA), who encouraged this research project, Our expertise includes: consultancy, without their support the findings would evaluation, evidence and impact not have come to fruition. We also wish to assessment, literature reviews, thank Neil Wilkinson, Executive Headteacher, qualitative and quantitative research, The Bemrose School and other Derby digital and labour market intelligence headteachers/principals for their support. / information (LMI). We provide a full Also, special thanks to Jacqui Kinch, Careers range of activities each tailored to meet and Enterprise Co-ordinator (Schools) and specific organisational or individual Berni Dickinson Careers and Enterprise Co- needs. ordinator (Employer Engagement) for their invaluable assistance in disseminating online This project was undertaken in surveys and chairing meetings with Careers association with Dan Gray, Senior Leaders and the Derby Enterprise Adviser Lecturer, Youth and Careers Team, Network. Nottingham Trent University who led on head teacher and governor surveys and Most importantly, we wish to thank all of the interviews and the charity Education students, parents/carers, head teachers, and Employers Research (EER) who careers leaders, subject teachers, education conducted an employer survey and and employer partnerships, local employers, telephone interviews with small to local community / voluntary groups and Derby medium-sized enterprises. City Council staff who contributed to the research. Finally, a personal note of gratitude to those young people from across Derby - © dmh associates 2020 those who kindly shared their perceptions and personal views of careers, choices and insight to their future prospects – a special thank you! Contact: Dr Deirdre Hughes, Research Programme Director 8 Rose Duryard, Lower Argyll Road, Exeter, EX4 4PB Telephone: 0044(0) 7533 545057 Email: [email protected]. Visit: http://deirdrehughes.org/ Twitter: @deirdretalks Championing Careers Derby: Technical Report 3 Table of Contents Acknowledgments ....................................................................................................................3 Technical Report ..................................................................................................................... 6 1.0 Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 6 Chapter 1 ................................................................................................................................ 8 2.0 Local context ..................................................................................................................... 8 Skills, careers and choices in a changing economy .............................................................. 8 Future challenges and the potential for collaborative ambition ............................................. 8 The joint role of education, employers and other agencies in broadening horizons ................9 An emerging consensus: high quality careers support services ...........................................10 Growing potential to draw on high quality Labour Market Intelligence (LMI) .........................10 Key features of Derby’s current socio-economic context ...................................................... 12 3.0 Derby Schools and Colleges: Careers Capacity and Delivery ...............................................22 Primary schools: Career-related learning ............................................................................23 Secondary schools/academies and colleges. .....................................................................24 Head teacher perspectives .................................................................................................24 Governor perspectives .......................................................................................................30 Careers Leader perspectives ............................................................................................... 31 Teacher perspectives .........................................................................................................46 Derby College perspectives ................................................................................................50 4.0 Student and parent/carer voices .......................................................................................52 Vulnerable young people ...................................................................................................58 Careers capacity and impact: SEND ....................................................................................58 Parent/carer voices ............................................................................................................62 5.0 Employer Engagement ......................................................................................................65 Employer perspectives: Online survey results .................................................................... 66 Telephone interviews: Results ............................................................................................70 Young people’s state of work readiness .............................................................................. 71 6.0 Other city-wide stakeholder voices ...................................................................................73 7.0 Chapter 2 - Vision: Strategy 2020-2025 ............................................................................78 Key Features: Recommendations and Actions .....................................................................83 Appendices .............................................................................................................................95 Appendix 1: Derby Schools, Academies and Colleges who contributed to the research .........95 Appendix 2: List of key stakeholder organisations who also contributed to the research ......95 Appendix 3: Funding 2019/20 ........................................................................................... 96 Chapter 2: Endnotes .............................................................................................................. 98 4 Championing Careers Derby: Technical Report List of figures Figure 1:The gender divide in STEM by age .............................................................................................9 Figure 2: LMI example. ....................................................................................................................... 10 Figure 3: Undersupply of labour in D2N2 region ....................................................................................11 Figure 4: Oversupply of labour in D2N2 REGION .....................................................................................11 Figure 5: Shifting skills for assemblers- Source D2N2 ............................................................................11 Figure 6: 2017/18 Level 2 apprentices in D2N2 by sector ........................................................................11 Figure 7: Employee jobs by industry (2018, ONS Business Register & Employment Survey) .......................13 Figure 8: Key economic data for Derby ................................................................................................. 14 Figure 9: Level of qualification by age ad region ....................................................................................15 Figure 10: Derby Ofsted results over time (Secondary phase education) ................................................. 16 Figure 11: NEET rates 2016-17 – 2018-19 ............................................................................................... 18 Figure 12: Adult versus teenage unemployment by LA ........................................................................... 19 Figure 13: Derby claimant count ..........................................................................................................20 Figure 14: 7 ward cohort of Derby childrens’ most popular career choices by gender ............................... 23 Figure 15: Institution types interviewed ...............................................................................................24 Figure 16: Careers activity funding by school ........................................................................................ 35 Figure 17: Published careers policy ...................................................................................................... 36 Figure 18: Examples