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From Care2WorkCreating Opportunities

Raising Aspirations

Barry CullenEmployability Projects Manager

Why From Care2Work?

36% of Care Leavers are NEET at age 19 as opposed to 10% of their Peers

Care Leavers often end up in low paid low skilled work or on benefits

Care leavers are 8 times less likely to go on to Higher Education

From 2009 to Now

Worked with 150 Local Authorities

Engaged with over 100 national employers

11000 young people have been engaged in employability

Local Authority Support

Helped to map employability support & services to care leavers Developed work-plans to improve where necessary the employability

offer to care leavers Helped leaving care services engage with national and local

employers Provided training in-house to social care staff now responsible for

employability support Identified areas where local authorities could offer opportuinities to

care leavers as good corporate parents e.g. Apprenticeships/Work Experience

Highlighted and disseminated good practice from across England

Hampshire

• Preserved funding for a care leavers Internship+ programme

• 20+ care leavers working for Hants CC

• Apprenticeships delivered with Catch22

Islington

• Career Start Programme has supported 200+ care leavers into employability opportunities

• Council commitment to care leavers to never have less then £85pw to live on after housing and bills

Lincolnshire

• Care Leavers Apprenticeship Scheme has supported over 50 care leavers into apprenticeships

• Work Preparation programme provides vital support to improve the employability of care leavers

Good Practice Examples

Exceeded target of 100 employers engaged through the programme

Ensured that there was a broad range of employers across different sectors in order to meet the needs of care leavers

Developed a flexible model which understood that employers and young people aren’t 1 size fits all

Tried to create opportunities that were aspirational and inspirational

We have encouraged care leavers to think “I Can Do This”

Engaging Employers

23 Hotels in England support From Care2Work Over 300 opportunities have been created for care leavers Commitment to supporting the programme matches their “Spirit to Serve” in

communities Increasing numbers of care leavers now employed as Marriott Associates 5 Hotels in Germany involved in the Willkommen programme 11 care leavers learnt German, gained work experience in England before

travelling out to Germany for work experience in Marriott Hotels 6 of the participants now employed by Marriott in England

Marriott Hotels – Home & Abroad

Premier League football clubs supporting care leavers Tottenham Hotspur Foundation’s E18HTEEN programme Arsenal in the Community’s Care Leavers Employability

Programme Chelsea FC supporting young people in Essex! Stoke City developing a programme to work with Stoke care

leavers London’s top 3 clubs now partners to Catch22 NCAS,

Goals2Work Programme funded by Comic Relief’s Sport for Change

Goals2Work will support 60 care leavers from London & Essex with football, employability and life skills training.

Premier Partnerships

Demonstrate Commitment Creating Opportunities Providing strong Support Ensuring effective Monitoring http://leavingcare.org/?page_ID=100019

Quality Mark

Employers Handbook & Awareness Session

Career Planning Workbook

A Young Person’s Guide to Employment

Benefits Guide for young people & professionals

Employer Engagement & Work Experience Toolkits

http://leavingcare.org/what_we_do/ncas_projects/from_carework_project/resources_fcw

http://leavingcare.org/what_we_do/ncas_projects/from_carework_project/resources_fcw

Toolkit & Resources

The Future???

Delivering From Care2Work across England to 2015

Catch22 AEI will ensure local opportunities for care leavers and a clear focus on apprenticeships

Working with LEPs and Chambers of Commerce to ensure strategic support and links to SMEs

Willkommen, Goals2Work, Children’s Home Project projects grown out of From Care2Work which make a real difference to care leavers

Barry CullenEmployability Projects ManagerBarry.Cullen@catch-22.org.uk

Website - www.leavingcare.orgTwitter - @NCAS_ukFrom Care2Work Mailing Listhttp://leavingcare.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=5c9a0bfa9b06a75f21c1181f4&id=a68663cfed

Thank You

Raising aspiration and sustainable job outcomes for care leavers:

Higher educationEmma Corbett

Participation Officer, The Who Cares? Trust

9th May 2013

Education is the engine of opportunity that offers all children the prospect of

transcending the circumstances of their birth and the promise of a better life.

Edward Timpson MP, Launch of the Children and Families Bill, February 2013

The Who Cares? Trust We have been looking at the education of looked-

after children and care leavers since our charity formed in 1992.

Recent publications on education Open Doors, Open Minds The H.E. Handbook Finding your way

Forthcoming analysis of local authority higher education finance policies

What the numbers say

In 2012, what percentage of looked-after children achieved five or more GCSEs at A* - C including English and mathematics?

7.2%

14.6%2.9%

What the numbers say

In 2012, there were 6,610 19 year olds who had been in care when they were 16. How many of these were in higher education?

950

43050

A brighter future?

What percentage of young people that The Who Cares? Trust spoke to said they wanted to go to university?

Over 40%

What support is out there? From local authorities

Legal duties to provide support for care leavers under the age of 25 who wish to go into higher education, including specific entitlements to vacation accommodation and a £2,000 Higher Education Bursary

From higher education institutions Under new student finance arrangements there is a clear

expectation that HEIs will provide additional support for vulnerable groups to access higher education.

Multiple routes

152 local authorities

Barking and Dagenham Barnet Barnsley Bath and North East Somerset Bedford borough Bexley Birmingham Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Bradford Brent Brighton and Hove Bristol, City of Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Calderdale Cambridgeshire Camden Central Bedfordshire5 Cheshire East5Cheshire West & Chester City Of London Cornwall Coventry Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Doncaster Dorset Dudley Durham Ealing East Riding of Yorkshire East Sussex Enfield Essex Gateshead Gloucestershire GreenwichHackney Halton Hammersmith and Fulham Hampshire Haringey Harrow HartlepoolHavering Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hillingdon Hounslow Isle Of Wight Isles Of Scilly IslingtonKensington and Chelsea Kent Kingston Upon Hull, City of Kingston Upon Thames KirkleesKnowsley Lambeth Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham LincolnshireLiverpool Luton Manchester Medway Towns Merton Middlesbrough Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newham Norfolk North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire

North Somerset North Tyneside North Yorkshire NorthamptonshireNorthumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxfordshire

Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redbridge Redcar and ClevelandRichmond Upon Thames Rochdale Rotherham Rutland Salford Sandwell SeftonSheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Gloucestershire South Tyneside

Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Helens StaffordshireStockport Stockton-On-Tees Stoke-On-Trent Suffolk SunderlandSurrey Sutton Swindon Tameside Telford and Wrekin ThurrockTorbay Tower Hamlets Trafford Wakefield Walsall Waltham ForestWandsworth Warrington WarwickshireWest Berkshire West Sussex Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Windsor and MaidenheadWirral Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York

33,288

Accrington and Rossendale College Askham Bryan College Barking College Birmingham Metropolitan College Bishop Burton College Blackburn College Blackpool and the Fylde College Bradford College Bridgwater College Broxtowe College City College Brighton and Hove City of Bath College Calderdale College Capel Manor College Carlisle College Castle College Cheshire HE Consortium Chesterfield College Cleveland College of Art and Design Colchester Institute Cornwall College Craven College Croydon College Dearne Valley College Doncaster College East Riding College Exeter College Farnborough CollegeGloucestershire College Guildford College The Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education Hartpury College Havering College Hereford College of Art Hull College

Kidderminster College Kingston Maurwood College Lakes College West Cumbria Leeds City College Leicester College Lincoln College Liverpool Community College Loughborough College City College Manchester Moulton College Myerscough College The Manchester College College of North West London New College Durham New College Nottingham New College Stamford Newcastle College North East Worcestershire College North Lindsey College Northbrook College Sussex City College Plymouth Plumpton College Plymouth College of Art and Design The Peoples College Nottingham Reaseheath College Richard Huish College Riverside College, Halton Ruskin College City of Sunderland College Solihull College Somerset College of Arts and Technology South Essex College of Further and Higher Education Sparsholt College St Helens College Stockport College Stratford-Upon-Avon College Strode College Suffolk College Surrey Regional Higher Education Consortium Sussex Coast College Hastings Sussex Downs College Swindon College Wiltshire College Salisbury

Truro and Penwith College Tyne Metropolitan College Wakefield College Warwickshire College West Thames College Westminster Kingsway College Wigan and Leigh College Wiltshire College Wirral Metropolitan College Worcester College of Technology York College Anglia Ruskin University Aston University University of the Arts London Bath Spa University Birkbeck College Birmingham City University Bishop Grosseteste University College Bournemouth University Brunel University Buckinghamshire New University The Arts University College at Bournemouth University College Birmingham University of Bath University of Bedfordshire University of BirminghamUniversity of Bolton University of Bradford University of Brighton University of Bristol Canterbury Christ Church University Central School of Speech and Drama City University, London Conservatoire for Dance and Drama Coventry University Cumbria Institute of the Arts The Courtauld Institute of Art University College for the Creative Arts University of Cambridge University of Central Lancashire University of Chester University of Chichester University of Cumbria Dartington College of Arts De Montfort University University of Derby University of Durham Edge Hill University University of East Anglia University of East LondonUniversity of Essex University of Exeter University College Falmouth Goldsmiths College Guildhall School of Music and Drama University of Gloucestershire University of Greenwich Harper Adams University College Heythrop College, University of London University of Hertfordshire University of Huddersfield University of Hull Imperial College London Institute of Education Keele University Kings College London Kingston University University of Kent Lancaster University Leeds College of Art Leeds College of Music Leeds Metropolitan University Leeds Trinity University College Liverpool Hope University Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts Liverpool John Moores University

London Metropolitan University London School of Economics and Political Science London South Bank University Loughborough University University of Leeds University of Leicester University of Lincoln University of Liverpool University of Luton Manchester Metropolitan University Middlesex University University of Manchester Newcastle University Newman University College Norwich University College of the Arts Nottingham Trent University University of Northampton University of Northumbria at Newcastle University of Nottingham Open University Oxford Brookes University University of Oxford University College Plymouth St Mark and St John University of Plymouth University of Portsmouth Queen Mary, University of London Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication

Roehampton University Rose Bruford College Royal Academy of Music Royal Agricultural CollegeRoyal College of Music Royal Holloway, University of London Royal Northern College of Music Royal Veterinary College University of Reading School of Pharmacy Sheffield Hallam University SOAS, University of London

Southampton Solent University St Georges Hospital Medical School St Martins College St Marys University College Staffordshire University University Campus Suffolk University of Salford University of Sheffield University of Southampton University of Sunderland University of Surrey University of Sussex Thames Valley University Trinity Laban University of Teesside University College London University of the West of England, Bristol University of Warwick University of West London University of Westminster University of Winchester University of Wolverhampton

University of Worcester Writtle College University of York York St John University

219 OFFA institutions

What do different HEIs offer?

dedicated website

priority access, dedicated activities

application guidance

contact from UCAS

financial advice

365 days

dedicated support

Careers & Post-Grad Support

Buttle QM

holders

0%20%40%60%80%

100%77%

89% 94%83%

95% 93% 90% 95%

70%

Differing support

No77%

Yes23%

Information provided to young people via a leaflet/poster

Lowest weekly

allowance

£20

Highest weekly allowance

£140

Highest lump sum

£10k

What can you do? Inform – help young people understand what

is available from colleges, local authority and higher education institutions.

Question – it is a complicated area, but there are lots of people to ask for help.

Aspire – it is vital that our expectations match the potential of the young people we work for.

More information

Open Doors, Open Mindswww.thewhocarestrust.org.uk/pages/reports-and-res-open-doors-open-minds-803.html

The H.E. Handbookwww.thewhocarestrust.org.uk/hehandbook

Department for Educationwww.education.gov.uk/childrenandyoungpeople/families/childrenincare/education

Emma CorbettParticipation Officer, The Who Cares? Trust

Emma.corbett@thewhocarestrust.org.uk

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