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The Careers & Enterprise Company
Invitation to Local Enterprise Partnerships to
be at the heart of our national programme
JUNE 2015
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Purpose of this document
• Invite Local Enterprise Partnerships to join the Careers &
Enterprise Company in implementing our national programme
• Provide an overview of our planned national programme and
share feedback from Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) that
have participated in ‘Phase 0’ of the programme
• Describe how to participate in this programme and what The
Careers & Enterprise Company will provide in terms of support
• Lay out the immediate next steps
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Contents
01 SUMMARY
02 PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
03 ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
04 TIMELINES & NEXT STEPS
05 Q&A
301 SUMMARY
4What: The Programme
The Careers & Enterprise Company is inviting Local Enterprise
Partnerships to join us in implementing our national programme.
The programme aims to motivate young people, support them in
making informed choices about their future and help them attain
against those choices both in and out of school.
It will enable networks of Enterprise Advisers working directly with
secondary schools and colleges to increase the efficiency and
effectiveness of employer-school interactions.
We are seeking your involvement straightaway as we start Phase 1
of the programme in June 2015.
5Why: The opportunity
Many young people have limited connection to the world of work. Too
frequently, young people do not understand the relevance of education
nor the skills they need for the future.
There is a growing body of evidence to demonstrate that employer
engagement with schools produces positive outcomes for young people
and employers.
Employers want to help, however their offer does not always have the
impact that it should. In some parts of the country schools are
overwhelmed with employer assistance but are not always in a position
to make the best use of it. In other areas schools receive very few offers.
There is also an opportunity for greater understanding and sharing on
what types of employer-school interactions work best.
Our national programme will create a network of brokerage between
employers and schools, giving greater consistency and coverage than
exists today. It will be backed by evidence of what employer-school
interactions are most effective in delivering positive outcomes for young
people.
6Who: The Careers & Enterprise Company
In December 2014, the Secretary of State for Education announced the The Careers
& Enterprise Company which was incorporated in February 2015.
The Careers & Enterprise Company is an employer led body set up to unlock the
potential of Britain’s young people by strengthening interactions between employers
and schools.
Its role is to be an enabler, supporting and sharing the good work already out there. It
will focus on ‘what works’, measuring impact and commissioning high quality
research.
“The company will use relationships with employers to break down barriers
between schools and colleges on the one hand and employers on the other,
and increase the level of employer input into careers inspiration and enterprise
in all schools and colleges.
It will do this partly through a network of advisers who will broker strong and
extensive links at local level. It will assist schools and colleges in choosing
effective careers and enterprise organisations to partner with.
It will stimulate more, and better, activity in areas where the current provision is
poorest”.
Nicky Morgan, Secretary of State for Education
702 PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
8Programme goals and approach
GOALS APPROACH
• Motivate young people, help them • Develop or enhance a local
make more informed choices and ‘brokerage’ system with a
attain against those choices in coordinator at its heart and a set
and out of school by increasing of advisers working directly with
the national coverage and secondary schools and colleges
effectiveness of employer-schools
interactions • Focus interactions on ‘what
works’ by building a body of
CORE ASSUMPTIONS research on what are the most
high impact interventions
• LEP works in partnership with
schools, employers and other • Scale this model to simplify
relevant local organisations interactions in areas where
(employer bodies, charities, schools have many offers of help
providers, local authorities…) and fill ‘cold spots’ where they
have few
• Build on what works
• Develop a sustainable model
• Test, learn and adapt
9The Model
REGIONAL VIEW
School
EA Enterprise Coordinator is
EA employed or funded by LEP
which in turn draws its
EMPLOYERS representation from local
employer community
Enterprise Adviser is drawn
LEP from local employer
community and attached to
local school
EA EC EA Network of Enterprise
Advisers is directed and
managed by Enterprise
Coordinator
Each regional cluster will
have a strong
governance board with
relevant local parties
represented
EA EA
EC = Enterprise Coordinator
EA EA = Enterprise Adviser
10Why we believe this works
In 2014, 5 LEPs signed up to an Enterprise Adviser pilot as part of the
Government Growth Deal. These pilots were set up in late 2014 and since then
over 160 schools and Enterprise Advisers have been matched in a relatively short
time.
In March/April 2015 The Careers & Enterprise Company and Cabinet Office have
each reviewed the pilots and initial results have been encouraging.
‘Our Enterprise Advisers pilot has made a massive difference in linking
the world of education and the world of work, with business leaders
working directly with the top teams in schools to develop a strategy to
make this happen. Almost half of our secondary schools have already
signed up and a significant programme of activity is in place including
Open for Business Events, Pop Up Job Shops, Apprenticeship
Ambassadors and Teacher Training Events.
Our ambition now is to roll this out to every school’.
JO LAPPIN
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP
1103 ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
12Role of the Enterprise Coordinator (EC)
Who they are:
• Expected to be employed by or funded through the LEP
Typical profile:
• Good organisation skills, well connected locally, with track record of strong
relationships with schools and employers; may be already fulfilling a relevant
role in the area today
What they do:
• understand the local environment
• encourage local schools and employers to support the programme
• manage and provide support to the local network of Enterprise Advisers
• participate in a national network with other ECs run by The Careers &
Enterprise Company
• localise materials and disseminate best practice produced by The Careers &
Enterprise Company among schools in the network
• match the Enterprise Advisers to the schools and support their introduction
and on-going relationships
13Role of the Enterprise Adviser (EA)
Who they are:
• Volunteers with strong links to business e.g. employee, self employed
Typical profile:
• May be recruited from a variety of sources - local/national business,
members of professional institutes, employer bodies
What they do:
• work with a school or small number of schools to support their careers
and enterprise strategies
• work closely with the EC to understand the local offer, provision and
labour market
• participate in an EA network
• use materials and the toolkit developed by The Careers & Enterprise
Company and localised by the LEP
• work closely with the school leadership team as a broker; they do not
deliver interventions themselves
14The Ask of the LEP
1. Be accountable for the local delivery and success of the model
2. Create strong and broad based local governance
3. Employ or fund at least one full time Enterprise Coordinator who will
be the main point of contact for the programme
4. Ensure effective local network of Enterprise Advisers
5. Work with employers and interested stakeholders to improve the local
offer building on what works
6. Encourage school leaders to participate in the programme with a view
to targeting all secondary schools and colleges (although not
necessarily in Phase 1)
7. Match the funding provided by The Careers & Enterprise Company
8. Work with The Careers & Enterprise Company to refine the model
and track impact
15The Careers & Enterprise Company will provide
1. Funding for the LEP to kick start activities
2. A ‘toolkit’ to support the Enterprise Coordinators and the Enterprise
Advisers
3. High quality research
4. Training for Enterprise Coordinators and Enterprise Advisers
5. Support in recruiting Enterprise Coordinators and Enterprise
Advisers
6. Coordination of the Enterprise Coordinators
7. Coordination of a national network of Enterprise Advisers
8. Connection with national employers, government and providers
1604 TIMELINES & NEXT STEPS
17Invitation for ‘Phase 1’ participants
We invite LEPs to join us in the first phase of our programme, starting
in June 2015. We are aware of wider discussions around growth deals
and devolution – however we wish to engage now.
We are inviting all 39 LEPs to participate. In Phase 1 we wish to work
with LEPs who have the appetite to work with us and can meet the
tight timescales and we appreciate that not all LEPs can do this at this
time.
Under our proposed timeline for Phase 1, The Careers & Enterprise
Company would support the LEP in initial conversations with schools
and in recruiting the Enterprise Coordinator and Enterprise Advisers
over the summer months. Activities in schools would start in Autumn
2015.
We hope that many of the LEPs will choose to join us now – we are
asking for information to help us select our initial focus areas.
18The Phased Implementation
Following the ‘Phase 0’ pilots, this programme will roll out in 3 phases:
Phase 1 (focus of this document)
• Enrolment of LEPs through June 2015
• Initial interaction with schools in July
• Selection of ECs and EAs during July/August
• Training of EC and EAs in August/September
• Commencement of activities in schools in Autumn 2015
Phase 2
• Model refined taking into account lessons learnt from Phase 1
• roll out 2016
Phase 3
• Further roll out across England 2016/17
19Request for Information
The Careers & Enterprise Company wishes to take a collaborative approach to
submission particularly in view of the tight timescales.
The following summary information is required for participation in ‘Phase 1’:
• Short overview of proposal and ambition
Fit to local strategy, number and type of schools targeted
• Understanding of local challenge/need*
Current activities and impact, attainment and destination data, NEETs
• Evidence of opportunity for rapid and significant impact
• Ability to work at pace
• Ability to work with us to track impact
We would like to receive responses within the next 4 weeks. We will review
applications as they arrive.
*We encourage you to give us details of where existing employer/schools programmes are either working well
or not at all so that we can judge best practice and cold spots.
20Submission
Please submit a short proposal (preferably powerpoint) of no more
than 10 slides/pages covering the information requested.
Please submit by end of June 2015 and we will review proposals as
they arrive.
Please contact Mary Tyler to discuss further.
Mary Tyler – mtyler@enterpriseforeducation.co.uk
07468 714323
2105 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
22Q&A
Funding
The Careers & Enterprise Company will fund an amount between £50,000 –
£150,000 depending upon the need, number of pupils in LEP area, scale of the
programme and match funding.
This money will be available to kick start the activity in the LEP.
Further details of funding will be discussed with interested LEPs.
23Q&A
Model
The Careers & Enterprise Company wishes to use a model similar to that
piloted during 2014/15 by the 5 LEPs, and as described in this pack. In
those regions where the LEP is not able to support the programme then
The Careers & Enterprise Company will investigate alternative delivery
models.
The programme is to support secondary schools and colleges. Primary
schools are not in scope.
Enterprise
The term ‘enterprise’ is used by The Careers & Enterprise Company in the
widest possible context. It means more than setting up a business, it is
referring to all kinds of employment as ‘enterprise’ and also encompasses
‘enterprising’ to mean behavioural attributes such as leadership and
motivation.
24Q&A
Role of The Careers & Enterprise Company
The Careers & Enterprise Company is an enabler, there to facilitate and to
encourage activity and to disseminate best practice. It is not a delivery
organisation. The Careers & Enterprise Company will support the LEP in
the set up of this Programme and produce materials that can and should be
used but will not seek to endorse any specific providers nor to replace any
existing provision.
Existing Pilots
We are expecting to build upon the existing pilots. These pilots are taking
place in Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly; Leeds City Region; New Anglia,
Northamptonshire and Sheffield City Region.
25Q&A
Engagement
For LEPs that are not participating in Phase 1 we would still be interested in
hearing a perspective on when LEPs think they would join, and if they do
not anticipate joining what their reasons are so that we can further our
understanding.
We wish to have a degree of flexibility in the model as we appreciate
activities in this area may already be underway.
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