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2. ContinU Trust Partners 2 A Consortium since 2004 becoming a Charitable Company as the ContinU Trust in 2008. The members are: Seven 11-18 Secondary Schools, Kidderminster College, Barnardo's and Birmingham and Wolverhampton Universities) It exists: to represents the collaborative will of its partners seeking contracts and commissioning services as necessary to assist in its objectives Mission Statement: “ContinU will provide a rich, varied and high quality learning entitlement for all young people in all our institutions and, by doing so, we will engage more learners and increase their successes. We know we can do more for all our learners together, than we ever could alone”

3. ContinU Trust Sample Collaborative Activity 3 Nationally a Leading School/College Partnership Collaborative KS4 Vocational Programmes Collaborative AS/A2 levels Sharing Good Practice 2 National Teaching Schools WHP Early Family Intervention Service – 34 Primary Schools Opening Doors enrichment programme service ContinU Plus Academy AP Free School – Sept 2013 WCC Early Help 10:32 – August 2013

4. NEET Prevention Programme Background: Early Help and “10:32” Changing Government policy re IAG The Approach to a Collaborative NEET Programme The RONI s (sadly more than 2) Common Tracking (see handout) Layered contributions (see slide 5) 4

5. ContinU NEET Prevention Support Layers 10:32 /AF Collaborative Activities In-school Activities 10:32 Careers Advisors/AF “Opening Doors” “Get Ahead” Other? School Based Careers Interventions 5

6. NEET Prevention Programme (2) 10:32 Careers Advisors Roles Housekeeping Parental permissions and Early Help Notification Form Initial allocations and case loads based on Red/Amber RONIs (last year): SchoolCareers AdvisorAllocation days per week BaxterBridget Mann1.5 BewdleySara Flack0.5 CPABridget Mann1.5 King CharlesSara Flack1.0 WolverleySara Flack1.0 StourportBridget Mann1.0 HaybridgeAndy Farthing0.5 HagleyAndy Farthing0.5 6

7. Wider Careers Guidance – Are there potential collaborative opportunities? Review of School and LA obligations Statutory Requirements re Impartiality – possible collaborative approaches Quality Assurance and SGP Training Needs re in school qualified Careers Advisors (at or working towards L6 7

8. Next Steps Terms of Reference for this Board (see handout) 10:32 Careers Advisor scheduled school visits Latest RONI red/amber review Alignment of time allocation with in-school and collaborative layers Tracking process arrangements (baseline of support) Housekeeping inc space and wifi access EHN Forms and Home Permissions 10:32 Careers Advisors to generate an aggregated plan based on layers of NEET Prevention Support Universal Careers – Agreed actions re impartiality challenge and QA/Training support 8