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From Care2Work Creating Opportunities Raising Aspirations Barry Cullen Employability 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 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  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   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 Cullen Employability Projects Manager Website - Twitter From Care2Work Mailing List manage.com/subscribe?u=5c9a0bfa9b06a75f21c1181f4&id=a68663cfed Thank You

Raising aspiration and sustainable job outcomes for care leavers: Higher education Emma Corbett Participation Officer, The Who Cares? Trust 9 th 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  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?

What the numbers say  In 2012, there were 6, year olds who had been in care when they were 16. How many of these were in higher education?

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

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.

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CollegeCalderdale CollegeCapel Manor CollegeCarlisle CollegeCastle CollegeCheshire HE ConsortiumChesterfield CollegeCleveland College of Art and DesignColchester InstituteCornwall CollegeCraven CollegeCroydon CollegeDearne Valley CollegeDoncaster CollegeEast Riding CollegeExeter CollegeFarnborough College Gloucestershire CollegeGuildford CollegeThe Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher EducationHartpury CollegeHavering CollegeHereford College of ArtHull CollegeKidderminster CollegeKingston Maurwood CollegeLakes College West CumbriaLeeds City CollegeLeicester CollegeLincoln CollegeLiverpool Community CollegeLoughborough CollegeCity College ManchesterMoulton CollegeMyerscough CollegeThe Manchester CollegeCollege of North West LondonNew College DurhamNew College NottinghamNew College StamfordNewcastle CollegeNorth East Worcestershire College North Lindsey CollegeNorthbrook College SussexCity College PlymouthPlumpton CollegePlymouth College of Art and DesignThe Peoples College NottinghamReaseheath CollegeRichard Huish CollegeRiverside College, HaltonRuskin CollegeCity of Sunderland CollegeSolihull CollegeSomerset College of Arts and TechnologySouth Essex College of Further and Higher EducationSparsholt CollegeSt Helens CollegeStockport CollegeStratford- Upon-Avon CollegeStrode CollegeSuffolk CollegeSurrey Regional Higher Education ConsortiumSussex Coast College HastingsSussex Downs CollegeSwindon CollegeWiltshire College SalisburyTruro and Penwith CollegeTyne Metropolitan CollegeWakefield CollegeWarwickshire CollegeWest Thames CollegeWestminster Kingsway CollegeWigan and Leigh CollegeWiltshire CollegeWirral Metropolitan CollegeWorcester College of TechnologyYork CollegeAnglia Ruskin UniversityAston UniversityUniversity of the Arts LondonBath Spa UniversityBirkbeck CollegeBirmingham City UniversityBishop Grosseteste University CollegeBournemouth UniversityBrunel UniversityBuckinghamshire New UniversityThe Arts University College at BournemouthUniversity 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HullImperial College LondonInstitute of EducationKeele UniversityKings College LondonKingston UniversityUniversity of KentLancaster UniversityLeeds College of ArtLeeds College of MusicLeeds Metropolitan UniversityLeeds Trinity University CollegeLiverpool Hope University Liverpool Institute for Performing ArtsLiverpool John Moores UniversityLondon Metropolitan UniversityLondon School of Economics and Political ScienceLondon South Bank UniversityLoughborough UniversityUniversity of LeedsUniversity of LeicesterUniversity of LincolnUniversity of LiverpoolUniversity of LutonManchester Metropolitan UniversityMiddlesex UniversityUniversity of ManchesterNewcastle UniversityNewman University College Norwich University College of the ArtsNottingham Trent UniversityUniversity of NorthamptonUniversity of Northumbria at NewcastleUniversity of NottinghamOpen UniversityOxford Brookes UniversityUniversity of OxfordUniversity College Plymouth St Mark and St JohnUniversity of PlymouthUniversity of PortsmouthQueen Mary, University of LondonRavensbourne College of Design and CommunicationRoehampton UniversityRose Bruford CollegeRoyal Academy of MusicRoyal Agricultural CollegeRoyal College of MusicRoyal Holloway, University of LondonRoyal Northern College of MusicRoyal Veterinary CollegeUniversity of ReadingSchool of PharmacySheffield Hallam UniversitySOAS, University of London Southampton Solent UniversitySt Georges Hospital Medical SchoolSt Martins CollegeSt Marys University CollegeStaffordshire UniversityUniversity Campus SuffolkUniversity of SalfordUniversity of SheffieldUniversity of SouthamptonUniversity of SunderlandUniversity of SurreyUniversity of SussexThames Valley UniversityTrinity LabanUniversity of TeessideUniversity College LondonUniversity of the West of England, BristolUniversity of WarwickUniversity of West LondonUniversity of WestminsterUniversity of WinchesterUniversity of Wolverhampton University of WorcesterWrittle CollegeUniversity of YorkYork St John University 219 OFFA institutions

What do different HEIs offer?

Differing support 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 Minds and-res-open-doors-open-minds-803.html and-res-open-doors-open-minds-803.html  The H.E. Handbook  Department for Education childrenandyoungpeople/families/ childrenincare/education childrenandyoungpeople/families/ childrenincare/education

Emma Corbett Participation Officer, The Who Cares? Trust

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