1. Partnership for Young London and The Education and Employers Task Force
From School to Work in London Learning from Germany - education and employers working together

2. Welcome
Dr. Anthony Mann Education and Employers Task Force, Director of Policy and Research (chair)

3. From School to Work in London Learning from Germany - education and employers working together – the report
Welcome Dr. Anthony Mann Education and Employers Task Force, Director of Policy and Research (chair)
PYL and our partners: Sharon Long, PYL Strategic Director
The Study Tour: Chris Heaume, PYL Trustee
What we learnt - the recommendations
London employer-led education hubs to coordinate educational/business activity
Employer-led key-stage 3 career orientation programme
Social enterprise companies for unemployed young people
Where next? Yolande Burgess, Strategy Director, Education and Skills, London Councils
Summary (chair) and close at 1730

4. Sharon Long Strategic Director, Partnership for Young London
Our partners
Sharon Long Strategic Director, Partnership for Young London

5. Our model:

6. The Study Tour: where, why, what was seen Chris Heaume Partnership for Young London, Trustee

7. Why and Where
Why
German employer involvement in transition, lower
NEETs from age 18
Where
NRW Germany schools, colleges, employers, youth
support agencies
Comparable national economic powerhouses
Comparable diversity in the economy and in the workforce, high mobility
Comparable overall unemployment levels lower than the national average (around 9%) and considerably lower for 16 – 18 year olds
But for young people 18 to 24 Germany maintains less than 10% and the UK higher than 20%.
Germany has a GDP per capita of 44,469 USA dollars compared to 38,452 in the UK.

8. Underpinning issues Comparable challenges
Underpinning stability arising from federal structures
The systematic scale of employer engagement
A vibrant employer-focussed transition programme
Comparable challenges: HE/vocational trend, stereotyped career rourtes, testing ,special needs
Systematic scale employer engagement: federations, trusts, chambers; employer view of competitive advantage

9. Clear, flexible, led, partnership, explicit, parent involement, clear path determined

10. The career orientation process
Clear process, employers in schools, students in workpalce, rote determnied in year 10 and then pathwaay followed

11. The recommendations
3 issues. 3 success factors: varying hub aerrnagements, but driven and resourced; dynamic career process; work-based progrmame for yp long term NEET

12. Employer-education hubs to coordinate educational/business activity
Recommendation 1
Employer-education hubs to coordinate educational/business activity
Joanne Young, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Christian Graack, Mercator College, Moers, NRW
Jürgen Renner, Sparkasse Bank, Moers, NRW

13. Employer-led key-stage 3 career orientation programme
Recommendation 2
Employer-led key-stage 3 career orientation programme
Vicki Harrison-Carr, EPIC
Lin Proctor, Raising Aspirations Director, Future Academies (including Pimlico Academy)
Birgit Reusrath, Hexbachtal School Mulheim

14. Social enterprise companies for unemployed young people
Recommendation 3
Social enterprise companies for unemployed young people
Eamonn Gilbert, Royal Borough of Kingston
Albert Schepers, GIB, Innovative Employment
Development Corporation, Transition from school to work, North Rhine Westfalia
Mike Theisen, JBH Youth Career Support agency, Düsseldorf

15. Where next? Yolande Burgess Strategy Director Education and Skills
London Councils

16. Summary and close Dr. Anthony Mann