Operational Guide to NEET Reduction · Web viewEHPS support for Learners at risk of becoming NEET ..... 36 SEND Local Offer ..... 40 Skills and Employability Participation Offer

Kent County Council

Operational Handbook

Review Date December 2016

Owner: Education and Young Peoples Services

NEET Handbook

2016 - 2017

Operational Guide to NEET Reduction

Introduction ............................................................................................................ 3

KCC Processes ...................................................................................................... 4

District Participation Meetings ................................................................................ 5

Roles and Responsibilities: District Participation Meetings ......................... 5

Terms of Reference for Participation Meetings ........................................... 7

Area Strategy Coordinator Forum ......................................................................... 10

District NEET Targets January 2017 ..................................................................... 10

NEET to EET Process Diagrams .......................................................................... 12

EHPS support for Learners at risk of becoming NEET ......................................... 36

SEND Local Offer .................................................................................................. 40

Skills and Employability Participation Offer ........................................................... 41

District Offer ................................................................................................ 41

Apprenticeships .......................................................................................... 42

Work Experience ........................................................................................ 43

Kent Supported Employment ..................................................................... 44

Job Centre Plus ..................................................................................................... 46

Summary of Tracking Requirements from Schools, Actions and Deadlines 2016 2017 ...................................................................................................................... 48

Careers Education ................................................................................................ 51

MI Data reports - Good practice guide .................................................................. 52

Staff Development and Training ............................................................................ 53

IYSS ............................................................................................................ 53

CEIAG ......................................................................................................... 53

Useful Documents .................................................................................................. 55

IntroductionEngagement in learning and educational attainment is critical if young people are to make a success of their lives. Evidence shows that not being in education, employment or training (NEET) between the ages of 16 and 18 is a major predictor of later unemployment, lower job security and lower rates of pay. There is also greater likelihood of teenage parenthood, depression and poor physical and mental health; persistent youth offending resulting in custodial sentences; insecure housing and homelessness; use of illicit drugs and transition to the use of class A drugs; poor relationships and early death. All the work we do to avoid young people becoming NEET, therefore, has the potential for life long benefits.PurposeThe Kent NEET Strategy (published 2015) sets out our commitment to our most vulnerable young people to ensure that they are able to engage in education and training, to maximise their life chances and to make a successful transition to adult life. The aim of the Strategy is to ensure full participation by all young people to age 18 and beyond and to significantly reduce the number of young people who are not in education, employment or training. We recognise that certain groups of young people are particularly vulnerable to achieving poorer outcomes, and have a strong likelihood of becoming NEET if they do not receive coordinated and effective support to help them make progress and engage successfully in education and employment with training. The Kent NEET Strategy (published 2015) aims to ensure we address the needs of these young people effectively and there are joined up approaches to supporting them across services. It is a failure of the education system and its support services when young people become NEET after the age 16, when they should be able to look forward to positive opportunities for further learning and work. It is our job to change this. This handbook provides operational guidance for all KCC staff, in a range of services, involved in supporting and reducing the numbers of young people who are NEET. They are charged with working in a more joined up way and taking a pro-active approach to ensure young people do not become NEET, and when they do swift action is taken to help them access appropriate learning and training provision. The handbook provides clarity around all the key processes and actions that should take place, including access to multi-agency meetings. I hope you find it a helpful document in improving the opportunities for young people. Patrick LeesonKCC Processes

2016/17 KCC NEETs to EET Process

EET

Four Week Cycle

IYSS Input regularly updated

All KCC/CXK staff working with YP

Data Reports MI, Skills and Employability, NEETs and Not Knowns

Skills and Employability,

Tracking and Guidance, Information and Advice, Checking progress and signposting

Skills and Employability tracking team to make first contact with all NEETs contact with all NEETs and not knowns Information, Advice and guidance and EET destination identified where possible

Data reports produced monthly to identify NEETs, Not knowns, participation, leavers and joiners

Service head to received breakdown of leavers and joiners and oversee appropriate actions

All staff working with young people regularly to update IYSS

Service heads for vulnerable groups to ensure interventions are logged on IYSS

VL Group Lead EHPS Vulnerable Womens Groups

SEND VDS

CIC Young Carers

Care leavers Troubled Families

PRU Young Parents/Pregnant

CME

EHE

Specialist advice and guidance profiles of Young People

Work ready support transition

Multiple issues*

Identify appropriate placement

EHPS Multiple barriers to learning

Support at appropriate level (additional or intensive)

Intensive support requested via an Early Help Notification

Support transition

Identify appropriate place

Monitor sustained destinations

Early Help commissioned service

NEET Support Service

Additional support for long term NEETs

Information from Schools and FE Colleges

Multi agency

District Participation meetings

Individual cases presented and placed

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District Participation Meetings

Roles and Responsibilities: District Participation Meetings

These meetings are the joint responsibility of the Early Help and Preventative Services District Manager and Skills and Employability Participation and Progress Manager.

The role of the PPM is to influence the placement of the young person into a provision.

The role of EHPS and the vulnerable leads is to provide the support to enable the young person to be ready for, to engage with the provision and for it to be sustained.

PPM

District Managers

EHPS Vulnerable Learner Leads

Vulnerable Learner Leads SEND, VSK and Care Leavers, Fair Access

MI Data

Overview of NEET leavers/joiners

Pen picture of non VL NEET

Co-ordination of first level of action for NEET by Skills and Employability tracking team Young Persons Participation Officer (YPPO). YPPO will work with young people who are identified as EET ready and who require a light touch intervention in order to progress onto the next stage of their career. YPPO

Provide information and signposting to EET destinations. Telephone contact only.

Manage and develop district offer including managing participation retention, and outcomes

Managing access to Apprenticeships, Assisted Apprenticeships, KEP and Training Providers

Manage KSE, Supported Internships for SEND young people.

Provide agenda, monthly reports and QA on NEETs and Unknowns for District Participation Meetings

Co-ordinate targeted interventions

Agree personalised learning or employment pathways for individual learners with multiple barriers to EET.

Agree allocation of case workers and resources.

Co-ordinate transition activities.

Co-ordinate intensive support for young people not EET ready.

Develop and implement a Preventative Strategies local offer.

Identify barriers to EET.

Monitor placements to ensure sustainability.

Make EHPS and CXK notifications.

To assist young people to overcome barriers to learning and employment

To broker opportunities between Providers and Young People and engage young people in job preparation and opportunity search

To collate and disseminate to their teams up to date information on current training opportunities via liaison with PPM

Bring the names of NEET, EET ready young people in their VL cohort to the meeting with profiles and individual action plans.

Identify additional support needed for transition to EET.

Action Not Known in VL cohort.

VL case work

Agree actions to monitor EET position for 3 months

Identify hard to place young people and action a plan

To assist young people to overcome barriers to learning and employment

To broker opportunities between Providers and Young People and engage young people in job preparation and opportunity search (with the exception of SEND who identify appropriate provision and consult young person and parent/carer and preferred provider).

To collate and disseminate up to date information on current training opportunities via liaison with the PPM

Bring the names of NEET, EET ready young people in their VL cohort to the meeting with profiles and individual action plans. In the case of SEND this is the EHCP details.

Identify additional support needed for transition to EET.

Action Not Known in VL cohort.

VL case work

Agree actions to monitor EET position for 3 months

Identify hard to place young people and action a plan

Individual district reports

a) Leavers and Joiners

b) Not Knowns

c) By Vulnerable Learner

d) By provision

Terms of Reference for Participation Meetings

1Core Purpose

Kent County Council is committed to enabling young people to maximise their life chances and to make a successful transition to adulthood. Being engaged in education, training or employment is a key protective factor.

2 Objective

Participation meetings need to ensure that young people who are 16-18 (24 SEND)

are able to participate in full time high quality education, training, employment with training, apprenticeships and are appropriately supported to make a successful transitions

and vulnerable young people have targeted appropriate and timely support which fulfils KCCs statutory obligations.

3 Leadership

The District Manager, Early Help and Preventative Services, and the Participation and Progression Manager, Skills and Employability, will have shared responsibility for acting as the Chair of the meeting.

All services listed at the Membership of the District Participation Meeting will be responsible for ensuring they are represented at each meeting.

The joint Chairs will be responsible for ensuring a written record if kept of the key issues and agreed actions emanating from each meeting.

4 Key Activities

Key activities include but are not limited to;

1. Identify at an early stage all young people at risk of being NEET in Schools and Colleges who are in need of support

2. Increase participation of all young people in education, employment and training post-16

3. Increase provision of training opportunities in all districts at a range of levels

4. Regularly share information between partner organisations

5. Identify coaching and personal support to young people as required

6. Review and evaluate the impact of the NEET strategy and report to the interdependencies board

7. Influence the planning of appropriate district provision based on need identified when working with young people

5Accountability

The 12 District Partnership meetings will provide regular updates on progress to the NEET Interdependencies Board. Effective strategic and operational management across KCC directorates will be provided by:

a) Cabinet Members

b) EYPS DMT

c) NEETs Interdependencies Board

6 Monthly Actions for District Participation Meetings

The District Participation group will meet monthly and will identify and action the following:

6.1 Young People At risk of NEET

EYPS to provide information on young people at risk of becoming NEET in schools and colleges

Vulnerable Group leads to provide young people at risk of becoming NEET in schools and colleges

EHPS to provide preventative strategies to engage

6.2 Young People in NEET cohort

The NEET report on individual young people is brought to the meeting by the PPM.

Lists for each of the vulnerable groups are passed to the leads. Leads to identify transition support to EET. Update IYSS intervention.

Young people ready to engage with EET referred to providers. Update IYSS intervention.

6.3 Young People who are EET-ready

Leads bring EET ready young people to table with brief details of their needs. Agreed transition support where appropriate- logged on IYSS

Young people ready to engage with EET referred to providers

6.4 Young People with barriers to engagement

Progress reviews for NEETs who are remaining NEET

Hard to place and long term NEET referred to NEET support service (CXK). Update IYSS intervention.

NEET with multiple complex issues are referred to EHPS. Notification made by the district manager. Update IYSS intervention.

6.5 YP in Not Known cohort

Review not known list

Local interventions agreed with EYPS managers to reduce not knowns

6.6 Issues with district offer and local provision

PPMs influence providers for appropriate provision based on identified district need

Regular progress reports provided by the PPM and the Area Managers to the NEET Interdependencies Board

Any gaps in provision are taken to the AEO area strategy coordination forums.

7Membership

Membership of the group should include as a minimum the following:

Chair

Area PPM and/or Early Help District Manager

Service

Team

Skills and Employability Service

EDO

YPPO

Virtual School Kent

Children in Care / Asylum Seekers

Care Leavers

Early Help and Preventative Services

Local Lead District Manager/Hub Managers

Youth Offending

Teenage parents

Young Carers

Troubled Families

PRU

Fair Access

CME

Elected Home Educated Team

SEND Assessment and Placement Service

SEN Assessment and Placement Service

NEET Support Service

CXK

Other NEET Programmes

JCP

Schools

Inclusion Manager

FE Colleges

Inclusion Manager

Training Providers

Course Representative

Area Strategy Coordinator Forum

There is an emerging model of good practice in Partnership working. Currently in the south the AEO chairs, an area strategy forum which has an action plan that has been implemented as a result of the area review. This action plan includes post 16 participation and NEETs. It is attended by the area EHPS lead, Educational Psychology, Primary Improvement Advisors, Secondary Improvement Advisors, Participation and Progression Managers, Head of Service Early Help, PIAS Lead, Deputy Head VSK, Sufficiency and Sustainability manager, District SEN and Access to education officer.

There is a participation group in each district that looks at the characteristics of the districts young people and provision match/gaps. This meeting is led by the AEO with the PPM and SIA. It is attended by secondary Headteachers and FE. The intention is to seek provision or innovate to meet the needs of the young person to include collaboration between schools, training providers and FE.

The intention is that this group strategically manages their district Participation and as part of its remit for commissioning places for participation seeks to fill the provision gaps highlighted by the EHPS lead and the PPM and aim to meet the NEET targets for their district.

District NEET Targets January 2017

16-18 year old NEET Summary

NEET Target

16-18

Jan 2017

Kent

1.00%

Ashford

0.84%

Canterbury

0.82%

Dartford

1.02%

Dover

1.12%

Gravesham

1.01%

Maidstone

1.00%

Sevenoaks

0.66%

Shepway

1.21%

Swale

1.22%

Thanet

1.40%

Tonbridge & Malling

0.67%

Tunbridge Wells

0.66%

Terms of Reference for KCC NEETs Interdependencies Board

1. Develop and oversee the implementation of the KCC NEET Strategy and Action Plan

2. Monitor the outcomes of the Action Plan via reports from District Participation meetings and agree appropriate interventions

3. Monitor KCC performance against National and SE local authorities and agree actions where required

4. Vulnerable Learner leads to report progress towards agreed targets and KPIs.

5. Monitor KCC Services activities to reduce NEETs and Not Knowns

6. Co-ordinate systems and business processes to reduce NEET and Unknown young people across KCC

7. Evaluate impact and outcome

8. Review District provision and provide support to address barriers to participation with external Providers and Government agencies

9. Receive reports on intensive NEETs Support Services

10. Share best practice and provide guidance for services as required

Membership

Chair

Patrick Leeson

Service

Team

Skills and Employability

Head of Service

4 Area PPM

NEETs Strategic Lead

Early Help and Preventative Services

4 Area Strategic Leads

SEND

Head of Service

VSK

Post 16 lead

Care Leavers Service

Head of Service

MI

Performance and Information Manager

PRU

Executive Head teacher

NEET to EET Process Diagrams

Skills and Employability Tracking and Early Support process chart

A) Monthly data collection from a range of services

B) All your NEETS/Not Knowns contacted by telephone

C) District Participation Meeting

Information and Guidance, provider signposted

EET progress check

College Lists

School Lists

Not Known Lists

NAS data

NEET Tracking

YPPO NEET caseload

If NEET passed to District participation meeting for placement

Participation meetings

See TOR for detail page 4-9

PPMs

NEET

If EET change status on IYSS

Confirm NEET or EET

If EET change status on IYSS

Early Help and Preventative Services NEET Pathways

PRU NEET Process Chart

Young Person EET

Identified as needing to remain on the roll of the PRU (typically but not exclusively due to a health need).

Young person NEET

Identified as VSK, SEND, YOS other identified support (see appropriate flowchart)

Transition programme and activities, e.g. 4 week life skills, engagement activities, ASDAN, Work ready

PRU

Those at risk of NEET presented at District Participation meetings.

Young Person EET

Identified as having an appropriate September guarantee

PRU staff, PRU Participation workers and key worker working with year 11 to identify September Guarantee for post 16 choices. PRU, with school develop transition plan.

IAG work experience and progression opportunities delivered as part of the Key stage 4 curriculum

Early Help Preventative Services (EHPS)

Young Person NEET

EHPS workers establish relationship

Access to youth hubs

Work experience

Work related qualifications e.g. ASDAN

Duke of Edinburgh

Identifies and promotes Assisted Apprenticeships/Traineeships

Key Worker/buddy identified supports visits to provisions Identifies bridging courses (work ready)

Monthly meeting between PRU Staff/ District Manager and other agencies to discuss young people in the PRU, identify lead professionals and agree support plans.

Young Person Supporting Activities

Time Line

Year 10

(age 14/15)

Year 11

(age 15/16)

November

March

May - Sept

June-August

Post 16

Access provision through the PRU alongside agreed providers. Could include online and home tuition for high need

Contacted by PRU weekly for four weeks to support progression

Contacted by PRU in October and November.

Referred back to EHPS via DPM if at risk of dropping out

Early Help Pathway.

See EHPS flowchart at Allocate stage

September

October

Menu of EHPS Services to support reduction in NEETs

Identified Key Workers/Buddies with level 4 training able to identify and support access to

Work ready programmes

Traineeships

Assisted Apprentices

Regular access to support programmes promoting employability skills

Work experience and work place visits

Work related qualifications e.g. ASDAN, industry certificates, finance skills etc

Regular social development and support contact

Access to youth hubs

Community and Charity work

Social enterprise

Duke of Edinburgh

PRU Students Post 16 NEET to EET Process

After 4 weeks PRU monitoring, a post 16 YP identified as at risk of NEET

YP assigned to an appropriate Early Help Key Worker as NEET Buddy

EH Key Worker clarifies YPs NEET risk in liaison with PRU and provision

If NEET, engagement with YP and a light touch NEET assessment by Key Worker

EET options identified or YP EET engagement actions planned by Key Worker

Provision discussed and agreed at District Participation Meeting

EH Key Worker updates IYSS of progress which is also reported to District NEET allocation meeting

If EET, EH Key Worker updates EHPS record and IYSS

EH Key Worker continue to monitor progress, updating IYSS accordingly

Virtual School Kent NEETs Process Chart 2016

Year 11 NEET Prevention Process

Year 11 Progression Support Officer working with year 11 young people in district area to identify September Guarantee for Post 16 choices

VSK develop transition plan for young people where EET has been identified in collaboration with VSK Post 16 team

For those at risk of NEET, discussed with key professionals (e.g. VSK, SW, Skills and Employability, EHPS) through VSK meeting and KCC meetings

Possible EET opportunity identified and transition plan identified

Virtual School Kent Post 16 NEET Process

Post 16 Young Person identified as NEET and assigned to a VSK Post 16 Support Officer

If EET, clarify details and update VSK Data, IYSS and ePEP system

VSK clarify status with Social Worker and any current work taking place

If NEET, discuss possible options with key professionals (Social Worker, EHPS, Skills and Employability)

Possible discussions at District Participation meetings

VSK Post 16 Support Officer monitors progress Update VSK system, IYSS

Young person monitored by VSK Support Officer

VSK update Data and IYSS of progress/status

Identified key professional to support young person and keep others informed of progress (e.g. VSK, CXK, and SEN)

Possible EET opportunity identified, or actions set to support young person with EET options

Virtual School Kent Year 12-13 Transition to 18Plus Service

VSK to end chronology on EPEP and Masterlist. 18Plus Worker take over case of young person. To liaise with YOS, SEN, EHPS where required

If NEET, 18Plus Worker to read notes on EPEP system to see chronology of support. VSK and 18+ to agree hand over timescale.

If young person NEET at 17.5 yrs, to discuss at regular review meeting with 18Plus Service in collaboration with other key teams within KCC

Year 12 or 13 young person - if attending a school sixth form will come under VSK Locality Assistant Head.

Any other EET status will be allocated to one of the VSK Post 16 Support Officers who will work with them to track and monitor EET status.

Year 12 or 13 young person to receive x2 PEPs per academic year cycle. VSK Post 16 Support Officer to carry out 3rd PEP as a tracking and monitoring visit with EET provider. VSK staff to add information to Young Person Support Log on the EPEP system

Year 12 young person - VSK to work with young person, Social Worker, EET provider to identify year 13 plans.

Year 13 young person - VSK to work with young person, Social Worker, EET provider to identify year 13 plans.

If young person is NEET, VSK Post 16 Support Officer to work with young person and Social Worker/PA to identify possible EET options.

VSK to track and monitor young person during year 12.

VSK to support year 13 progression plans through guidance and tracking. Transition support put in place where required.

If young person EET, VSK support until the end of academic year 13. If young person accessing EET into year 14, VSK to support during first 4 weeks of term then handover case to 18Plus Team.

Care Leavers 18Plus NEET Flow Chart

Young person identified as being NEET. Personal Adviser to visit young person within 10 days of becoming NEET

Personal Adviser to complete Pen Picture and Matching Tool with young person

Personal Adviser discuss possible options with 18Plus Support Officer

If not suitable opportunities identified, Personal Adviser to take Pen Picture and Matching Tool to the local District Partnership Meetings

Personal Adviser to update/review Pathway Plan

Personal Adviser to ensure young person is actively seeking education, training or employment. Ensure young person has an up-to-date CV and is prepared for interviews. Support young person when interviews are arranged.

Personal Adviser to ensure young person s registered for benefits and is maintaining claim. Ensure the DWP Job Centre are aware of the young person and is flagged as a Care Leaver and have PA contact details.

*The 18Plus Management team will review monthly the NEET spreadsheet and identify actions where appropriate.

Care Leavers Support for those in year 14 at College or Sixth Form

Young person attending sixth form or College in year 14 (must be 18yrs old on 31st August to receive EFA funding). Refer to Probation, SEN, EHPS where required.

Young person supported by VSK Post 16 Support Worker/Locality teams through until October half term

Tracking and Monitoring to take place between VSK and provider to ensure support in place if required and discuss any concerns/onward progression

Young person identified as risk of NEET or has become NEET - VSK to liaise with Personal Adviser to identify possible opportunities or address barriers to EET

Personal Adviser to complete pen picture. Young person discussed at District Partnership Meetings to identify possible EET opportunities

Tracking and Monitoring to take place between VSK and provider to ensure support in place if required and discuss any concerns/onward progression

New EET opportunity identified

Transition to the 18Plus Service by October half term of year 14

Care Leavers Supporting those in Apprenticeship/Training Provider

Onward progression identified

Tracking and Monitoring to take place with provider to ensure support in place if required and discuss any concerns/onward progression

New EET opportunity identified.

Personal Adviser to complete pen picture. Young person discussed at District Allocations Meetings to identify possible EET opportunities

Young person identified as risk of NEET or has become NEET - VSK to liaise with Personal Adviser to identify possible opportunities or address barriers to EET

Onward progression identified

Tracking and Monitoring to take place with provider to ensure support in place if required and discuss any concerns/onward progression

Personal Adviser carries out regular reviews to monitor progress and identify any areas of concern

Young person accessing an Apprenticeship or Training Provider. Ensure refer to Probation, SEN, EHPS where required

VSK, Skills & Employability and 18Plus Service Collaboration

Interdependencies Group Monthly Meeting. Chaired by Patrick Leeson.Malcolm attends on behalf of VSK. Naintara/Sue could attend on behalf of 18+ Service

NEET - Effective Practice Group

Monthly Meeting. Chaired by Charlie Beaumont (Management Information). Rachel Calver attends on behalf of VSK. Sue Clifton invited to attend.

PPF (formally NEET to EET meetings) Meeting structure:

Meeting allows for discussion of young people.Schools and KCC services bring along names of young people to the meeting to link the young person to opportunities. Forward planning and what is happening in the district is also discussed.

Allocated time slots given to schools and KCC Services to come along to the meeting with their list of young people. KCC S&E staff lead the meeting with local training providers to then identify possible opportunities for young person.

District Partnership meeting structure:

Meeting is a discussion about the opportunities and how services work together and improve services rather than talking about specific young people. Also looks at gaps in provision and tries to broker solutions.

VSK

Post 16 Support Officers attend local district area meeting and shares NEET caseload, discussing opportunities. VSK Year 11 Progression Support Officer may also attend meeting.

18Plus Service

To attend the meetings with pen pictures of young people to discuss any staff could attend as long as have list or pen pictures.

18Plus Service could attend for an allocated time slot to talk about their group of young people and identify possible opportunities

Participation Progression Forums (PPF)

Takes place across all 12 districts 4 times per year Oct, Nov, Mar, Jun) Attendees invited: KCC Skills & Employability staff, VSK, Careers staff from schools, Kent Training & Apprenticeships, Local Training Providers, Early Help & Preventative Services, CXK local staff

District Partnership Meetings

Takes place across all 12 districts monthly

Attendees invited: KCC Skills & Employability, VSK, CXK Senior Representative, Early Help & Preventative Services District Manager and Youth Hub Delivery Manager, Local Training Providers, Job Centre Plus, District Council, Troubled Families ManagerNewly invited Youth Offending Team and Special Educational Needs

VSK

Post 16 Support Officers attends local district meeting to raise issues and discuss concerns.

18Plus Service

Senior member of staff to attend to raise issues and hear of opportunities.Senior Staff member to cascade information to 18Plus staff.18Plus Service to raise awareness to needs/barriers of her cohort

Virtual School Kent

Transition Procedures May 2016 DRAFT

To support the transition of the Kent Children in Care and Care Leaver cohort, Virtual School Kent has developed a wide range of transitional activities outlined below:

Year Group Transitioning

Activity

Who Responsible

Working With

Current status

Year 11 Year 12

Year 11 Progression Support Officers in place in most locality areas to focus on cohort and link to Post 16 team and providers

Locality Assistant Heads

Post 16 Team, Skills and Employability, EET providers

In place

RAG on locality spreadsheets and RAP meetings taking place monthly


Locality Teams, Post 16 Team, CXK, external providers

In place in some locality areas

Year 11 letter outlining options

Post 16 drafted, Locality teams sent out

n/a

Completed in April 2016

Access to Kent Choices 4 U for VSK staff to support with tracking and monitoring of Post 16 Destinations



Completed

Discussions at Participation Forums across locality areas regarding providers and those at risk of NEET


Various KCC teams

Ongoing

Discussions at Participation Progression Operational Group and Interdependencies Group

Deputy Head Malcolm Thomas and Post 16 Assistant Head

Various KCC teams

Ongoing

Plan for supporting young person at results time onwards and into enrolment period

VSK Senior Leadership Team to agree process

External providers

To be arranged

PEPs and CIC reviews (including focus on transition PEPs where Post 16 provider may attend)


Education providers

In place

Newsletters (General VSK newsletter, Post 16 Newsletter, YAC and OCYPC newsletters) containing information regarding Post 16 plans

VSK Senior Leadership Team

n/a

In place

Training on the Post 16 Sector to Foster Carers, Social Workers, VSK staff to raise awareness of the options

Post 16 Assistant Head


Ongoing

Information on Websites VSK and Kent Cares Town


n/a

Ongoing

Monthly Top tips on website for young person outlining options and things to consider

Written by all of the Post 16 team.

n/a

Ongoing

Inviting EET providers to locality meetings to discuss cohort


External providers

Ongoing

Meeting young person in intended destination placement early to settle any concerns

Locality Teams and Post 16 Team

External providers

Ongoing

Link with Designated Member of Staff early where there are concerns over transition, in particular for those with SEN/EHCP


External Providers

Ongoing

OCYPC and YAC discussions around options

VSK Participation Team

Post 16 Team

Ongoing

Providers offering taster events/informal visits to support transition anxieties

VSK Post 16 Team and Locality Teams

External providers

Ongoing

Training offered to EET providers regarding awareness of supporting CIC/CL cohort

VSK Post 16 Assistant Head

External providers

Discussions started

Year 12- Year 13

All cohort allocated a VSK member of staff either the Locality Assistant Head or Post 16 Support Officer responsible for tracking, monitoring and onward destinations

Assistant Heads

n/a

In place

Post 16 Support Officers attending monthly Participation Forums in locality areas to discuss NEET cohort

Post 16 Team

Various KCC teams and external providers

In place


VSK staff

External providers

In place


VSK Participation Team and VSL SLT

n/a

In place

Training on the Post 16 Sector to Foster Carers, Social Workers, VSK staff to raise awareness and understanding of options



In place


Post 16 Team

n/a

In place

Facebook and Twitter - key information posted

SLT and Participation Team

n/a

In place

Link with Colleges to know who is offering further place for year 13

Post 16 Team

External providers

In place

VSK to identify those considering Higher Education and ensure supported with process

Assistant Heads

18+ Service

Just starting

Access to Kent Choices 4 U for VSK staff to support with tracking and monitoring of Post 16 Destinations

Assistant Heads

n/a

In place



Various KCC teams

In place

Plan for supporting young person at results time onwards and into enrolment period

Assistant Heads

External providers

In discussion



n/a

In place



External providers

In place


Locality Teams and Post 16 Teams

External providers. KCC SEN

In place but needs developing further

YAC discussions around options

Participation Team and Post 16 Team

n/a

In place


Post 16 Team

External providers

Ongoing



External providers

Ongoing

Year 13 Year 14

End of academic year transition meeting between VSK and 18+ Leaving Care Service to handover caseloads and provide background

Assistant Heads

18+ Service

To progress

PEPs kept open to continue into year 14 if required

VSK EPEP team

18+ Service and External providers

In place

VSK continue to be a source of information for 18+ staff once young person is in year 14


18+ Service

In place

All cohort allocated a VSK member of staff either the Locality Assistant Head or Post 16 Support Officer responsible for tracking, monitoring and onward destinations so can support onward destination into year 14

Assistant Heads

n/a

In place

Post 16 Support Officers attending monthly Participation Forums in locality areas to discuss NEET cohort and share with 18+ Service

Post 16 Team

Various KCC teams and external providers, 18+ Service

To develop


VSK staff

External providers, 18+ Service

In place


VSK Participation Team and VSL SLT

n/a

In place

Training on the Post 16 Sector to Foster Carers, Social Workers, VSK staff to raise awareness and understanding of options



In place


Post 16 Team

n/a

In place

Facebook and Twitter - key information posted


n/a

In place

Link with Colleges to know who is offering further place for year 14

Post 16 Team

External providers

In place

VSK to identify those considering/applying Higher Education and ensure supported with process

Assistant Heads

18+ Service

Just starting



Various KCC teams

In place



n/a

In place



External providers

In place


Locality Teams and Post 16 Teams

External providers. KCC SEN

In place but needs developing further

YAC discussions around options

Participation Team and Post 16 Team

n/a

In place


Post 16 Team

External providers

Ongoing



External providers

Ongoing

Young Person Identified at Risk of NEET

No September Guarantee/Leavers

Prevention

Monitor Starters / Leavers Data

Liaise with Providers and Transition Coordinators

Placement at Risk

A and P Officer

Crisis EHCP Review Meeting

HNF and Finance officers to be kept informed

EET

Placement Monitoring Client Contact

Termly Tracking Calls

NEET Cohort

Holistic Working

Case Reviews at NEET cohort meetings

Progress and Participation meetings

Identify Provision Gaps

Work with Providers for Bespoke Courses

Positive Destination to EET

FE College and Schools are consulted and are required to respond within 15 days.

Provision is named in EHCP

EHCP - Review


Intended Destination and September Guarantee

School Data

SEN Tracking Officer 2 per annum monitoring and Review meeting with Placement Provider

SEND NEET Prevention

SEN Specialist Research, IYSS, Impulse, Pupil Files and EHCP

Inform A and P Officer and Significant others

Contact Current Education Placement

Contact young Person/Parent/Carer

Specialist Information, Advice and Guidance

Action Plan Agreed

** County Panel has six weeks to consider a change of provision. If independent provision is requested, consideration by ISP Panel. Finance and High Needs Funding be kept informed

SEN NEET Flowchart

SEN Specialist Research, IYSS, Impulse, Pupil Files and EHCP

Contact Young Person / Parent / Carer

Specialist - Information, Advice and Guidance

Agree Action Plan

Inform A and P Officer and Significant Others

SEN Tracking will work for six weeks with age 20+ who drop out of college

Ready for EET

Placement Monitoring Client Contact

Termly Tracking Calls

Statutory: Ready for EET

Statutory: Consultation with provider

15 days to respond

Provision named in EHCP

EHCP - Review


Monitor Starters / Leavers Data

SEN Tracking Officer

2x PA Monitoring and Review Meeting with Placement

** Statutory:

Placement at Risk

A and P Officer

Crisis EHCP Review Meeting

HNF and Finance officers to be kept informed

Not yet ready for EET

SEN Specialist Tracking and Monitoring

Monthly Personal Calls

Case reviews at

Progress and Participation Meetings

Identify Provision Gaps

Work with Providers for Bespoke Courses

Those with significant barriers to Learning - Referral to Early Help Services / Open Access Services /SEN Specialist One-to-one appointments when appropriate

Holistic Working

NEET - EET

DfE NCCIS management information requirement for SEN students 2016 to 2017:

The SEND flag should remain on the young persons record throughout their further education and the young persons record remains in the data until their 20th birthday regardless of their activity.

LAs are required to provide information through NCCIS of young adults who have a SEND and whose permanent address is within the LA area. Young adults are defined as those who are between the calendar age of 20 and academic age 25, and 20-25 year olds should only be included in the XML extract if they have a current EHC plan or LDA.

Educated at Home Vision:

Ensuring all young people have Access to Education,

Reducing the risk of Young People who are Educated at Home becoming NEET

Engage with families in years 9 and 10 to plan an achievable route for the individual CYP.

Educated at Home NEET (AT risk of NEET) to EET

Young person identified as ready to EET

Follow up in September and confirm start

Action

Contact: Young Person Parent/Carer

Information: Independent Advice and Guidance

Record: September Guarantee

Record IYSS

Early Intervention Engage with Year 9 and 10


Follow up in September and confirm start


Pass CYP details to Early Help Youth Hub managers for interventions

No Engagement

Email/write/provide advice/dates and location of careers events/options available

Visit/provide advice/dates and location of careers events/options available

Families engage

Families decline to engage or inform

Young Person identified at Risk of NEET No September Guarantee/Leavers

IYSS

Impulse

Pupil Files

EHCP

Offer vulnerable families GCSE Math and English

Identify

EHPS Support for learners at risk of becoming NEET

EHPS Operational Guidance: NEET Business Processes Prevention & Support for Individual Learners

Introduction

1.1Responsibility for preventing young people from either becoming or remaining NEET rests with all services that are included within the partnership arrangements supporting the delivery of the NEET strategy

1.2Prevention, within the context of the NEET strategy, has the following core objectives:

(i) young people receive high quality Careers Education, Information, Advice & Guidance enabling them to make informed choices

(ii) maximising the number of young people making the transition between Years 11 & 12 and Years 12 & 13 who have a destination that matches their interests and competencies

(iii) enabling young people to sustain a commitment to their chosen destination and to have a clear vision as to future options

(iv) minimising the length of time any young person may spend as NEET by ensuring there are contingency arrangements in place in the event of a breakdown of his / her current EET opportunity

(v) the voice of the young person is consistently consulted when reviewing and revising the strategy

1.3Support, where there is no existing statutory responsibility for a young person, will be targeted at those for whom there is an evident barrier to successful engagement in EET opportunities. It is anticipated that the barriers will originate from behavioural and emotional well-being needs and that the interventions with young people will need to have as their outcomes:

(i) an increase in self-confidence, so enabling effective decision making

(ii) an assessment of their options with respect to both qualifications and career opportunities

(iii) improvement in attendance at either school (shared work with colleagues in PIAS will be central to this outcome) or at their chosen destination

(iv) re-engagement in a new destination

1.4The partnership arrangements will be co-ordinated via the District Participation meetings. The Chairs of the meetings will ensure:

(i) prevention initiatives and their outcomes are specifically addressed on the agenda of the monthly meetings

(ii) there is effective co-ordination between statutory services where young people may be included in one or more vulnerable groups (e.g. children in care, youth justice and SEND)

(iii) joint working relationships are in place with schools, Colleges and training providers to enable:

a. young people identified as vulnerable to becoming NEET are identified before a breakdown in their current arrangements breaks down

b. an overview can be seen of the extent to which EET provision is matched to known needs

c. outcomes (as recorded on IYSS) are widely shared to support an understanding of the effectiveness of preventative activities within the District

2. Information Sharing

2.1Where young people are not currently known to EHPS (including youth justice and PIAS), SCS or SEND, the amount of information to be shared by the referrer will:

(i) depend on level of the support thought to be required where there are complex/multiple needs where being NEET or at risk of becoming NEET is just one element of the overall need the referrer should follow the Early Help Notification process

(ii) where NEET / risk of NEET is the core concern the referrer (School, College, training provider) should be asked to complete the EHPS Request for Additional Support Form

(iii) the young persons consent to the notification / request being made will be a pre-requisite

3. Assessment Process

3.1Where the request is for Additional Support from EHPS the associated light-touch assessment form will be used to inform the type of intervention that may be undertaken with the young person. This assessment process will be informed by a small number of specific NEET prompt questions to ensure information is gathered consistently.

4. Interventions

4.1The type of interventions provided will vary as will be influenced by the needs being addressed, the involvement of partners (specifically schools and Pupil Referral Units) and the numbers of young people being referred.

4.2Where a school refers a group an Early Help Worker may run an intervention group on site in the school, or where numbers are small the approach may be either 1:1 or the use of group work in a Youth Hub.

4.3The interventions will need to explore with young people what their interests are and what EET opportunities do / will exist within a feasible travelling distance. Workers will need to be aware of the available provision and able to guide young people to key information sources (e.g. KentChoices4U)

4.4Following any intervention a young person should be introduced to and encouraged to maintain engagement with the universal offer by attending youth work activities, including those provided by the commissioned youth work service in their District.

5.Youth Offer

5.1The opportunities for young people that can be made available via the Youth Hubs and the commissioned youth work services will be publicised via:

(i) the District Participation Meetings and their links with schools, Colleges and training providers

(ii) the Link Workers with Schools who are based in Early Help

(iii) slots on the District Headteacher briefings

(iv) work in partnership with School Improvement so that they are aware of the offer and can, in turn, ensure schools are aware of the offer

6. Key Activities

(a) Planning

(i) a County Plan approved by the Interdependencies Group will be integral to the overall plan for preventative activities. The plan will be informed by the views of Colleges and training providers via consultation with KAFEC and KATO

(ii) the County Plan will inform and be informed by District Plans. The responsibility for the District Plans rests with the co-Chairs of the District Participation Meetings and will be informed by schools, Colleges and training providers

(iii) the Plans will detail:

a. the role of the District Participation meeting in supporting preventative activities

b. the preventative interventions to be provided by all services, including schools and other statutory provision, and the fit between them

c. the priorities for the District Participation meeting at key times of the year, e.g. activities supporting the September Guarantee procedures

d. the cycle of provision on offer and its availability to young people resident within the District

(b) Management Oversight

District Participation meetings will:

(i) maintain awareness of the young people in the District in Years 11 13 who are vulnerable to becoming / remaining NEET. All services are responsible for alerting the meetings to the young people known to them for whom there are concerns and the support being made available to them. This is to ensure that there is no risk of young people falling through gaps between services

(ii) use the management information available from IYSS Information and Intelligence and the EHPS MI Unit will ensure reports, available from the system, are relevant to the data requirements of Districts and will support their capacity to meet their information needs by service at District level

(iii) monitor the quality of data entered on individual case records held on IYSS and will ensure common concerns are addressed and resolved

Operational Activities EHPS

(i) Liaison with schools & other providers - the District Manager & Participation & Progression Manager must ensure discussions are held each September with mainstream secondary schools, special schools, Pupil Referral Units and Elective Home Education to ascertain those young people starting in Year 11 who are seen as vulnerable to becoming NEET when transitioning to Year 12

The meetings in September and October will need to have a specific focus on transition concerns, e.g. those at risk of no-show or dropping out / excluded at an early point so they can be supported by the relevant service to either remain in or return to provision before providers close down the opportunity

(ii) District Participation Meetings - the collated list of young people in Year 11, including those at PRUs and other Alternative Provision, seen as vulnerable is to be shared with all services represented at the District Participation meeting in either September or October to ensure the young people detailed, who are already known to one of the partners, are engaged in preventative activities

(iii) Partnership & information flows - joint consideration with the education provision, including PRUs, as to the potential barriers in individual cases to successful engagement in EET, the interventions the young people should be receiving and the service that should be delivering them. These discussions may be conducted either by the Link Workers for schools or via the District Participation Meeting

(iv) Interventions - EHPS to deliver agreed interventions. District Managers to monitor via the District Preparation Meetings whether other Services have engaged the young people identified.

(v) September Guarantee ensure via the District Participation Meetings that the SG process is being followed by schools, PRUs and other providers (Years 11 & 12, see separate guidance) and that all young people who have received / are receiving preventative interventions have a positive destination sorted by the end of May each year

(vi) Transition (Year 11 to 12, Year 12 to 13). EHPS staff are to monitor the outcomes for young people making the transition to new provision. Contingency arrangements to be initiated, with and by partners as appropriate, where the young person is vulnerable to becoming NEET / has become NEET (NB District Participation meetings to agree with providers a process of notification where problems are occurring for a young person in their placement)

(vii) Case Recording - all activity with individual young people in Years 11, 12 & 13 to be recorded on IYSS.

SEND Local offer Skills and Employability Participation Services

1) District Offer

The Skills and Employability Service has created a directory of training programmes that can support this cohort called the District Employability Offer, which can be found at www.kent.gov.uk/education-and-children/college-sixth-form-employment-and-training/help-for-young-people-who-arent-in-education-or-training. Within this function there is an interactive Google style map that allows young people, practitioners, parents and guardians to easily find Events, NEET programmes, Apprenticeships, Traineeships and employability programmes. The majority of these programmes are Entry level 3 level 1 and many have start dates throughout the academic year.

EXCITING NEW CHANGES TO THE DISTRICT OFFER

From October there will be a new website called ReadytoWork Kent which will replace the district offer. The user journey will follow a similar format to Grads Kent with a simpler way of entering the core information, and a new style to interact with. This will also reflect across to the Training Providers side with a very intuitive user-friendly interface to add and edit courses/training. Each provider will have their own account which will allow them to create their own offers and manage their own applicants through the system.

2) Apprenticeships

The Skills and Employability Service have developed a new apprenticeship recruitment website for Kent. www.apprenticekent.com is designed to help employers recruit simply and easily, whilst giving young people the best chance of finding an apprenticeship. The website is split broadly into four categories become an apprentice, employ an apprentice, train an apprentice and assist an applicant. The site has a messaging function built in, so all feedback, interview offers and recruitment can be done within the website, whilst the data collected will enable Skills and Employability to offer targeted support to those who need it.

KCC apprenticeships programme - lead officer Chris Homewood - [email protected]

Kent County Council has an ambitious goal to improve the skills and employment of the young people of Kent. And as a large employer it is important that KCC develops the range of work experience, graduate placements and apprenticeships we offer. The overarching aim is to make sure that there are a variety of entry points into KCC regardless of experience, qualifications or ability.

Kent County Council provides over 150 apprenticeships opportunities across a range of its directorates. In the last five years we have created 544 apprenticeship roles within the local authority.

We have integrated the apprenticeship recruitment process fully with our HR function and all apprenticeship vacancies are advertised through KCCs online recruitment website http://www.kent.gov.uk/jobs/starting-your-career/be-an-apprentice where a log in can be created and saved for future reference and used with ease.

Kent employment programme - lead officer Karen Laponder - [email protected]

The Kent Employment Programme (KEP) was a highly successful project designed to move unemployed 16-24 year olds into apprenticeships. The target of 900 young people into work was exceeded and now KEP would like to build on this success and move into phase two.

The first cohort of young people eligible for the grant fund will be 16-18 year olds who are NEET, or 16-18 year olds who are at risk of becoming NEET. All vacancies are advertised with our partners i.e. Special Schools, Early Help Services, KSE and the Troubled Families team and our website http://www.apprenticeshipkent.com/

Phase two of our successful Kent Employment programme has supported young people into apprenticeship has achieved 76% of all starts being NEETS.

Assisted apprenticeship programme- lead officer Karen Laponder - [email protected]

The Assisted Apprenticeship (AA) programme has delivered many successful outcomes over the years that it has been running and is highly valued by both employers and young people. The programme is aimed at young people with high needs and is designed to offer additional support to both employers and the young people, enhancing their chances of sustaining employment.

Referrals to the project will be made by the Employment Development Officers from the targeted work currently being undertaken in Special Schools, Early Help Services, KSE and the Troubled Families team. Working across our service, we will link into the Tracking team to increase awareness of our project and support the young people with disabilities already in the system and who are seeking employment. We also work closely with our partners to promote the other roles we have available through the different programmes we run.

During the last two years we have had 14 Care leavers start apprenticeships in our Assisted Apprenticeships programme. Over the last two years we have had 74 starts across six cohorts in the programme and we have been able to offer 19% of all starts to our care leavers.

3) Work Experience

Work experience opportunities - lead officer Owen Bartholomew - [email protected]

We areone of the largest employers in Kent and we have a variety of different roles. Every year we receive over 400 requests for work experience, we have many different types of placements ina number of departments, for examples see the list below:

care work

countryside access

information technology

Kent Film Office

Kent Scientific Services

Kentish Stour Countryside Partnership

libraries

Medway Valley Countryside Partnership

North West Kent Countryside Partnership

satellite services - an insight into health and social care

school financial services

social care for older adults

sports and leisure

We have a simple on line application form to complete using this link: http://www.kent.gov.uk/jobs/starting-your-career/work-experience. Whenthey have submitted their application they willget an email to confirm it has been received. Once the application has been reviewed this will besent to the relevant team offering the placement for afinal decision. Once the decision has been made the young person will be contacted to make arrangements between both parties to start the work experience following the agreed process. Each manager and young person will be given a guide to record the progress they achieve during their placement.

4) Kent Supported Employment

If you have a disability, we can provide high quality support to help you prepare for, enter into and succeed in the world of work. To use our services you need to be referred to us by your care manager.

Once we've received the referral we will get in touch and arrange to meet you. We will talk about your work needs and expectations and decide if our service can meet your needs.

Preparing for work

To prepare you for the world of work we can help with:

Vocational profile - a person centred tool to help you make informed choices about the job you would like to do and see what your skills and aspirations are.

CV preparation - why CVs are important and the techniques employers use when shortlisting. We can help you create a new CV or update an existing one.

Application forms - different types of forms and how to answer certain types of questions.

Interview skills - many people find interviews daunting, we can help with what to expect and practice interviews.

Travel training - become more confident using public transport and learning new routes. Job coaches can also travel with you while you learn to be independent.

Benefit advice and guidance - how any benefits you receive will be affected if you work and do better off calculations.

Work experience and tasters - if you are new to work or want to change careers these can help you try a new role.

Job coaches

When you first start your job we can give you in work support to help you learn your new job. This could be things like:

creating task lists which you understand

visual prompts to help you learn

getting to know the work environment

meeting your new team and colleagues

understanding rules and responsibilities.

We can also provide job coaching if you are in danger of losing your job due to a disability or health condition. We can help by:

understanding the job role

liaising with managers and HR to identify areas of concern

negotiating flexible working conditions and reasonable adjustments in the workplace (if appropriate)

contacting Department of Work and Pensions about assessments and adaptations.

Getting a referral

To get a referral:

If you have a Kent County Council care manager, tell them you are interested in entering the world of work and ask them to refer you to Kent Supported Employment.

If you don't have a care manager, contact our social services team and ask for an assessment.

Job Centre Plus

Jobcentre Plus Support for Schools

Jobcentre Plus (JCP) support for schools was a manifesto commitment and announced in the 2015 Summer Budget. It is intended to assist schools in England to deliver their statutory duty to provide high quality, independent and impartial careers advice to pupils aged from 12/13 up to 17/18 (school years 8 to 13).

It is aimed at facilitating an effective transition from school to work, training or further study and we anticipate will add value in three broad areas:

providing advice on routes into traineeships and Apprenticeships;

sourcing and advising on work experience opportunities, using JCPs extensive network of employers; and

providing advice on the local labour market (including soft skills employers value, such as team working and commitment).

How will this support be delivered?

National overview

JCP support will be demand-led by schools, responsive and flexible. It will be directed particularly at those young people schools identify as being at risk of becoming NEET (not in employment, education or training), or who may otherwise be disadvantaged in the labour market for example those with a health or disability issue, or from a minority ethnic background.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is working in partnership with the Careers and Enterprise Company (CEC) and the National Careers Service to ensure JCP support is aligned with that of other organisations, avoids duplicating or replacing existing support already available to schools through other sources, and does not add further complexity to a landscape that is already difficult for schools to navigate. A network of CEC Enterprise Advisers (EAs) will work directly with the leadership of individual schools and colleges (one adviser per school/college) to help develop effective engagement plans with employers and other sources of support including Jobcentre Plus. JCP support will hence comprise one element in the wider toolkit of support that the CEC will facilitate for schools.

In districts where rollout of JCP support precedes that of the EA network (for example, in Birmingham and Solihull) JCP is liaising with the Local Enterprise Partnership, Local Authority and other organisations to ensure JCP support complements existing provision and represents an attractive offer to schools that can be slotted into the CEC toolkit of support once the EA network is in place.

Kent roll out

Specialist work - the resource of four lead workers will be optimised and have most effect with specialist coaches working across Kent with students identified as needing specific support .

Building School staff capability - staff in schools across the county have limited knowledge of recruitment practices and requirements for todays labour market and therefore day workshops will be delivered by DWP coachs to build capability in schools.

DWP Jobcentre surgeries (name not yet settled) to be set up at Local Youth Hubs across the county (approx. 20 Hubs) where A local Jobcentre coach is to spend a day per week providing support to local school children with employment related activities CV writing, interview techniques, arranging for a local employer to give a talk, jobs fares the list is not exhaustive. The Schools in the local area would be given spaces for each surgery, ensuring every surgery was full. This would be monitored by the LA.

For more information please contact:

Rajmund Brent: [email protected]

03000 410099 / 07717507160

Summary of Tracking Requirements from Schools, Actions and Deadlines 2016-2017

Action

Data collection Method

Data transfer method

When

Deadline

Responsible KCC service

How data supports schools and young people

Sixth Form Enrolment data

1. School completes Post 16 Enrolment Template **

2. Information returned to KCC using Perspective Lite

Perspective Lite

16th September

16th September

Management Information

Data used to provide Destination and Activity Survey reports for individual schools in January

Year 11 and Year12 Leaver data.

Information you hold on young people who have left school in 2016 after Years 11 and 12

1. KCC provides schools with a pre-populated template of their Year 11 and Year 12 leavers who do not appear on any school or college enrolment lists

2. Schools add destination information to the template

3. Information returned to KCC by Egress email

Egress secure email

17- 30th October

ASAP or

4th November

4th November

Skills & Employability Service

Intended Destination

What your current Year 11 Age intend to do in September.

1. Schools collect data from Year 11 learners

2. Schools complete Intended Destination template


Perspective Lite

November -January

31st January


Used in schools to identify young people who may need support

September Guarantee

Information on offers you have made to internal and external applicants for current Years 11 and 12

1. Schools make offers to Year 11 learners through UCAS progress data collected centrally by KCC

2. Offers made to: Year 11 learners outside UCAS progress and all Year 12 learners collected on a September Guarantee template

3. Information sent to KCC using Perspective Lite

4. Final return of offers made by your school

Perspective Lite

31st March

31st March

31st May

31st March


Used in schools and NEET to EET meetings to identify post 16 provision for young people without a September Guarantee offer

September Guarantee (2)

Information you hold on Years 11 and 12 with no recorded offers

1. KCC to provide schools with lists of young people without a recorded offer via Egress email

2. Schools to provide intelligence they have via Egress email

Egress secure email

8th June

30th June

Skills & Employability Service

As above

Leavers and Joiners

Year 9 or above who have left or joined your school in the relevant month

3. Schools complete leaver and joiner template each month


Perspective Lite

Each month

31st of each month

Management Information Unit

Used to identify young people who need support from KCC Services

Changes to the process:

New templates are being used in 2016-17 to reflect the need to capture phone numbers in all returns, these can be downloaded from:

www.kelsi.org.uk/running-a-school/data-and-reporting/management-information/tracking-young-people

From September 2016 there will be no requirement to return information on the destinations of those learners who completed Year 14 in July 2016, unless they were in accelerated learning. This reflects the DfEs decision to only track young people up until the end of the academic year in which they turn 18 ( ages 16 and 17), unless they have a current Education, Health and Care Plan. In these cases they will still be tracked until they turn 25.

Careers Education

The National Careers Service

The National Careers Service provides information, advice and guidance across England to facilitate decision making on learning, training and work opportunities. The service offers confidential and impartial advice. This is supported by qualified careers advisers.

The Service believes that everyone has the ability and potential to develop and grow in their lives and careers but that sometimes life events can be a barrier to this progression. The National Careers Service website aims to:

help with careers decisions and planning

support reviewing skills and abilities and develop new goals

motivate implementation of plans of action

Enable impactful use of high quality career related tools.

The need for more skills and qualifications is paramount. The NCS supports making the right decisions about learning and development, building on strengths, improving areas of weakness, and helping identification of a job or career that suits skills and personality.

The web site can be found here:

https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk/aboutus/Pages/default.aspx

For more information please contact:Rajmund Brent; [email protected] 03000 410099 / 07717 507160

The Careers Enterprise Company and the Enterprise Co-ordinator

The Enterprise Coordinator is the pivotal role in The Careers and Enterprise Companys national programme and critical to achieving its aim of motivating, inspiring and supporting young people in making informed choices about their future and help them achieve against those choices.

The Enterprise Coordinator sits at the heart of a local cluster system intended to:

-Help schools and colleges to enhance their careers and enterprise activities with strengthened employer engagement with evidenced impact

- Facilitate employers and self-employed impactful engagement with schools and colleges

-Focus stakeholders efforts on programmes and activities that are most effective in motivating young people, supporting independent and impartial choice, and supporting positive outcomes for young people

Enterprise Coordinator(s) will do this by working with 20 coastal schools already identified to be part of The Careers and Enterprise Companys programme, and will then match each school and college with an Enterprise Adviser. Enterprise Advisers are volunteers who have been drawn from local employers or the self- employed who will work with a school or college (matched 1:1) to support that school or college in developing an effective careers and enterprise strategy. These Enterprise Advisers will have been recruited by the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) Executive.

The Enterprise Coordinator will work with schools and colleges and their Enterprise Advisers to conduct an initial diagnostic of their careers and enterprise strategy, and will support the Enterprise Adviser in optimising this strategy.

The Enterprise Coordinator will help ensure that the best local careers and enterprise provision is made available to schools and colleges in their area by acting as a core link to existing provision. The Enterprise Coordinator will also help stimulate more provision where necessary by working closely with the Enterprise Advisers, local employers, and with the central team at The Careers and Enterprise Company.

The role will involve regular contact with senior people across a wide range of partners including:

Schools and colleges and employers/the self-employed

Local, regional and national skills organisations and education/training providers

Business representative organisations and third sector partners

The Local Authority

The National Careers Service Prime Contractor

The Careers and Enterprise Company

For more information in house please contact:Rajmund Brent: [email protected] 03000 410099 / 07717 507160

MI data reports Good practice guide

Performance Reporting

Operational Reporting

IYSS Guidance

This guidance details how all services will meet the responsibilities for recording and reporting on the participation and destinations of the 16 18 years academic age group see Appendix 2.

The guidance includes:

(i) the arrangements within EHPS for the use of IYSS to: enable recording and reporting of the participation and destinations of young people, aged 16 18 years academic age group, in line with the District based structure of the Early Help and Preventative Services

(ii) the form for manual recording of the participation and destination of a young person, which is to be then shared with Business Support to enable initiating / updating of their case record (see Annex A of Appendix 2)

(iii) the form to be used for recording the consent of a young person to their data being entered on to IYSS (Annex B of Appendix 2)

(iv) advice (Handy Tips Annex E of Appendix 2) to assist accurate recording of destinations and their chronological order

16 18 Years

The Guidance applies to those:

(i) 16 year olds - a young person is reported as being in statutory education until the end of the academic year when they reach the compulsory school leaving age

(ii) 16 - 18 year olds - those young people who:

a. have reached the compulsory school leaving age but who are of academic age, 16 18 years

b. are resident in the Kent Local Authority area

Monthly Returns to the Department for Education

Management Information (Information and Intelligence) is responsible for submitting monthly returns to the National Client Caseload Information System, managed by the Department for Education, detailing the number of young people aged 16 18 years:

(i) who are Not in Education, Employment or in Training (NEET)

(ii) whose current participation and destination is unknown

(iii) who are EET based on destination types

The quality of the data provided in these returns is dependent on those working with the young people in this age group, including EHPS staff, ensuring that:

(i) existing individual case records are kept up to date

(ii) a record is established on IYSS where the participation and destination of a young person has not been previously known or contact has been lost so preventing the case record being updated

Staff Development and Training

IYSS Training

Training is available to learn how to use and gain access to IYSS. The training is a one day course and includes basic navigation, how to update and maintain records and reporting from IYSS.

To book a place on any of these courses log on to KCC Employee Self-Service, go to learner home and search for IYSS. You will then be able to select and enroll on any of the available dates.

If you have a number of people and wish to arrange training in your own venue, require refresher / top-up training or have bespoke training needs contact the Systems Training Officer; [email protected] to arrange training.

Level 4 Advice and Guidance

The Diploma in advice and guidance is designed to support all candidates whether they are new to this arena or a currently practicing. The Advice and Guidance Diploma covers skills that are transferable across a broad range of sectors such as:

Support services

Advocacy

Housing

Mentoring

Youth Services

Counselling

Debt advice

Citizens advice

Employment advisor

Career advisors

The course is suitable for individuals whose role may involve disseminating information, providing advice and guidance and offering advocacy. In addition you may have managerial or training responsibilities. Your role may involve face-to-face contact with clients and/or contact by phone

We are able to offer an 8 day delivery programme in level 4 Diploma Advice and Guidance which mixes theories, best practice discussion and assessment with four hours of weekly support to back up the classroom delivery.

The programme comprises of 6 Training days plus two days one to one assessment and observation. Training days are split into two parts with morning sessions being taught work to discuss Guidance theories and concepts plus discussions on best practice. Afternoon sessions are used for Action planning and evidence collection to support how the learner will collect evidence and plan for their assignments.

To book or for more information contact:Rajmund Brent; [email protected] 03000 410099 / 07717 507160Dan Ratcliff; [email protected] 03000 416597 / 07872 418116

Useful Documents

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

Appendix 4

Appendix 5

VSK Transition Policy

Aug 2016 V2

Corporate Parenting

Education, Training and Employment

Policy

Key Stage 4 and Beyond

2016

Date:

Author:

Version:

Table of Contents:

1) Vision for Kent Children in Care and Care Leavers

2) Voice of the Young Person

3) Virtual School Kent

4) Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children/Young People

5) 18Plus Service

6) Vulnerable Groups

7) Other Key Agencies/Contacts

8) Transition Summary

9) Supporting Documents

10) 18Plus Service Supporting Documents

1) Vision for Kent Children in Care and Care Leavers:

1.1 The authority has a responsibility to provide a full range of opportunities and support to allow a young person to access and progress in Education, Training and Employment through their transition from Key Stage 4 into Key Stage 5 and beyond.

1.2 The authoritys aim is to ensure every young person is engaged in purposeful education and training and is well prepared for skilled employment and further and higher learning.

1.3 We will achieve our vision by working in partnership across agencies, all types of providers, Health, Skills & Employability, Early Help and Preventative Services, Special Educational Needs, Youth Offending, Foster Carers, local communities and other relevant individuals to best support our young people.

2) Voice of the young person:

Participation

2.1 The Participation and Engagement Team sits within Virtual School Kent. They run activity days for Kent Children in Care and Young Care Leavers in the school holidays that allow young people to give their opinions, meet other young people with similar experiences, build confidence and have fun.

2.2 The team also facilitate three council groups for young people to give their opinions about being in care and leaving care and how it can be made better. Each group has named themselves and have designed their own logos and decided how they want to run.

Our Children and Young Peoples Council (OCYPC)

2.3 Our Children and Young Peoples Council has been running for several years now and was originally the only group in Kent for young people to give their opinions about the care system. The group is now for 11-16 year olds.

2.4 The OCYPC have done a lot of work to help to shape the services that they use. Some of the work they have done includes: designing our Kent Pledge cards, given opinions on what makes a good social worker, attended the Corporate Parenting Panel and met with many senior members of Kent County Council staff and Council Members.

Young Adults Council (YAC)

2.5 The Young Adult Council is for 16+ young people. The group started in 2015 and is now very successful. Recently, the young people have helped to redesign pathway plans, given opinions on our website, floating support and accommodation services. They are also planning to do a 25km walk around London to raise money for The Who Cares? Trust.

2.6 In addition to giving opinions, the YAC group have been doing activities to develop their learning. This has included: CV Skills, First Aid, Cooking on a Budget and Health.

Interview Panels

2.7 Kent County Council believes that it is really important to include young people who have had experience of the care system when they are recruiting new staff who are going to be working with children and young people. Because of this, we have a number of young people that regularly sit on interview panels for Social Workers, Foster Carers, IROs and other senior roles.

2.8 For each interview panel, young people will be supported by a member of the Participation Team and will receive a gift voucher for giving up their time. We also have training available for young people that want to be involved in interview panels that is a recognised national qualification.

Feedback

2.9 Feedback will be gathered from the young people through accessing the OCYPC and YAC forums, through staff reviews with young people, through end of academic year forums. This policy will be presented to OCYPC and YAC to capture feedback.

3) Virtual School Kent:

3.1 The Virtual School acts as a local authority champion to bring about improvements in the education and health of Children in Care (CiC) and Young Care Leavers (YCL) and to promote their educational achievement as if they were in a single school. Ensuring that they receive a high quality education is the foundation for improving their lives through:

Influencing policy and develop and improve services for CiC and YCL.

Promoting individual achievement, health, and wellbeing.

Providing advice, support and training to professionals, schools, colleges and institutions.

Improving access to specialist services, including health assessments, mental health assessments and treatment.

Providing access to professional advice and guidance on education, training and employment.

Providing additional opportunities for out of school learning and leisure.

Facilitate access to early education and child care.

Key Stage 4 Structure:

3.2 For those young people in Key Stage 4, they are supported by the Virtual School Kent Locality Teams lead by a VSK Assistant Head. The team includes a Year 11 Progression Support Officer who will be focusing on the year 11 cohort of young people to support and identify Key Stage 5 intended plans. This member of staff will work closely with the young person, their school, foster carer and social worker. Links will also be made with the Key Stage 5 team of Virtual School Kent.

3.3 The young person may be discussed at the local area District Partnership Meetings lead by the Skills & Employability team. This meeting brings together key professionals from a variety of KCC teams, external education providers and lead professionals for the vulnerable cohorts to identify possible EET opportunities and to discuss local area needs and gaps in provision.

3.4 The Year 11 Progression Support Officers are funded through Pupil Premium + and work term time only.

Key Stage 5 Structure:

3.5 For those young people in Key Stage 5, they will be supported by the Locality Team if accessing a sixth form provision. For all other young people, they will be