Detail of Provision
Regional priorities
(regional priorities are standard across all five specifications)
The principal aims
for the 2011-13 programmes are to reduce the number of young people
who are NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) and provide
additional support for young people at risk of becoming NEET.
Since April 2010
Local Authorities have the statutory duty to make provision for the
16-18 age group resident in their area. Recognising the new
statutory role of Local Authorities, provision should take account
of any individual Local Authority commissioning priorities set out
below in this specification, which complement the core requirements.
Applicants will also need to take account of Local Authority
boundaries for delivery volumes.
The activities listed below are not exclusive and tenders may
propose other activities relevant to either programme: these should
include evidence of effective results for the intended target
groups.
Core Requirements
Provision will place particular
emphasis on recruiting young people in priority groups who are NEET
(this will usually be 17 and 18 year olds rather than 16 year olds)
or are at risk of becoming NEET. Examples of priority groups of
young people may include:
g
Young people with learning
difficulties, disabilities and health conditions, with a particular
focus on those with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties (BESD)
g
Teenage parents, building where
possible on Parents to Be programmes
g
Truants (within the support
programme) and those with a history of truancy
g
Looked After Children (within the
support programme) and those leaving care
g
Offenders and ex-offenders
g
Travellers
g
Young people educated otherwise than at school (within the support
programme)
g
Young people in low income households where there is high welfare
dependency
The NEET reduction programme will
provide individually tailored packages of education and support,
which will enable the engagement of young people 16-18 who are NEET
into education and training. Activities
to be deployed for the next three years may include:
g
Roll-on roll-off engagement
programmes to include mentoring, personal development, vocational
experience, sporting and creative activities and taster sessions
leading to progression into mainstream provision.
g
Projects to improve access to and
retention within mainstream vocational learning provision and family
learning programmes through employment of vocational/educational
support workers to work with target groups.
g
Supporting vulnerable young people
into employment with training through support packages linked to
mainstream programmes. These will assist with transitions and
ongoing learning within employment, including employment brokerage,
mentoring and support for young people, as well as additional
support for employers who are prepared to engage the hardest to
reach.
g
Additional support to better meet
the needs of learners with learning difficulties through improved
skills development and employment opportunities, and driving
improvements and innovation in provision. This could include
additional employability skills such as work experience,
internships, job coaching and job mentoring.
g
Projects working with young people
as they enter back into the community after a period in a young
offenders institution, focusing on mentoring, training and
employment within a multi-agency approach.
g
Projects that use the inspiration
and opportunities of the Games in 2012 to support young people’s
engagement in vocational learning and pathways to employment - for
example projects linked to sport, creative/culture, leisure and
tourism, construction as well as those which incorporate the themes
and values of the Games, including volunteering.
The support programme, which will form one third of total
participants in each Local Authority area, will provide additional
support to 14-18* year olds at risk of becoming NEET. Activities may
include:
g
Support provided specifically to
enable young people to progress from full time compulsory education
to continued learning or employment with training.
g
Projects to improve retention within
mainstream post-16 vocational learning provision and family learning
programmes through employment of vocational/educational support
workers to work with target groups.
g
Provision of work-related summer
programmes of activities that assist young people with transition
from compulsory education into post-16 provision, focusing on those
who have been highlighted by Connexions or schools as potential NEET.
Local priorities for SE/YP/01
Additional local priorities for
provision in
Kent and Medway
are to provide a bridge towards Foundation Learning (known as A2B in
Kent and Medway) and support the widening of the range of pathways
within A2B available to young people to progress to education,
training or employment. Provision should be suitable for young
people who have struggled in mainstream provision. For those in
special provision, provision should support access to mainstream
education and training.
Kent and Medway’s
specific priority groups are:
g
Teenage parents;
g
17 and 18 year olds who do not have the entry criteria to access
their next level of learning and who would benefit from a transition
programme focussing on skills gaps that would enable access to their
chosen pathway. Mentoring support may be provided to support
transition.
g
Young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties, the
priority is for those who would benefit from a bespoke programme of
learning, with mentoring, to provide a transition from mainstream
education into the further education sector, particularly where
Foundation Learning programmes do not provide appropriate specialist
training.
g
Young people choosing to enter employment after the end of their
compulsory education, a programme of in-depth employability skills
with work placements in their chosen vocation.
g
Those at risk of
dropping out of school, focussing on schools with the highest risk
of this.
Local priorities for
SE/YP/02
Additional local
priorities for provision in East Sussex are: to have a
particular emphasis on supporting transition to employment,
reflecting the significant numbers of young people who choose this
route rather than progressing to education and training; provision
that takes account of some 30% of young people NEET in East Sussex
being qualified to Level 2 and above; the needs of those with
accommodation and substance misuse issues; those groups listed in
the core requirements.
Activity should be
focussed in the following geographical areas: Hastings, Eastbourne,
rural Rother, and the coastal strip of Newhaven and Peacehaven.
For Brighton and
Hove specific priorities are: ‘Preparation for Learning’ courses
that include Literacy and Numeracy tuition and wrap around support
which would be aimed at young people entering college and would
reduce the likelihood of disengagement and offer an insight into
college life; ‘Preparation for Work’ courses focussing on employment
skills and personal and social development.
These courses should
be available both during the year and across the summer.
There should be a
focus on 17 year olds and an additional target group for the
insecurely housed.
For Surrey
specific priorities are: to
Increase participation, particularly
among vulnerable groups, including learners with learning
difficulties and/or disabilities, looked-after children, young
people from the Gypsy, Romany and Traveller communities and young
parents; to focus on narrowing the gap between the attainment of
vulnerable groups and those without apparent risk factors.
For West Sussex specific priorities
are: to develop engagement programmes which run over the summer
holidays in NEET hotspot areas such as Worthing and Crawley; to
engage employers in the delivery of specific aspects of the
Foundation Learning provision to develop viable routes into
employment with training; to provide one to one support for young
people with special educational needs, particularly
for students on the autistic spectrum who need support to
acclimatize to a new learning and/or work environment.
Local priorities for
SE/YP/03
(apply to all 4 geographical areas
in this specification)
Additional local
priorities for this area include:
g
Enhancements to Key Stage 4 Foundation Learning opportunities
g
Development of progression opportunities for those completing a one
year programme post-16 but who are unable to progress to the next
Level (to reduce drop out at age 17)
g
Development of opportunities for young people in seasonal employment
in sectors such as tourism and agriculture.
Specific priority
groups of young people are:
g
Early leavers from post 16 education, ensuring prompt progression to
further learning/employment/training
g
Travellers (for Hampshire only)
g
14-16 year olds at risk of becoming NEET post-16. Opportunities
should be linked to the enhanced Key Stage 4 Foundation Learning
programme
g
Those undertaking an alternative education programme (Hampshire
only)
The following
geographical areas should have a particular priority for targeting
within Hampshire: Havant, Gosport, Rushmoor, Basingstoke and
Andover.
Local priorities
(apply to all 6 geographical areas
in this specification)
An additional local
priority for this area is that for those young people who enter work
or training at 16 and subsequently drop out aged 17 or 18, account
is taken of their circumstances and the reasons why their initial
choices at 16 were unsuccessful.
Specific priority
groups of young people across both programmes and across the six
authorities are:
g
Those with learning difficulties or disabilities
g
Teenage parents
g
Young Offenders
There are additional
local priority groups of young people across both programmes as
follows:
g
Bracknell Forest – socially excluded white males
g
Reading and Wokingham - Young people of Caribbean origin
g
Slough – refugees and unaccompanied young people
g
Windsor and Maidenhead - Travellers
g
West Berkshire and Wokingham – young people living in rural areas
Within the support programme,
proposed activity should prioritise the areas within Berkshire which
figure highest, both in the local Indices of Deprivation and with
the highest levels of entry into NEET, including the south and west
of Reading and areas within Bracknell Forest and Slough.
Additionally, as with the NEET reduction programme, young people
living in rural areas should not be overlooked. Provision
should be sufficiently flexible so as to enable integration with
mainstream provision delivered in local schools and other settings.
Local priorities
(specific to SE YP5, all 3 areas)
Additional local priorities for this
area: Personalised one to one support; Group activities including
short courses; ICT and other innovations; Mentor/ personal adviser
support – acting as lead professional for young person with
associated budget; Greater use of VCS/ 3rd sector; To use
work experience as part of programme and progression opportunities
Priority Groups
g
Young People who have been in NEET
for 27-52 weeks
g
Those young people who are living
independently
Geographical areas
g
Those ward areas identified as
having disproportionately high levels of young people who are NEET
g
Those schools who are statistically
shown to have disproportionately high levels of young people who
reach minimum leaving age and become NEET
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