PA Bulletin 17th February 2010

The Connexions Surrey bulletin is produced every two weeks and we aim to keep you up to date with current issues and aware of news that is relevant to your day to day jobs. The bulletin sits alongside the PA Resource section of the website.

1. NEET: Update, Job Opportunities, Apprenticeships and Activities Calendar

1a. Redeployment Support Programme

2. Connexions Training Programmes

3. Surrey County Council Courses

4. Surrey Job Centre Plus - Management Contacts

5. Woking Dance Festival is seeking additional dancers aged 13 - 21 years

6. Reigate Prince’s Trust Team starts on March 8^th.

7. Children, Schools and Families News Bulletin

8. National Connexions Network E-news

9. Children in out-of-work benefit households May 2008

10. Army Bursaries for Further Education

11. Steps Ahead Programme

12. Changes to jobcentre telephony

13. Waverley Training Services

14. LDD Adult and Community Learning for 16 to 25 years

15. How to contact Surrey Family Information Service

16. Family Literacy, Language and/or Numeracy

17. Catch22 Projects: Set4Success & Set4Life

 

 

1.  NEET  

UPDATE: How well are we doing? Click Here for the latest graphs on NEET & Unknowns.

 

Job Opportunities for Young People: Our Centres produce regular listings of local opportunities. Vacancy Bulletins are now listed on the Connexions website Job search page and you can also pick up copies from your local Centre to share with the young people you are currently working with. Please also direct your young people to our website and encourage them to spend a few minutes completing a few questions which will open up the database of jobs relevant and available to them.

 

 

 

Apprenticeships for Young People: Please go to our Apprenticeships page to make sure you are aware of the most up to date listings of apprenticeships in Surrey. Please ensure you make every effort to promote all of the apprenticeship opportunities to your clients - particularly vacancies that are in red as they have recieved no applications.

 

 

1a. Redeployment Support Programme

This project exists to support apprentices who are made redundant. This flyer is designed to inform parents of support available for their child should they be an apprentice and at risk of redundancy. Hopefully this will be useful and will ensure that apprentices do not miss the opportunity to benefit from the programme should they have been made redundant or at risk of being made redundant. Flyer

 

 

Apprenticeship Grant for Employers of apprentices aged 16 and 17 (AGE 16 and 17)

 

As you may be aware, the National Apprenticeship Service is providing up to 5,000 Apprenticeship Grants for Employers of 16 and 17 year olds (AGE 16 and 17) with a value of £2,500 to encourage employers to take on new 16 and 17 year old apprentices immediately. The £2,500 grant is in addition to the cost of training, which is already met by the National Apprenticeship Service.

Our aim is to support employers to offer new and additional Apprenticeship job opportunities for young people.  We will be targeting employers, particularly small and medium sized employers, who would not otherwise be in a position to recruit an apprentice at this point in time as well as those employers who are able to offer more Apprenticeship places than they would otherwise have done.

The grant is available now. It is a short-term, time-limited, measure and is available immediately for employers who are able to offer a job opportunity to an unemployed young person who will need to have been recruited and in work before the end of March 2010.

Take up of this initiative from employers interested in employing young people has been significant and due to the short timescale of the young people needing to be recruited before the end of March, it is important to maximise publicity of these vacancies to young people. 

 Connexions PAs need to be aware of the relevance of the highlighted vacancies on the vacancy lists and are bringing this to the attention of the young people that they work with as a matter of urgency?

http://www.guildford.ac.uk/Employers/Apprenticeships/AGE.aspx

Leaflet

 If you have any queries regarding the vacancies, please contact Alison.williams@apprenticships.gov.uk.  If you have any queries regarding the grant please contact Malcolm.wright@apprenticeships.gov.uk (AGE 16 & 17 grant coordinator)

 

 

 

 

 

NEET Activities CALENDAR: To publicise an event please contact: Jemma Campbell-Scott at Connexions Surrey jemma.campbellscott@surreycc.gov.uk  - Tel: 01483 519350

 

 

2. Connexions Training Programmes

To register for any of the following courses:  Please complete the attached application form and email it to Corinne Ford at corinne.ford@surreycc.gov.uk and cc your line manager and if from VT helen.coomber@vtplc.com

 

Introduction to ADAPT

Aim - To provide training on the use of Adapt and obtain a good understanding of the system. As a result of the course participants should have a good understanding of Adapt and be able to record work with clients.  The course covers:

• Adding and amending records for clients
• Recording contacts/plans
• Recording letters and telephone contacts
• Joining and leaving clients to NEET
• Recording a Potential/Actual Endorsement
• Recording Group Sessions etc
• Be able to record work with providers/opportunities
• Adding new providers
• Amending records
• Recording a visit
• Adding and submitting an opportunity
• Recording the outcome of a submission
• Putting an opportunity on HOLD and then back on to LIVE & Cancelling an Opportunity

 

Date	Times	Venue
8/04/10	09:45-15:30	Redhill Connexions Centre

                    

 

 

 

 

 

ADAPT Workshop

Aim: To provide training on the use of Adapt and obtain a better understanding of the system and to:

• Manipulate data in a record card
• Manipulate data in the daily planner
• Run both formal searches and a magic search
• Manipulate search result
• Print search results
• Run a report to obtain statistical data

 

Dates	Times	Venue
15/04/10	09:45-15:30	Redhill Connexions Centre

 

 

 

Introduction to Connexions

Aim - To give all Personal Advisers who have either been working less than 9 months as a Connexions PA or are new in their role, an understanding of:

• Connexions, agencies associated and “What is happening in Surrey”
• An introduction to the PA handbook and identification of how it should be used by PAs
• Multi-agency working and implications on the “wider perspective”
• “Principles and Values” that all PAs should adopt
• The Professional Development that should either be completed by all PAs or is available as additional optional training
• The booking procedures for individual training courses or workshops

 

Date

Times

Venue

 No set dates - please email corinne.ford@surreycc.gov.uk to be put on a waiting list

 

Student Loans Company Finance Presentation

This is an opportunity for PAs to learn how to signpost to resources available by the Student Loans Company that can be used to inform students who are applying to HE. Although this course is primarily for heads of sixth form and student service advisors in sixth form and FE colleges, PAs are also welcome to attend.

 

Date	Times	Venue
25/02/10	09:30-12:30	Manor House Hotel, Newlands Corner, Guildford

 

Please complete the attached application form and email it to Corinne Ford at corinne.ford@surreycc.gov.uk and cc your line manager and if from VT helen.coomber@vtplc.com

 

 

 

 

 

3. Surrey County Council Courses  - The following courses are available to all Connexions Personal Advisers. 

  

CAF One Day Multi-Agency training for Users – Guidance

Identifying young people's drug/alcohol related needs: Half-day course.

 

Learning outcomes - By the end of the course participants will:

•    Have refreshed their understanding of young people's drug and alcohol use

•    Looked at ways of assessing a young person’s drug/alcohol use in terms of the harm it can cause the user, their family and the community

•    Be able to use the Tool to Identify Young People’s Drug/Alcohol Needs (which is part of the Common Assessment Framework)

•    Be aware of drug and alcohol services for young people and how to refer to them.

 

Dates	Times	Venues
23/02/10	09.30-12.30	County Hall (G9)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Responding to young people with drug/alcohol needs- Half day course 

 

(This course follows on from the Identifying young people's drug/alcohol related needs course or can be completed as a stand alone course).

 

Learning outcomes - By the end of the course participants will:

•  Have explored the reasons why young people use drugs and alcohol and role drug/alcohol use can play in young people’s lives;

•  Have explored evidenced based interventions for working with young people, including brief interventions;

•  Have gained an understanding of the key components of confidentiality and child protection in relation to young people's drug/alcohol use;

•   Be aware of drug and alcohol services for young people and how to refer to them.

 

Dates	Times	Venues
23/02/10	13:30-16:30	County Hall (G9)

 

 

 

Working with Children of substance misusing parents- One-day course.

 

Learning outcomes - By the end of the course participants will:

• Be more aware of the impact that parental substance misuse can have on the various stages of the child’s life (including the unborn / new born baby);
• Have explored ways of talking to children about their parent’s or their own substance use;
• Looked at how to identify the needs of these children using the Common Assessment Framework;
• Have identified their role in supporting children of substance misusing parents in the context of their own professional role;
• Have a range of tools for working with this client group.

Dates	Times	Venues
25/03/10	09:30-16:30	Runnymede

 

 

 

 

 

 

These courses are free and available to all Connexions Personal Advisers but there are limited places available. Please book on by completing a SCC nomination form SCC training form.doc and send to corinne.ford@surreycc.gov.uk. Please ensure you copy in your line manager and if from VT helen.coomber@vtplc.com. SCC nomination forms should not be sent by post as this will delay booking and will be more difficult to process.

 

 

 

 

 

LSC and Connexions Personal Adviser Product Training Sessions 2010

 

The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) South East in partnership with Connexions has commissioned Theatre & Learning to deliver update sessions to Personal Advisers in your area.  The interactive drama based workshop will cover product updates for learning options and initiatives aimed at young people. 

 

Key learning outcomes will be a greater understanding of:

 

• Foundation Learning
• Raising the Participation Age
• Information about the new Diplomas
• Entry to Employment (E2E) programme – changes in 2010/11 with a focus on access to foundation learning and flexible delivery
• Eligibility and support available through Care to Learn
• How an Apprenticeship works (including frameworks) plus the Vacancy Matching Service
• Other vocational qualifications including Intro Diplomas, First Diplomas, National Diplomas, funding changes for BTECs and their position on NDQA, National Certificates and that NVQs are being revised
• Education Maintenance Allowance, key eligibility criteria and benefits
• Young People’s Guarantee and Jan/Sept Guarantee
• Information about WorldSkills 2011
• Ongoing changes at the LSC, the formation of the YPLA and Skills Funding Agency and what is being done in terms of ongoing marketing to generate new Apprenticeships

 

Places are limited and will be filled on a first come, first served basis.  Each workshop will last for 3 hours.  Morning sessions will start at 9.30am (9am for refreshments) and afternoon sessions will start from 1.30pm (refreshments at 1pm). Please complete and return the attached booking form to Theatre& Learning if you wish to attend.  Please also ensure that Corinne.ford@surreycc.gov.uk is made aware of the date you book onto.

 

 

 

 

Working together to meet local needs NEW DATE!

 

In January we had arranged an event to re-launch the CAF in Surrey and due to the unpredictable weather we had to postpone the event.

 

Event flyer

 

We would value your organisations involvement in this event and wondered if it would be possible to showcase your information in our mini marketplace. The stands do not need to be manned, and as previously stated we are happy to either collect information or have it dropped off the day before or morning of the event.

 

The CAF Team look forward to hearing from you and hope you will be able to be involved in this event.

 

 

Dates	Times	Venues
04/03/10	09:00-12:30	Leatherhead Leisure Centre

 

 

 

Accreditation Training Sessions

Accreditation of young people's informal learning is high on the Youth Service agenda, and is in its 2nd year of a rolling accreditation training programmes.

There are now planned specific Accreditation training sessions for each accreditation programme that PAs may wish to attend.

 

Guide for those working with Young People

Summary Table

 

Places are limited, so should be booked by sending a Connexions nomination form to Corinne.ford@surreycc.gov.uk The available Accreditation training dates are: -

 

Open College Network
3rd March 2010	11:00 - 16:00	Runnymede Centre
Duke Of Edinburgh's Award
4th March 2010	18:30 - 21:30	Runnymede Centre    (This is Module 1 only)
11th March 2010	09:30 - 16:30	Runnymede Centre    (Modules 1 & 2)
AQA Unit Award Scheme
5th March 2010	09:30 - 16:30	Runnymede Centre
ASDAN
9th March 2010	13:30 - 16:30	Runnymede Centre
Arts Award
17th March 2010	09:15 - 16:30	Quadrant Court
20th March 2010	09:15 - 16:30	Addlestone Youth Centre

 

 

 

 

Everybody’s Business - 2 Day Multi-agency Training Course

 

Basic child and adolescent mental health awareness for staff and volunteers who work directly with children and young people. Each training event will be supported by a CAMHS Primary Mental Health Worker or other CAMHS clinician. Delegates will be expected to attend both days to complete the course. Lunch will be provided

 

Aim:

• To increase mental health awareness for front-line staff and volunteers, thereby improving access to mental health advice and support for children and young people across Surrey.
• To promote inter-agency working and understanding within the 4 Surrey areas.

 

Key Learning Outcomes:

• To feel confident about identifying factors which contribute to good mental health in children and young people
• To be able to identify signs that a child or young person is struggling with their mental health
• To be able to ascertain whether you are able to manage these difficulties within your existing role
• To know how to access appropriate services to address the child or young person’s mental health difficulties and to have an understanding of what services such as CAMHS can offer.

 

New dates still TBC – but please email to Corinne.ford@surreycc.gov.uk so that you can be put on the waiting list.

 

 

 

 

 

The Surrey C- Card Condom Distribution Scheme for all young people under the age of 21

 

One day training to deliver the scheme.

 

Aim: For PAs; who promote safer sex practices and work within safeguarding principles and to become confident and effective condom distributors

 

Learning Objectives - By the end of the session, participants will be:

 

• Familiar with a range of condoms
• Able to demonstrate how to use a condom to young people;
• Confident in their ability to clearly explain, and facilitate condom use by young people
• Clear about their role and responsibilities in relation to the distribution of condoms to young people;
• Able to understand the principles of delay and be able to integrate it into their work with young people
• Familiar with the “Get it on” Surrey C- Card condom distribution operational policy and be confident about working to it;
• Aware of and have a basic understanding of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), contraception, including Emergency Hormonal Contraception (EHC)
• Able to signpost to local sexual health services
• Able to understand procedures with regard to condom distribution, safeguarding and the law.

 

 

Date	Times	Venue
12/03/10	09:15-16:30	Runnymede Centre

 

 

Lunch and refreshments will be included. Please book on by completing a SCC nomination form SCC training form.doc and send to corinne.ford@surreycc.gov.uk. Please ensure you copy in your line manager and if from VT helen.coomber@vtplc.com. SCC nomination forms should not be sent by post as this will delay booking and will be more difficult to process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. Surrey Job Centre Plus - Management Contacts

 

Please find below tables which provide up to date details of local JCP managers in order to support young people with employment opportunities.  These are good contacts to ensure those young people who are seeking employment support with benefits entitlement are directed to the right support agency. All PA's in centres  will need to complete a learning focused interview for young people referred to JCP

 

 

Managers (Customer Service Directorate)
NAME	ROLE & OFFICE	DEPUTY	EXTERNAL
Amanda Bown	ASM                                     Camberley JCP		01276 893969
Lesley Feilen	A/JCM                             Staines JCP	Liz Pretty                          7 8170 1610	01784 231611
Lorraine Hennessey	ASM                            Staines JCP	Geraldine Fry                    7 8170 1636	01784 231636
Mandy Hurst	ASM                                  Epsom JCP	Frances Wilson 755723314	01372 853303
Jill Neilson	Employer Engagement Manager - Surrey                        Guildford JCP	None	01483 442539
Sheila Brinkworth	ASM                                    Guildford JCP	Mark Jeffrey                                      7 8573 2487	01483 442492
Pauline Skilton	ASM                              Redhill JCP	Janice Horsell 757855885	01737 755848
Roz Roberts	JCM                                    Redhill JCP	TBA	01737 755848
Santi Sousa	ASM                                       Woking JCP	Lisa Knight 7 6975 2172	01483 702142
Beverley Williamson	ASM                       Weybridge JCP	Carol Elliott                  78734 8010	01932 748042
Tim Steeves	JCM Guildford JCP		01483 442409
Justine McManus	JCM                                 Camberley/Woking JCP	TBA	01483 442449
Carol Elliott                  78734 8010	Weybridge JCP	TBA	01932 748010

Surrey and Sussex District Management Contact Details
ROLE / NAME	OFFICE	AIDE	EXTERNAL
CSOM West Surrey                              Jon Lassiter	Guildford JCP	Reg Pritchard                                   01483 442448	01483 442524
CSOM Gatwick Diamond                  Mandy Clements	Epsom JCP	Caroline Nunns             01372 853349	01372 853349

We also wanted to make sure you are aware of who the Labour Market Recruitment Advisers are in JCP as they are responsible for work trails:

•          Katrina Linley Camberley

•          Sharnine Khan Weybridge

•          Shain Davis Staines

•          Sophie  Smith  Woking

•          Debbie Appleton Guildford

•          Cathy Holle Epsom and Redhill

 

 

 

 

5. Woking Dance Festival is seeking additional dancers aged 13 - 21 years

Woking Dance Festival is seeking additional dancers aged 13 - 21 years to take part in City Maquette, for more information contact helen@wokingdancefestival.co.uk

Woking Dance Festival 19 FEB - 6 MAR 2010 presents seasons of international dance, commissions new work through an associate artist scheme and engages local people directly in creating and performing dance. The festival is the largest dance festival in the South East of England (outside London). The festival is curated by the Artistic Director, Mary Brady. Selection of companies and artists is by invitation. We are a small organisation and as such cannot guarantee to respond to every request by artists and companies, although we do try. Woking Dance Festival receives funding from Arts Council England and Woking Borough Council. Website

 

 

 

 

 

6. Reigate Prince’s Trust Team starts on March 8^th.

 

We work for the YMCA who are delivering the programme and would like to tell you a little bit about it to see if you know of anyone who may benefit from this free development course for young people. The course is a full time course running Monday to Friday, 9.30 – 5.30 and we will be running it out of Reigate Baptist church, Sycamore Walk, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 7LR.

 

The Prince's Trust Team is a challenging 12-week programme that helps up to 15 young people, between the ages of 16 and 25, to develop the confidence, motivation and skills to turn untapped potential into success.

The aim of the Prince's Trust Team programme is "to enable teams of young people, from diverse backgrounds, to work in the community and give them the incentive to continue to make a contribution of lasting impact both on themselves and their communities."

The programme consists of a teambuilding residential, health and safety training, planning and target setting, preparation for a team project in the community (including fundraising), implementation of the community project, individual work experience placements, help with CVs and job hunting and a final team challenge.

The participants, over the period of 3 months, will have opportunities to improve many hard and soft skills desirable by employers and society in general. These include: team work, leadership, communication, caring for others, taking responsibility, tolerance and problem solving.

 

The course concludes with an awards ceremony with friends, family, the local press etc. The participants receive a City & Guilds Achievement qualification as well as Food Hygiene and First Aid qualifications.

 

Summary

 

Queries should be directed to:

Art Porter  - aporter@guildfordymca.org.uk   07505 646 547

Alex O’brien - aobrien@guildfordymca.org.uk   07717 533 066

 

 

 

 

 

7. Children, Schools and Families News Bulletin - January 2010 

 

 

8. National Connexions Network E-news: February 2010 

EHRC IAG Research Brief

Westminster Briefing Booking Form

React Bulletin

 

 

 

 

9. Children in out-of-work benefit households May 2008 - further clarification

Department for Work and Pensions have now published experimental statistics showing the number of children living in out-of-work benefit households at May 2008. The web-address is: http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/ben_hholds/child_ben_hholds.asp 

The coverage is GB.  The geographic breakdown is: Country, Government Office Region, Local Authority and Parliamentary Constituency.  Please could you send information requests to ADAM.S.PEARCE@DWP.GSI.GOV.UK 

 

 

 

10. Army Bursaries for Further Education: http://www.armyjobs.mod.uk/education/grants/Pages/FurtherEducationBursary.aspx

 

 

 

11. Steps Ahead Programme

 

This ongoing / year round E2E programme is run by Surrey Care Trust but hosted by Reigate and Redhill YMCA and held at Hillbrook House

Young people (16-18 years or 19 if birthday falls before 31^st August) can join at monthly entry points - the next being 1^st March then every 4weeks after that.

 

Course is held Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 10am - 4pm. Thursdays and Fridays are also used for additional One2One Support as required.

 

Personal development skills addressed:

•                    Confidence

•                    Team Work

•                    Motivation

 

It also provides an accredited Level 1 Open College Network Qualification via various modules such as H&S (Health and Safety).

Completion of each module results in the young person gaining a certificate and completion of all modules results in an Award for Progression.

 

This programme is open to EMA (Education Maintenance Allowance) because it supports young people along the way into Education, Employment and Training.

 

Enquiries/ Referrals to Leila Aumeer at Hillbrook 01737 773089

 

 

 

 

 

12. Changes to jobcentre telephony: Letter from JCP

13.Waverley Training Services This is a program for people aged between 16 and 18 years old that develops your skills and prepares you for employment.

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Flyer Reverse

14. LDD Adult and Community Learning for 16 to 25 years

These classes are for learners with specific needs or disabilities. This is an opportunity to try out some of our classes free of charge. Please bring own drinks and lunch if staying for the day. Please note that there is no facility to provide any personal care for attendees.

• 13 April 2010 10-3pm Molesey Taster Day contact Chrissie Walsh 01932 794506 to book a place
• 15 April 2010 10-3pm Woking Taster day contact Cathy Kirk on 01483 518529 to book a place.

Sessions will run from 10.30 - 12.00 and 13.00 - 14.30 tasters in cookery, art / craft and many more will be offered on the day.

15. How to contact Surrey Family Information Service:

 

 

Telephone  020 8541 8914 / 0300 200 1004 (Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm, 24 hour answerphone)

Email surrey.fis@surreycc.gov.uk

Complete a general enquiry online form

Face to face - find out where you can meet your local FIS Outreach Officer

Website www.surreycc.gov.uk/fis

http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/sccwebsite/sccwspages.nsf/LookupWebPagesByTITLE_RTF/Family+Information+Service?opendocument

16. Family Literacy, Language and/or Numeracy (FLLN)

FLLN aims to raise the standards of literacy, language and /or numeracy (LLN) for both adults and children and extend the ways that parents/carers can support their children’s literacy, language and or numeracy outside of school. Flyer

17. Catch22 Projects: Set4Success & Set4Life

There are still spaces on these programmes - so please promote to your young people.

Set4Success

Set4Life

 

 

 

 

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