PA Bulletin 20th July 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
2. Children and Young People Now Magazine
4. IMPORTANT - End of NAS Hard Copy Marketing Materials
6. Surrey Student Travel Guide.
7. Update On EMA, Care To Learn And Free Childcare For Training And Learning For Work
8. Glenthorne Music Production Programme
9. The Co-operative Apprenticeship Academy
10. Surrey 14-19 News Issue 10 - Summer 2010
11. Fading memories affect everyone – Start talking about your mental health.
12. What are the key issues for Surrey's young people?
13. Vinvolved Surrey Newletter
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 a database of jobs relevant and available to them.
Apprenticeships: Please go to our Apprenticeships page to make sure you are aware of the most recent opportunities in Surrey. Ensure you promote these to your clients (particularly vacancies that are in red as they have received no applications). Below are some guidance links for Apprenticeship vacancies online.
- Candidates guide: http://www.apprenticeships.org.uk/avtm/Candidate.aspx
- Support Service Partner’s guide: http://www.apprenticeships.org.uk/avtm/Support-Service-Partner.aspx
- The Apprenticeship Resource Pack for teachers, careers and IAG providers:http://www.apprenticeships.org.uk/Partners/Marketing/ResourcePack.aspx
- E-learning guides on how to use the Apprenticeship vacancies site Apprenticeships vacancies - online support guides
- Unsuccessful Candidates Letter
New ESF grant available for employers
There is a new grant available to encourage employers to take on unemployed 16 – 24 year olds as apprentices. This funding is from the European Social Fund and will provide up to 1,025 Apprenticeship grants to employers in the South East with a grant of £1,500. The grant will be available from April 2010 until October 2010. It is recognised that young people in the current economic climate face particular issues and this grant is a way of supporting them and ensuring that we are training a new generation for economic recovery. There are criteria around which employers can benefit from this grant and further information is available in the attached flyer if you are interested. 16-24 Grant flyer.doc
When these vacancies are advertised on the Apprenticeship vacancies online system, they will be marked on the vacancy lists with ESF Funded Opportunity in the vacancy title column – for e.g. ESF Funded Opportunity - Trainee Chef.
NEET Activities CALENDAR: There are several events relevant to your clients on this calendar now, please utilise this facility and promote. To publicise an event please contact: Jemma Campbell-Scott at Connexions Surrey jemma.campbellscott@surreycc.gov.uk - Tel: 01483 519350
2. Children and Young People Now Magazine
Please feel free to access this website for all the latest information, news and articles about working with young people – please use the log in information which was sent out to you with the bulletin email from Jem – if you don’t have it please give me a call 01483 519350.
Please note that the PA training course pages are updated as and when new courses become available and that this section has its own dedicated page on our site:
http://www.connexionssurrey.co.uk/continuousprofessionaldevelopment.html
Full details of courses available to all PAs are available on the Connexions and Multi-agency training sections and details of dates, how to apply and who to send application forms to, are outlined in detail for your convenience.
4. IMPORTANT - End of NAS Hard Copy Marketing Materials
Orders for hard copies for any of our marketing materials (including learner brochures, postcards and leaflets about the Apprenticeship vacancies system) need to be placed before 26 July. After this date hard copy materials will no longer be available and you will only be able to download electronic versions. As usual all our marketing material will continue to be available to download from our website at www.apprenticeships.org.uk/Partners/Marketing.aspx.
If stocks in your centres are running low or you have no extras to take out to schools etc, please order them now before they are gone. Up until 26 July you can find order details on our website at the link above.
NAS Connexions Campaign Letter.doc
Sarah Sawyer - National Apprenticeship Service
Phone: 01273 783601 sarah.sawyer@apprenticeships.gov.uk
We have created a new set of pages located on our website (http://www.connexionssurrey.co.uk/opportunitiesforyoungpeople.html) which are designed to pull all of the different opportunities for young people together in one place. We need your help to populate the borough pages, so please get in touch with full details of any initiatives relevant to the following areas:
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6. Surrey Student Travel Guide.
This site provides students with advice on transport assistance and support and up to date travel information for all public transport providers servicing schools and colleges in Surrey.
7. Update On EMA, Care To Learn And Free Childcare For Training And Learning For Work
8. Glenthorne Music Production Programme
16 to 19 year olds. Free training by industry professionals in MUSIC PRODUCTION and more. A level Qualifications!
Would you have stayed on at school if they taught what you needed to learn? Are you a talented up and coming Producer/ Songwriter or Performer, who doesn’t know where to go next? Our new creative arts program was designed for you.
It is a full time and comprises ...
- Training by industry professionals
- Your own music industry mentor
- Instruction in professional technologies such as Logic, Cubase, Dreamweaver and Flash
- Study of music and media industry work practices
- An individual web site project
- A Level Music Technology academic qualification
- Successful applicants will also be able to gain supplementary A Levels in two more subjects of their own choice – from a list including Film, Drama, Photography and Dance…
Though the entry requirements for A Level Music Technology are a B grade in GCSE Music you can also apply if you can demonstrate experience in Music technology such as your own recorded tracks.
For more details and how to apply, please go to our website
9. The Co-operative Apprenticeship Academy
A new £9 million scheme, that is set to benefit 2,000 young people. Our apprenticeships will enable young people to gain experience of at least two of our diverse range of businesses, work towards a recognised national qualification and have the opportunity to progress into our management training scheme. In time, we plan to roll the Apprenticeship Academy out across our workforce, offering young employees the opportunity to gain a range of transferable skills, competences and qualifications. For more details and how to apply, please go to our website
10. Surrey 14-19 News Issue 10 - Summer 2010
11. Fading memories affect everyone – Start talking about your mental health.
NHS Surrey and Surrey County Council are pleased to announce the launch of the consultation on our joint draft commissioning strategy for dementia and mental health services for older people in Surrey This has been produced by the Dementia and Older People’s Mental Health Strategy Group, led jointly by NHS Surrey and Surrey County Council. Membership includes representation from Surrey and Borders Partnership Foundation Trust, Surrey Community Health, district and borough councils and voluntary organisations.
With over half the population of Surrey aged 50 or above and people living longer this is a hugely important issue for all of us. The need to produce this strategy has arisen from talking and consulting with a range of people who have informed us that although there is evidence of lots of good services in Surrey, there is room for improvement and modernisation. For the details of our consultation and how you can get involved please visit our web site http://www.fadingmemories.surreyhealth.nhs.uk/
The purpose of this consultation is to check that these priorities and their related actions have wider support. Feedback on the strategy is by 1 October 2010. If you would like additional copies of either the flyer or the booklet please leave us a message on 0800 6525 297 or e-mail us at communications@surreypct.nhs.uk
We would be very grateful if you could help us make this widely available by passing on this e-mail and drawing it to the attention of your teams.
If you would like us to provide copies of our A5 publication for you to display or circulate, or to come and discuss the contents please leave us a message on 0800 6525 297 or e-mail communications@surreypct.nhs.uk and we will contact you to make the arrangements.
Thank you for your support in raising awareness of this hugely important issue and we look forward to hearing your views.
12. What are the key issues for Surrey's young people?
During May and June, we conducted stage 1 of our consultation. We asked you to select what in your opinion were the key issues for Surrey Young People, from a long list of 23 issues identified from ‘One in Ten, a needs assessment of young people aged thirteen to nineteen in Surrey’.
Stage 2 of the consultation now begins. Please ensure that every staff member you manage has the opportunity to participate in this consultation by either completing this online survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8D5ZQH6 or by filling out the attached form and returning it to the address printed on the form. We need to have all responses returned to us by July 23rd.
It’s important that we get as many people’s opinions as possible as this will shape the future of Services for Young People.
There are 3 different ways to participate
Everybody – click on the link and you will be taken to an online version of the questionnaire (this should only take around 5 minutes to complete. Link > http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8D5ZQH6
Staff & Adults – Attached is a questionnaire entitled outcomes consultation 2. Please complete this and return it to us.
Young People – Attached is a young people’s version of the questionnaire called outcomes YP 2. Please distribute this to as many young people as you can. This should include youth groups and any young people we work with.
RETURN FORMS TO: Transformation Team, Quadrant Court, 35 Guildford Road, Woking, Surrey GU22 7QQ
13. Vinvolved Surrey Newletter
Welcome to the Surrey vinvolved eNewsletter for Organisations, Community Partners, Charities, Volunteer Centres, Public Sector, Surrey County Council & Local Businesses.
Thank you to all those Personal Advisers who attended the PA conference on July the 7th at the HG Wells Centre at Woking.
We hope you found the event informative and enjoyable and we especially thank those of you who gave valuable feedback about the quality of the information you received and the subsequent training you feel you require. All training needs will be assessed and in the meantime please continue to look at the Connexions Surrey Website http://www.connexionssurrey.co.uk/index.html for all training updates.
Also at the PA Conference, we spent some time looking at issues around referrals and although there is no 'quick fix' to some of these, one thing we can do to make the process easier is to build a library of agencies/referral processes/forms for all PAs to use. The intention is to build a new page on the website where information on all relevant agencies can be held in one place, to save you some time in locating them.
In order to start our research, please can you drop me a line with a list of agencies you have referred clients to in the past, or that you would like to have access to in the future. We can then work on finding the most up to date contacts and processes for each and compile them into a single resource for all PA colleagues.
Many thanks
chris.bussicott@surreycc.gov.uk
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