PA Bulletin 29 April 2008

Connexions Surrey PA Bulletin

29 April 2008

 

The 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: Mark Your Diaries for the PA Conference!
2.  Connexions PA Product Training
3.  Free DCSF Conference
4.  In-Volve SYPS Drugs Awareness Training
5.  ICE Workshops and Construction Bus - 6th May!
6.  NEET Update, inc NEET Activities Flyer April-June 08

Connexions Training Programme
External Training Programme 

1:  Mark Your Diaries for the PA Conference!
The 2008 PA Conference will be held on Wednesday 16th July at the Manor House Hotel, Newlands Corner, Guildford.  We look forward to seeing you there for an opportunity to share, celebrate, network, learn and relax.  Please find the invitation letter attached  - please complete and return to kirsty.baker@surreycc.gov.uk by the 9th May if you have not already booked your place.

2:  Connexions Personal Advisor Product Training
This training is an excellent opportunity to update your knowledge of these areas and comes highly recommended by previous attendees.

The Learning and Skills Council (South East Region) have commissioned award winning ImpAct Universal to deliver a series of half-day product training sessions designed specifically for Connexions Personal Advisors.
The workshop will impart information on the following areas: -

•        E2E including the new E2E strands

•        The latest EMA guidelines

•        Apprenticeships

•        14 – 19 Diplomas

•        Care to Learn

•        World Skills 2011

ImpAct Universal has designed a session which promises to be informative and different!  ImpAct use professional actors to ensure that the learning will be experiential and very enjoyable.  Pieces of drama will be enacted to explore certain scenarios and the relevant product areas.  Delegates will not be asked to act or take part in role-play!  Each session will last 3 hours with a maximum of 30 delegates per session.

 

Workshops are taking place during May.  A booking form with a full menu of dates and locations is attached.  Please request your place / reservation by e-mailing a first and second choice option to sarah.lickess@impactuniversal.com or by faxing back the completed booking form to 01484 660088 by  TUESDAY 6TH MAY at the latest. 

 

Places will be reserved on a first come first served basis.

Many thanks

Mandip

Miss Mandip Bilkhu
Marketing Advisor for South East Region
Learning and Skills Council
Marketing and Communications
Pacific House
Imperial Way
Reading
Berks
RG2 0TF

3:  Free DCSF Conference!
Schools, Colleges, Children's Services and partners: Delivering for at risk and challenging young people
Tuesday 20th May 2008
Congress Centre
London

Want to know how your school can join up with other services to help your most vulnerable young people? Is your local authority developing closer partnerships with schools through implementation of the targeted youth support reforms? Do you have an interest in improving the lives of the most challenging young people in society?
Register for the free national conference.  Click here for full details and how to register.  Registration by Tuesday 6th May

4:  In-Volve SYPS Drugs Awareness Training

In-volve SYPS is offering some free TIER 1 Drugs Awareness training for PAs on Monday 19th May, Monday 9th June and Monday 21st July 2008 from 10.30am – 4.30pm.  Please see attached booking form for more details.

Also see the External Training section at the end of the Bulletin for details of the full 2008/2009 training programme.


5:  ICE Workshops and the Construction Bus

Date for your Diary - Tuesday 6th May!  Please find attached two flyers advertising ICE Workshops and the Construction Bus - both are aimed at 16-19 yr olds who are not in education or work. Please contact the Redhill Connexions Centre should you have any young people who are interested.  There are currently 10 places still available


Many Thanks

Jo Cook
Personal Adviser
Phone: 01737 773801
Email:  jo.cook@vtplc.com

 

6: NEET UPDATE– How well are we doing?
Click here for the March graphs on NEET, Unknowns and Comparison against previous years.

Job Vacancies for Young People

Did you know that there are a wide range of job vacancies, vacant college places and training courses all over the county waiting to be filled? As the majority don’t have particularly demanding entry requirements, they are an ideal choice for many NEET youngsters.

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.

 

NEET Activities Flyer  - April-June 2008   

Please find attached a document highlighting a range of NEET activities taking place for young people around the County from April until the end of June 2008.  The aim of the document is to give you an indication of the types of activities/programmes that are available or are currently being undertaken.

 

The next edition of the flyer will cover the period July - September 2008 and ideally I would like to distribute it to you all week commencing 16th June which would allow you some time to speak with your NEET young people and potentially get them signed up onto a course/programme that may be starting within this period.

 

If you are involved in any NEET (16-18 year old) activities or know of any activities for NEET young people that are taking place between July and the end of September 2008 then please let me have the following details by 13th June and I will include the programme in the next flyer:

 

  1. Course title
  2. Brief description, to include, number of weeks, core content, referral process etc
  3. Agency/provider
  4. Dates
  5. Time
  6. Costs if any incurred by young person
  7. Contact name
  8. Contact details i.e. telephone number and email address

Justine Khan

Commissioning Executive

Connexions Surrey 

Tel: 01483 519339

 

 

 

 

 

 

Connexions Training Programme
 

  • The following training is provided through the Connexions free training programme and should be applied for using the Nomination Form, an updated version of which can be found on the Extranet.
  • Return to Bernadette Slack, VT Careers Management – Surrey HQ, Ground Floor, Sutton House, Weyside Park, Catteshall Lane, Godalming, Surrey, GU7 1XJ or Tel: 01483 528852 for further enquiries.

    Please note there is no guarantee of a place if nominations are received later than 2 weeks before the start of a course.

 

 

Connexions Training Update

 

 A full training programme and details can be found on the PA resources page 

Please send completed nomination forms to VT Careers Management Surrey, Sutton House, Weyside Park, Catteshall Lane, Godalming GU7 1XJ and mark them for the attention of Bernadette Slack.  Thank you.

Introduction to Adapt

•          21st May

•          19th June

•          6th August

•          18th Sept

          

Adapt Workshop

•          23rd April

•          15th May

•          24th July

•         10th Sept

We are currently awaiting a full training programme for 2008

Please click here for full details of courses and for courses running until June 08

 

Nominations for all courses need to be sent to Bernadette Slack at VT Careers Management, Surrey, Sutton House, Weyside Park, Catteshall Lane, Godalming, Surrey GU7 1XJ

 

 

 

External Training Courses

The following training courses are outside the Connexions training programme and therefore any costs will need to be met by your own organisation and not through the centrally funded Connexions programme.

 

In-volve offer a wide range of training opportunities that may be useful for PA’s  - please find the training programme attached

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 
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