Paul Hannant Project Co-ordinator Lancashire Apprenticeship Service
GET MORE YOUNG PEOPLE APPLYING
Chris Speakman Linzi Monks
FOR YOUR JOBS There are more than 13,000 year 13 leavers in Lancashire who are looking today for their next step this summer - could one of these bright young people be your next star?
Working in partnership with The Department for Education and UCAS the Lancashire Skills and Employment Hub and partners are supporting the Early Connect pilot. The pilot aims to support more young people onto apprenticeships, and to make it easier for employers to find apprentices.
Sara Gaskell
but we’re not seeing enough jobs and we have to sort that out.
The message to employers, parents and students is that there is a route that can take people all the way and that is going to inspire the next generation of talent.
Chris Speakman, joint managing director Speakman Contractors
As an employer we have not been aware that there are people waiting for vacancies until today. Martin has spoken about 1,000 people sat there waiting for opportunities and this is the first time I’ve heard about this.
Skills aren’t just associated with apprentices. We educate our senior staff and continue to train them as well, it’s not just the apprentices that we’re looking at.
Our business has pulled away from bringing in school leavers because we just feel they aren’t ready for employment.
We need to influence people at a younger age, whether it’s at the age of 13, 14 or 15, even if it’s through video or tutorials, to show what jobs are like. If you’re doing this kind of job, this is what the landscape looks like.
Linzi Monks, head of apprenticeships and employer engagement, Preston College
The Early Connect pilot isn’t going to be an instant fix. Those of us that have worked in apprenticeships for 20 or so years have always known we’ve been second class citizens in terms of information, advice and guidance and ‘getting it out there’.
No matter what we’ve thrown at it in the past, it’s still not come up to the levels of A Levels and BTECs and going to college full time.
Claire Shore
So although this is good and really welcomed, parents and everybody have to get on board with it. We’ve still got that job of work to do behind the scenes.
The mindset of parents when it comes to the university route as the only route is still there. We need to educate parents, young people and even the teachers, so they understand how apprenticeships have parity with every other kind of qualification out there.
Sara Gaskell, strategic partnerships manager, Lancashire Skills Hub
We are combatting years of disparity between apprenticeships and higher education. So, it’s really good that apprenticeships are now seen as a technical routeway.
We are giving our young people the opportunity to get really good technical education, from T Levels through to apprenticeships, while supporting businesses with recruiting the next generation of stars.
The number of 18-year-olds leaving school in Lancashire this year is over 18,000. If we can get the vacancies, we have a large pool of people that could be the next generation of Lancashire business superstars.
We’ve been trying to educate people that apprentices are not just for young people and that they are available in a huge range of subjects, so they are for everybody.
We always say in skills that collaboration is our superpower, we don’t deliver anything ourselves but we try and bring everybody together to do so.
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Using the UCAS system students can view and apply for apprenticeships at the same time as submitting applications to universities and colleges for higher education provision.
This provides an opportunity for Lancashire businesses to get early access to talent in Year 13 (those leaving school or college this spring or summer.
Vacancies at all levels can be added to ‘Recruit an Apprentice’ and will automatically be advertised on the UCAS website.
By advertising your vacancy through the pilot businesses will gain:
• A pipeline of talent to meet business needs
• Impartial advice though the pilot to find suitable candidates
• Early access to talent • Find out about funding support • Enhanced recruitment services
If you sign up to the Lancashire Skills Pledge you will get support to attract young people into your workplace through the Early Connect pilot.
The Skills Pledge is a free impartial service providing Lancashire businesses with one door to find out more about the funded skills and training initiatives including apprenticeship information advice and guidance.
Sign up here:
www.lancashireskillshub.
co.uk/lancashire-skills-pledge Or email:
lancsskillshub@lancashirelep.co.uk
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