Services for Schools and Colleges
Local council Connexions services offer impartial information, advice and guidance to students to ensure that they are aware of all opportunities and to empower them to make choices that enable them to reach their full potential.
The Connexions offer to schools and colleges includes:
- Qualified, competent and impartial Personal Advisers (PAs) who are trained in guidance work. All PAs working in schools hold, or are working towards, a Level 4 qualification in Guidance. PAs receive continuous professional updating and are regularly assessed on their practice
- PAs with detailed knowledge of Labour Market Information and progression routes into continuing education, Apprenticeships and work-based learning, employment and higher education
- Accessible services to all young people aged 13-19 (up to 25 for those with Special Needs). Targeted support is offered based on level of need
- Investment in library and curriculum resources to enhance guidance in schools, with support from an Information and Advice Assistant to audit and update Connexions resource centres
- All PAs are in possession of an enhanced CRB check, updated every three years.
Activities we are able to offer include the following:
- Customised group work sessions on a number of topics appropriate to different year groups
- Working with individual students, offering one-to-one guidance interviews, action planning, up-to-date information on job, training and Apprenticeship applications
- Personal Advisers attend Parents’ Evenings and parent consultation events
Students with additional and special needs
- Personal Advisers attend Transitional and Annual Reviews
- Specialised group work activities and additional interviews
- Liaison with and referrals to appropriate agencies
- Support for parents and carers and co-ordinating work with other agencies during transition
Services for schools and colleges are agreed annually with their local council Connexions service.