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Welcome to the Young WorkPath summer special newsletter, which provides local schools, colleges and other partners with:
- a round-up of the latest news relating to young people's future career choices
- a selection of local opportunities for young people (apprenticeships, jobs, courses and personal development activities)
- updates on what we're doing to support you and the young people you work with.
We would love to hear from you. If you have any feedback or suggestions of what we should cover, simply email us.
Do also forward this newsletter to colleagues and encourage them to subscribe.
What is Young WorkPath?
Young WorkPath is an innovative, coordinated approach that brings together the expertise of Tower Hamlets Careers Service with that of the WorkPath employment brokerage team.
We work with local young people aged between 13 and 19, or up to age 25 for those who have a special educational need or disability (SEND). We provide information, advice and guidance about education and career pathways. We support young people who are NEET (not in employment, education or training) into positive outcomes.
We are based at the Young WorkPath centre in Watney Market. Our careers advisers also work in local secondary schools, New City College and other community organisations in the borough. To find out more, check out our webpage.
Coronavirus update
The Young WorkPath office remains closed to the public until further notice.
Despite school and college closures, our team is continuing to provide careers interviews over the phone.
Careers Advisers are working closely with Careers Coordinators and SENCO’s to identify pupils who are risk of becoming NEET (not in education, employment or training) to ensure they know their options after year 11/12/13 and to support them with their next steps.
For young people, parents or carers wishing to book a telephone appointment, please contact us at youngworkpath@towerhamlets.gov.uk or on 0800 3581 2410 (free phone) or 0207 364 1401.
Local advice
The council is supporting the nation's efforts to tackle coronavirus, while running our most critical services and supporting our residents, including those that are vulnerable.
We are regularly publishing advice for residents, local businesses, community groups and more at www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/coronavirus
We are also sharing updates with our subscribers in regular emails, and publishing stories on social media using #TowerHamletsTogether.
Sign up to our 'health and wellbeing - coronavirus' newsletter to get regular updates delivered to your inbox.
We continue to provide careers guidance and employability support to young people in schools, colleges and those who are currently NEET. Our advisers are working hard to ensure young people are applying for appropriate courses, apprenticeships, jobs and training.
A great example is the following recent quote from a young person regarding the support he received from one of our Apprenticeship and Employment Advisers:
“The support I have received from my adviser when applying to apprenticeships was the best support I have ever had. My adviser has really managed to simplify the best structure to use when applying to apprenticeships. To sum up the experience I had, I would describe it as if I was piloting an aeroplane and my adviser was the co-pilot ensuring that I didn’t crash. She has helped me to think of the different ways I have developed skills over the years and put them into perspective, this then allowed me to fill in apprenticeship application confidently and only after a few weeks my application has been accepted, and I now have been given an interview.”
GCSEs and A-levels results days
We will still be available at youngworkpath@towerhamlets.gov.uk or on 0800 3581 2410 (free phone) or 0207 364 1401 on both results days: 13 August for A-levels and 20 August for GCSEs. We expect to be very busy, so please do be patient if contacting us. We will also be sending leaflets to schools beforehand for you to distribute to your students.
We wish all students the best with their results!
Schools' statutory responsibility for providing IAG to pupils
Every school must ensure that pupils are provided with independent careers guidance from year 8 - year 13. To support schools with this additional services can be purchased from Young WorkPath. You can discuss your needs with your link Careers Adviser or contact Martha Barden, Team Manager on 0207 364 6133 or at martha.barden@towerhamlets.gov.uk.
Please let us know if you wish to buy any services by the end of July.
September Guarantee
Every year, we undertake the huge task of finding out offers of an appropriate place in education or training made to year 11 and 12 pupils in the borough for September coming. This is something the Department for Education (DfE) requires us to do. Thank you to schools who have provided us with the data, for schools still working on their data we would be grateful if you could get this to us by 22 July 2020. Please send data to Cheryl Toms, Team Leader at cheryl.toms@towerhamlets.gov.uk.
Follow us on social media
With the increasing use of technology at this time, we are also providing information and signposting opportunities through our @LBTHCareers Twitter page.
T Levels webinars
Planned delivery of T levels are still due to go ahead and a recent webinar by Deputy Director, Stella Pearson provided more information about them. Read the recording or have a look at the slides. There will also be three ‘Deep Dive’ webinars into the first three T Level subjects that will be available from September 2020. Please note these webinars are free of charge.
For more information on T-levels, including a full list of subject areas, see the DfE's T-level guidance.
Chancellor's Plan for Jobs to help the UK's recovery
The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak has announced that a total of £1.6 billion will be invested in scaling up employment support schemes, training and apprenticeships to help people looking for a job. Jobs are to be created for more than 300,000 young people up to 24 years old. This is part of a new £2 billion 'Kickstart Scheme', which will be launched to create hundreds of thousands of new, fully subsidised jobs for young people across the country. Read more online.
Exam resits for autumn and 2021
The government and Ofqual have released information about resits this autumn and are beginning to look into exams for 2021. You can read further guidance about this on the Ofqual website.
Post-16 providers
There are still places available at various colleges, sixth forms and other providers, with online and postal applications being accepted and alternative methods of interviews taking place, including telephone. There are also virtual events, such as open days and tours online. For details, check the website or social media accounts of the relevant provider and you can find a list on our webpage.
Some enrollment information is now available and applications for 2021 start have now begun to open.
Post-18 UCAS university clearing is now open
If you don’t have a place or have not applied to university to start in 2020, you will need to apply through Clearing, which is open until 20 October. For those living in England there are over 20,000 courses from over 300 providers. You can search on the UCAS website.
Summer activities
Young people can also continue to engage in a range of FREE online careers related activities during the summer, including:
See more Tower Hamlets summer activities online.
Apprenticeships
There are still lots of great apprenticeship vacancies around at the moment. We've listed some of our top picks:
You can find more vacancies by searching on the Find An Apprenticeship site. Also remember that NEET young people can get help with applications and interview preparation from our team.
We hope you've enjoyed reading our Young WorkPath bulletin, please find further information on our webpage. Tower Hamlets Council offers a range of e-newsletters to keep you up to date on a variety of topics.
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