Opportunity Areas Insight Guide Careers

The Department for Education has published its first Opportunity Area Insight Guide. The guide is focused on providing careers advice and support for young people and sharing what has worked in the Opportunity Areas so that other areas can benefit from this insight.

This guide, the first in a series, covers a selection of Opportunity Area place-based careers projects that have tackled complex and multi-faceted obstacles to social mobility and regional inequality. Some of the best examples of local solutions to local problems are listed here, covering a number of themes in careers education, from best practice sharing networks through to post-16 NEET (not in education, employment or training) reduction. Our aim is to cover tried and tested projects that vary in cost, showing where matchfunding has been secured

Since 2016, the 12 Opportunity Areas have been working with local people to improve school standards, attendance, teaching quality and recruitment, careers training and advice, and literacy and maths skills in some of the most disadvantaged regions in the country, alongside tackling barriers to learning that exist beyond the school gates.

Accompanying this publication is a webinar hosted on Thursday 17 June between 15:30 – 17:00 where you can learn more about these projects and speak to the people involved.  Further information and registration for the webinar can be found here.

 

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