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Their future in our hands – Navigating school to career transitions: A webinar for Primary, Secondary and College Educators Part 2
- Online
- 21 Mar 2024 (15:45 - 17:00)
This webinar will follow on from webinar one and will offer solutions and share good practice to staff on how they overcome the difficulties they have when supporting young people in their employment journey.
Objectives:
- An overview of the employment pathways available
- What is the Internships Work Programme
- How to bring this alive in the primary classroom / setting
- How to bring this alive in the secondary school / setting
- How to bring this alive at post 16
- Overcoming the barriers and difficulties faced by staff in supporting their young people in their employment pathways
Desired outcomes:
- How to overcome difficulties when supporting young people
- A clearer understanding of the employment pathways available to young people.
- A clearer understanding of how to embed this into teaching from the youngest of ages.
- Networks and resources available that staff can link into to ensure employment is for everyone.
Online
Suitable for: Inclusion Manager/Leader, SENCO, Newly Qualified Teacher, Support staff, Teacher, Teaching Assistant, A parent/carer, Administration Staff, Assistant Head Teacher, Consultant, Deputy Head Teacher, Early Years Practitioner, Education psychologist, Head Teacher, Senior Leader
Meet your trainer
Claire Cookson
Chief Executive Officer of Pathways Education Ltd, Claire leads a fast-growing organisation that serves children and young adults not in formal schooling, to help them re-engage with learning, life and beyond. Underpinned by the values of Wellbeing, Connection and Empowerment, Claire’s work relentlessly focuses on re-imagining education to ensure all young adults have the opportunity, skills, and support to transition into high aiming paid employment in their adult lives.
Formally the CEO of DFN Project SEARCH and DFN Foundation, Claire is an experienced senior leader and public speaker with an extensive background in education, innovative curriculum design and best practice supported employment. Experienced chair and board member, Claire currently holds a number of non-exec trustee roles, one with a specialist school with the primary responsibility for safeguarding, and one with DFN Project SEARCH.
Claire supports many national workstreams around evidence-based transition to employment provision and is currently an external advisor to a large-scale national charity as well as sitting on a number of APPG groups around assistive technology and supported internships.
Meet your trainer
Nerise Oldfield-Thompson
Operations Manager for British Association for Supported Employment (BASE) and Inclusive Trading CIC.
Nerise has worked in supported employment for over 25 years, across a wide range of services. Nerise is committed to ensuring people with disabilities have the opportunity of employment and developing their careers. Prior to this role, Nerise has been an Associate of BASE providing all quality assurance and was pivotal to the development of the Supported Employment Quality Framework. Nerise is strongly passionate about quality assurance and leads the work across BASE and Inclusive Trading to drive quality across employment pathways and workforce development.
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