Career Development for Young people with SEND #sameanddifferent

Jenny Connick Founder Talentino

Why Talentino?• Work with Special Schools across the country

• Build capacity and capability in Special Schools of all kinds

• Provide a free annual CPD certified conference with national speakers

• Strategic Partner for SEND for the Careers and Enterprise Company

• Challenge for change e.g. Barclays LifeSkills

• Bring lots of SEND relationships with us

What we doCareers at EVERY Level - Personal, Social and Career Development

programme for young people with learning difficulties

• Three goals

– Improve the possibility and probability of paid work

– Improve work related skills for independent living

– Enrich life experience

‘Careers at Every Level’• Finds ways of using work related experiences to facilitate personal, career and social development• Careers, Enterprise and Personal Development Programme for young people with learning difficulties• Delivers the Gatsby Benchmarks3 Goals

– MLD Students – Improving the possibility and probability of paid work– SLD Students – Raise the level of work related skills to improve independent living for students and

their families/carers– PMLD Students – Enrich Life experience

5 Elements:– Introduction to working - Classroom based career coaching curriculum– Rehearsing for working – ‘When I am at Work’, ‘Before I go to Work’ – Exploring Career Options – ‘Jobs I could do’, Campaign 2 and career outcomes– Building Employability Skills – ‘Work related skills for independent living’, student career

development portfolio– Employer Experience – Building an Employers’ Network, Employer Encounters, Work Experience, – Enterprise Skills – Bambino STEM Employability Skills and PMLD Enterprise Curriculum

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• National Careers Strategy

• Statutory Guidance

• Gatsby Benchmarks

• Careers Hubs

• Careers Leaders

• Enterprise Advisers

• Compass

• Tracker

• Careers Advisers

• Employer Encounters

• Work Experience

Which applies to young people with

SEND?

National Careers Context

• National Careers Strategy

• Statutory Guidance

• Gatsby Benchmarks

• Careers Hubs

• Careers Leaders

• Enterprise Advisers

• Compass

• Tracker

• Careers Advisers

• Employer Encounters

• Work Experience

Everything !

National Careers Context

Key Points

• Consider the widest range of options

• Raise aspirations

• Help parents/families engage more

• Increase authentic employer encounters

• Differentiate as appropriate

• Improve career development for most vulnerable

• Use 16-19 bursaries ( or 19+ EHCP)

• Staff work from the presumption of paid work

• Career decisions to be based on young person’s aspirations, abilities and needs

• Careers guidance differentiated

• Careers Advisers skills to be developed ( e.g. CDI course)

• Named Careers Advisers encouraged to build longer term relationships with students and use EHC Plans as a lever nb most young people with SEND do not have an EHC plan

Young People with SEND

The fundamental question to ask when working with Young People with SEND is:

Who are we talking about?

Who are we talking about?1.2 million young people with SEND / 250k have an EHC Plan / further 1 million plus have SEND support

Young people with SEND often described as one generic group but VERY different from each other (Rubik's Cube analogy)

Career Development process will be very different and needs personalising relative to the career outcome

Type of Career Outcomes may be different

SEND Code of Practice

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SEND Code of Practice

• "A child or young person has SEN[D] if they have a learning difficulty or disability which calls for special educational provision to be made for him or her. A child of compulsory school age or a young person has a learning difficulty or disability if he or she:

• has a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of others of the same age; or

• has a disability which prevents or hinders him or her from making use of facilities of a kind generally provided for others of the same age in mainstream schools or mainstream post-16 institutions".

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SEND Groups

Very common for a young person with SEND ( Special Educational Needs / Disabilities) to have multiple barriers from more than one grouping

• Complex picture for individual and their families/carers

• However broad SEND groupings can be defined as:

• Communication and interaction - Speech, language and communication needs, Autistic Spectrum Disorder

• Cognition and learning - Specific learning difficulty, moderate or severe learning difficulty or profound and multiple learning difficulty

• Social, emotional, and mental health difficulties (SEMH) /behaviour sensory

• Physical needs, including visual impairment, hearing impairment, multi-sensory impairment, physical disability

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Vulnerable Young PeopleThere are many young people who are vulnerable and need additional careers support too:

• As many as 800,000 Young Carers – age 5-17• 1.1 million children eligible for Free School Meals (FSM), 1.9 million in food poverty• 50,700 16/17-year olds are NEET (Not in Education, employment or training) • 23,500 Gypsy Roma Traveller children and young people• 833 Young people in custody• 10,000 + Refugees / Asylum seekers / UAAS• 167,00 pupils who have been excluded at least once • 36,752 pupils in PRUs or Alternative Provision• Young girls and women in some societies e.g. at risk of forced marriages• 500,000 children who live in homes where there are dependency issues• Over 1.5 million Children who have been identified as suffering sexual abuse

/exploitation or parental neglect or physical neglect or emotional abuse from parents

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Where are young people with SEND educated?

• Students with communication/interaction or cognition and learning difficulties may be in mainstream schools or attend different types of Special schools / FE Colleges

• Students with Social, emotional, and mental health difficulties (SEMH) /behaviour sensory or physical disabilities may attend mainstream schools or could attend specialist Special schools such as SEMH, PRUs, Virtual schools for Looked after Children, Young Offenders Institutes, Hospital settings or be home educated.

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Two groupsThinking about the early career development needs of young people with SEND and splitting them into 2 groups:

Students with social, emotional, and mental health difficulties (SEMH) /behaviour sensory and/or physical disabilities can access mainstream careers and employer engagement activities but will need:

– more time to build trust– more support and encouragement– more time– more preparation including employers– aspiration raising– environmental adaptations potentially– support for families/carersStudents with cognitive and learning difficulties or communication/interaction challenges will have Career development needs that are the:

– Same– Same and different– Different

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Young People with SENDWhat do positive career outcomes

look like for young people with SEND?

What careers support do they need?

Positive career outcomes for young people with SEND?

Students with communication/interaction or cognition and learning difficulties who are less likely to be taking exams that employers recognise like GCSEs should expect to achieve positive career outcomes like:

• supported Internships, supported / inclusive Apprenticeships, supported employment, extended work place interviews, supported Enterprise, supported volunteering

but there are much smaller number of opportunities locally so most go to College

Students with Social, emotional, and mental health difficulties (SEMH) /Behaviour Sensory and/or Physical needs can enjoy the same opportunities as their peers but face significant barriers and they can go on to very positive career outcomes including:

– Apprenticeships, Further Education and Higher Education including University and Employment, Enterprise.

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Careers support for young people with SEND includes:Students with Social, emotional, and mental health difficulties (SEMH) /Behaviour Sensory and/or Physical needs can access mainstream careers and employer engagement activities but will need:– more time– more preparation including employers– aspiration raising– more time to build trust– more support and encouragement– environmental adaptations potentially– support for families/carers– Sustainable named Careers Adviser

Students with communication/interaction or cognition and learning difficulties who areless likely to be taking exams that employers recognise like GCSEs will have Career development needs that are the:

– Same– Same and different– Different

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The Careers and Enterprise Company and SEND

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Enterprise Adviser Network - Special Schools Coverage

Total Special Schools900

268

63%

30%

No. of special schools signed up to the Enterprise Adviser Network

% Coverage

% Special schools matched with an Enterprise Adviser

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Focus on SEND• Careers and Enterprise Company SEND group - leverage

collective expertise• Appointment of Talentino as strategic partner SEND• Joint statement with the Gatsby Foundation – ALL young

people, parity• Tools and resources e.g. SEND Gatsby Benchmark Toolkit• Compass - Data on progress being made by Special Schools• CEC Fund 2018 – 20 new SEND focused projects around

the country launching 2019• Special Schools presence in every Careers Hub

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Compass – Careers Support is improving

49.0%

12.5%

36.6%

38.3%

25.9%

13.1%

31.8%

6.1%

17.5%

73.0%

26.1%

43.4%

85.6%

40.6%

91.9%

33.5%

14.5%

37.3%

61.7%

30.7%

1.3%

27.6%

2.0%

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Eight - Personal guidance

Seven - Encounters with further and…

Six - Experiences of workplaces

Five - Encounters with employers and…

Four - Linking curriculum learning to…

Three - Addressing the needs of each…

Two - Learning from career and labour…

One - A stable careers programme

Compass performance -

National

Achieved Partially achieved Not achieved

52.1%

2.1%

33.3%

28.9%

25.0%

20.5%

18.2%

3.3%

6.8%

64.0%

20.2%

33.3%

79.5%

50.0%

91.4%

41.1%

33.9%

46.4%

71.1%

41.7%

0.0%

31.8%

5.4%

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Eight - Personal guidance

Seven - Encounters with further and higher…

Six - Experiences of workplaces

Five - Encounters with employers and…

Four - Linking curriculum learning to careers

Three - Addressing the needs of each pupil

Two - Learning from career and labour…

One - A stable careers programme

Compass performance - Special Schools

(3,4=,8)

Achieved Partially achieved Not achieved

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What Talentino is focusing on: – Helping the CEC to create a SEND strategy

– Enabling the CEC to answer the question ‘Who are we talking about?’ so we can build an organisation knowledgeable about young people with SEND in whatever type of school they attend

– Building a virtual team of skilled practitioners in SEND in schools, the network, employers to help inform what CEC needs to pay attention to

– Curating appropriate resources through design and resources created through OGL

– Creating guidance, for example on the use of Compass by Special Schools

– Ensuring tools and evaluation tools can be applied in a range of SEND settings

– Build relationships with all types of Special Schools and mainstream schools with SEND students

– Effective employer engagement around young people with SEND

– Help do what all of you do everyday and put young people with SEND on the careers map

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Resources to help you

• Careers Hubs

• Careers Leaders

• Training for Careers Leaders

• Informed Network

• Dedicated resources

– SEND Gatsby Toolkit

– Fuelling Futures

– Transition Report

• Online training ETF

Further Resources• https://barclayslifeskills.com/educators/tags/curriculum-tags/send - A set of 11 lesson plans specifically designed by Talentino to use with young

people with additional needs

• https://www.preparingforadulthood.org.uk/downloads/employment/work-experience-guidance.htm - A guide to work experience that we co-wrote with a brilliant supported employment provider that gives advice to schools, families and employers

• https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/sites/default/files/uploaded/the_send_gatsby_benchmark_toolkit_v2.pdf - You will find lots of case studies and top tips for schools and employers in this complete guide as well as lots of help on fulfilling the Gatsby Benchmarks

• https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/sites/default/files/uploaded/national_grid_-_employer_engagement_toolkit.pdf - This is a fabulous guide to Supported Internships which employers can use as a step by step guide from an employer who has made a big difference to young people’s lives

• https://www.et-foundation.co.uk/supporting/support-practitioners/special-educational-needs-disabilities-send-resources/ -The Education and Training Foundation has created a large number of SEND resources, it might take some time to navigate because there are so many!

• https://www.autism.org.uk/get-involved/tmi/employment.aspx - This is a campaign to improve the number of people with Autism who want to work, makes sobering reading

• http://www.catcoteacademy.co.uk/ - Watch this film and it will light up your whole week!

• https://brookfieldsschool.org/curriculum/what-we-teach/pathway-to-employment/ - Watch this film and your week will be even brighter!

• https://www.mencap.org.uk/sites/default/files/2017-06/Easy%20Read%20guide%20about%20finding%20a%20job.pdf – A series of easy read guides for people with learning difficulties to help them find employment

• www.thecdi.net/Corecode/Search/Search.aspx?term=SEND This one day course is not free but is being run by Talentino for the CDI

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Any Questions jenny@talentinocareers.co.uk

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