Support for 16-17 year olds Not in Education, Employment or Training during COVID19

Please find an update below on the arrangements in place for Prospects to support 16 and 17 year olds who are Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) during COVID-19. Further information will follow in due course.

1. Tracking of 16 and 17 year old young people who are Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) and Not Known

Prospects will continue to track remotely young people who are NEET and Not Known and will submit monthly DfE returns as normal.

2. Provision of careers information, advice and guidance

Prospects will deliver a remote service (as opposed to face-to-face careers advice and guidance) to those young people who are NEET.

3. Support for young people

Website: www.prospectsnow.me

Freephone number: 0800 731 3219 – choose option 3 for Warwickshire 

DfE launches ‘Skills Toolkit’ to signpost to free online courses

The Department for Education has launched a web page that signposts people to free courses that can develop their digital and numeracy skills during lockdown. 

Thirteen free courses are available through a new online platform hosted on the gov.uk website, called The Skills Toolkit. The new platform gives people access to free, high-quality digital skills, literacy and numeracy courses to help build up their skills, progress in work and boost their job prospects.  

The courses go from foundation level upwards and are provided by organisations including the Good Things Foundation, Lloyds Bank, the Open University, FutureLearn, Cisco and Google.

Read more on the gov.uk website

Free learning available on the Open University's OpenLearn site

OpenLearn's free, bite-sized online learning is available to develop new knowledge and skills while working from home.

There are over 1000 courses available ranging from academic to vocational, which your staff or post-16 students can access.

Visit the OpenLearn website to find out more