Enterprise coordinator role activity

Careers education plays a pivotal role in achieving the Luton 2040 vision of a child friendly town where our children and young people grow up feeling happy, healthy and secure.

Access to good careers education ensures that:

• every child from all backgrounds receives an excellent offer raises aspiration and experiences
• everyone has the chance to make choices about and succeed in their future

NEET (not in education employment or training) has been identified a pre-determinant of health inequality. Some young people face multiple difficulties in making their next best step. It's recognised that careers education has a role to play in removing barriers, providing inspiration and raising aspirations.

Key facts

• The poorest children are 11 months behind when starting school
• Wealthy children are 2.5 time more likely to end up wealthy
• Disadvantaged young people are more likely to become NEET

Key themes

The enterprise coordinator and the 14 to 19 team held a professional development event, ‘Challenging disadvantaged through an inclusive approach to careers education'. The key themes were:

• social mobility: the role of careers in helping develop equality of opportunity
• inspiring collaboration with internal and external stakeholders
• tailoring support for students from disadvantaged backgrounds
• success and performance: what is needed from data collection and success criteria
• effectively monitoring and evaluating the success of careers programmes and strategies