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14-19 Learning

Overview

Young people aged 14-19 years old face numerous challenges today. It is the key transition period in their lives as they move from school to the next stage.
 
This could be moving into work, onto an Apprenticeship, or to continue studying at school or at a college of further education. This is getting more complicated as the “raising of the participation age” regulations come in for young people currently in year 11.
 
For a significant number of young people this is further complicated by the fact that they have not had the best start in life. There are a number of factors that either on their own or combined together can hold them back.
These include:
  • poor housing
  • low income levels
  • few role models of people in stable work
  • limited aspirations educationally and in career choices
  • direct and indirect discrimination.
Young people can quickly fall behind at school and not catch up. They are then likely to join the large number of people Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET).  

What is Enable doing about it?  

Enable’s direct work with young people aims to help break the cycle. We manage programmes for young people that:
  • support them in gaining skills and qualifications
  • improve their literacy and numeracy
  • tackle issues that impact upon them
  • help them to start and progress in jobs

For those aged 14-16 the aim is to improve their qualifications and behaviour keeping them in school. For those aged 16 and over the aim is to give them the skills and support they need to move into purposeful education, employment or training. This includes the delivery of Apprenticeships, with young people training and working in the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS). 

At the same time Enable work in the background influencing stakeholders to ensure the unique contribution that the VCS brings to work with young people is valued and supported.

Learning Provider Consortium

As part of this activity, Enable manages the Learning Provider Consortium. This is a group of providers that have come together to offer alternative education programmes to schools, academies, pupil referral units, and learning centres for young people aged 14-16. This focuses upon achieving educational aims but using something that interests them such as sport, music or art.

Several of the strategic bodies that Enable represents the VCS on focus on young people as all, or part of, their activities. These include:
  • The Nottingham City Council 14 -19 board
  • The Nottinghamshire partnership board - Children, Families & Cultural Services
  • The Nottinghamshire Foundation Learning, Employment, Employment and Training (FLEET) group
The contracts that support young people tend to have an age focus. Some are for young people 14-16, some 16-18, other both and some start at 16 and go over 18. 
 
The programmes that Enable is currently delivering are:

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