Provider Access Policy for Careers Education, Information, Advice & Guidance (CEIAG)
CEIAG (Careers Education, Information, Advice & Guidance) Provider Access Policy
Policy details
Date created - September 2022
Date reviewed - September 2024
Date approved - 2 September 2024
Next review date - Autumn term 2025
Policy owner - Careers Lead (Richard Haseler)
Access for colleges, training providers, university technical colleges, and all other post 16 providers offering technical votation and academic routes and apprenticeships
This policy statement sets out our academy’s arrangements for managing the access of education and training providers to students for the purpose of giving them information about the various post 16 routes.
It sets out:
- Procedures in relation to requests for access
- The grounds for granting and refusing requests for access
- Details of premises or facilities to be provided to a person who is given access
1.Statutory requirements
All schools / academies are required to ensure that there is an opportunity for a range of education and training providers to access students in years 8 to 13 for the purposes of informing them about approved technical education, qualifications or apprenticeships. This complies with the school’s legal obligations under Section 42B of the Education Act 1997.
In addition to the Baker Clause, an amendment to the above stipulates that schools must allow colleges and training providers access to every student in years 8 - 13 to discuss non-academic routes that are available to them. It is expected that by doing so this will help address the UK’s productivity challenges and address skills shortages experienced across several sectors of the economy. In line with the updated Provider Access Legislation, from January 2023, all students will have at least six encounters with providers of approved technical education qualifications or apprenticeships.
This is broken down into key phases: -
- 1st key phase: Year 8 or 9 two encounters for students that are mandatory for all to attend
- 2nd key phase: Year 10 or 11 two encounters for students that are mandatory for all to attend
- 3rd key phase: Year 12 or 13 two encounters that are mandatory for the academy to offer but optional for students to attend
2.Pupil entitlement (intended learning outcomes)
At Co-op Academy Manchester we will use Gatsby Benchmarks as a framework of best practice to develop and improve our careers provision to ensure that we not only fulfil legal duties of providing opportunities for a range of education and training providers to access all students in Year 7 to year 13 but to also have CEIAG programs that meet the needs of an ever changing cohort. All of our students are entitled:
- To find out about technical education qualifications and apprenticeships opportunities, as part of a careers programme which provides information on the full range of education and training options available at each transition point;
- To hear from a range of local providers about the opportunities they offer, including technical education and apprenticeships
- To understand how to make applications for the full range of academic and technical courses.
These provider encounters will be scheduled during the main academy hours and there will a minimum expectation that our providers will provide :-
- Information about the provider and the approved technical education qualifications or apprenticeships they offer
- Information about the careers to which those technical education qualifications or apprenticeships might lead i.e career routes
- Description of what learning or training with the provider is like, including the opportunity to meet staff and students where possible
- Opportunities for students to ask questions , including our most vulnerable and those with additional learning needs.
Further detail of our CEIAG programme is available on our website
3. Management of provider access requests
3.1 Procedure
A provider wishing to request access should contact and complete the form below
CEIAG Leader : Richard Haseler
Telephone: 0161 795 3005
Email: richard.haseler@coopacademies.co.uk
The following information is needed:-
1.Name of provider requesting access and details of provision:
2.Contact name of provider and contact details:
3.Number of staff who propose to visit
4.Aims and objectives of session including suggested year group(s)
5.Proposed format, timings and duration of session including facilities and equipment required:
3.2 Opportunities for access
Our academy will offer the six provider encounters required by law and a number of additional events, integrated into our careers program. We will offer providers an opportunity to come into our academies to speak to students and/or their parents or carers.
Calendar of encounters
Year 7
Autumn term
Assemblies
PSHE/tutor
BBC Roadshow
Employability skills
Careers in the curriculum
Spring term
Assemblies
Careers week
National Apprenticeship Week
PSHE/tutor
Employability skills
Careers in the curriculum
Summer term
Assemblies
PSHE/tutor
Employability Skills
Careers in the curriculum
Year 8
Autumn term
Girls Out Loud
Dragon’s Den
BBC Roadshow
Careers in the curriculum
Spring term
Girls Out Loud
REACH
Careers in the curriculum
Careers week
National Apprenticeship Week
Assemblies
HE experience
Summer term
Girls Out Loud
REACH
Dragon’s Den
Careers in the curriculum
Assemblies
STEM Challenge
Year 9
Autumn term
REACH
Girls Out Loud
Envision
Careers in the curriculum
BBC Roadshow
Assemblies
Spring term
REACH
Girls Out Loud
Envision
Careers in the curriculum
Careers week
National Apprenticeship Week
Assemblies
HE Experience
GM Higher
Option Evening
Summer term
Careers in the curriculum
Assemblies
REACH
Girls out Loud
PSHE/tutor
Year 10
Autumn term
KPMG visit
PWC visit
Careers in the curriculum
Assemblies
PSHE/tutor
Spring term
Careers in the curriculum
Careers week
National Apprenticeship Week
Assemblies
PSHE/tutor
Summer term
Mock Interviews
Careers Fair
Post 16 Fair
Careers in the curriculum
Assemblies
PSHE/tutor
Year 11
Autumn term
Careers Fair
Go For Growth
NHS visits
Careers in the curriculum
Assemblies
PSHE/tutor
Spring term
Go For Growth
Curriculum
Assemblies
National Apprenticeship week
National Careers Week
Careers in the curriculum
Assemblies
PSHE/tutor
GCSE Mock Results Day
Summer term
Go For Growth
Careers in the curriculum
Assemblies
NCS assembly
Careers in the curriculum
Additional support for vulnerable students
Autumn term
EHCP Reviews
PEP Reviews
Support with applications
Spring term
EHCP Reviews
PEP Reviews
Support with applications
Support with interviews
Summer term
EHCP Reviews
PEP Reviews
Support with applications
Support with transition
Staff CPD
Autumn term
Introduction to CEIAG
Careers in the Curriculum
LMI
Spring term
Apprenticeships and Traineeships
LMI
Summer term
Year 11 transition
LMI
FE and HE update
3.3 Safeguarding
Our policy on safeguarding, which can be found on our website, sets out our approach to allowing providers into our academy as visitors to talk to our students
Education and training providers will be expected to adhere to this policy.
3.4 Premises and facilities
Our academy will make the main hall, classrooms or private meeting rooms available for discussions between the provider and students, as appropriate to the activity.
The academy will also make available AV and other specialist equipment to support provider presentations. This will all be discussed and agreed in advance of the visit with the Careers Leader or a member of their team.
Providers are welcome to leave a copy of their prospectus or other relevant course literature at reception, from here they will be delivered to the careers room and the careers section in the library. This facility is available to all students at lunch and break times.
4. Monitoring arrangements
Co-op Academy Manchester arrangements for managing the access of education and training providers to our students is monitored by Angela Davey, Careers Coordinator, angela.davey@coopacademies.co.uk
This policy will be reviewed by Richard Haseler. At every review, the policy will be approved by the governing board and the headteacher.
5. Student destinations
Last year, our year 11 pupils moved to a range of providers in the local area after school Here are the destinations of Y11 students that left our academy In July 2024:-
Sixth Form College: 25.31%
FE College: 68.21%
Apprenticeships: 1.23%
Employment with training: 0.93%