This document provides a summary of employability briefings for the North Eastern LEP from September 2016, May 2017, November 2017, and September 2018. The briefings analyze student-employer encounters arranged by teachers to identify areas of progress and focus. Key highlights noted include an increase in the number of schools and employers participating over time, with the number of student encounters growing significantly. Recommendations focus on continuing to expand employer participation across additional schools in the region.

1. Employability Briefing
North Eastern LEP
Sherry Coutu CBE
7th September 2018

2. Aims of the session
Reminder of history
(Sept 2016, May 2017, Nov 2017)
Feedback on progress
Recommendations going forward...
Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP

3. Founders4Schools has analysed the student-employer encounters being arranged by teachers
across the country to build up a picture of where the most progress is being made and where we
need to turn our attention to.
This is the Briefing and Recommendations made to Founders4Schools’ Advisory Board since
inception to help them close their skills gap & scale-up gap.
7 Sept 2018
This analysis is pulled from a data extraction dated 15 September 2016, 8 Nov 2017 and 1
Sept 2018
Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP

4. Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2016 (reminder)
The Employability Index:
Cold Spots & the Employability Index
Employability Matrix
Q3 Student-Employer Encounters in the North Eastern
LEP
Recommendations for closing the scaleup skills gap
Contents:

5. Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2016
Green: Top 10
Amber: Middle 19
Red: Bottom 10

7. Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2016
Key Highlights in the Sept 2016 Briefing:
1. NE LEP has a great ‘inventory’ of employers available to invite into your schools and a really nice mix of
growth and revenue ranges
2. The Schools that are using our service are arranging the student-employer encounters for a nice range of ages
with a skew towards secondary at the moment (slide 10)
3. Your schools have a heavy skew (93.6%) towards ‘in class’ encounters with role models (rather than ‘whole
school career fairs’ or ‘work place visits’ (slide 11). There is an opportunity to increase your workplace visits and
to think about whether or not you wish to use F4S in order to increase the representation of SME employers at
your career fairs.
4. Slides 15, 16 and 17 show the ‘under-utilisation’ of your employers by schools in your LEP – 10 of the 118
employers have been called upon to date to visit a class and only 1 has been called upon to host a workplace
visit. There is low hanging fruit!
5. Slide 18 shows that your star school is Studio West which has arranged in-class events, whole school career fairs
AND workplace visits.

8. Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2016
If we group the LEP by their CEC cold spot analysis and then overlay where the most
F4S employability encounters are taking place, it allows us to see which areas will
progress fastest...
Green = Top 10
Amber = Middle 19
Red = Bottom 10

9. Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2016
We would love to help you move your student-employer encounters to the right-hand side of this graph...
Green = Top 10
Amber = Middle 19
Red = Bottom 10

10. Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2018
This is the ‘Actual’
Green = Top 10
Amber = Middle 19
Red = Bottom 10

11. Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2018
This is the ‘Actual’

13. Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2018

14. Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2018

15. Key Highlights in the Sept 2018 Briefing
Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2018
❏ We are pleased to report that business leaders have volunteered 578 hours of their time to visit
classrooms or to host work experience placements in North East via our platform.
❏ These 35,890 encounters with employers help improve each student's ability to understand the
jobs they might hold or create in the future and decreases the likelihood of their ever becoming
NEET.
❏ Your educators is above average and we’ve seen you progress from 21 of 39 LEPs in Sept
2016 to 2 of 38 in Q3 2018.

16. Key Highlights in the Sept 2018 Briefing
Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2018
These are the six companies whose employees have volunteered the greatest number of hours in this community….
● Westray Recruitment Consultants Ltd
● Simpson Print Ltd
● Baltic Training Services Ltd
● Bryony Gibson Consulting Ltd
● Connect Physical Health Centres Ltd
● Safinah Ltd

17. Key Highlights in the Sept 2018 Briefing
Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2018
These are the people in your community who have given your students the most volunteer hours….

18. Key Highlights in the Sept 2018 Briefing
Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2018
The latest Business Leaders to accept invitations for student encounters are…

19. Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2018
Map view of the schools calling business leaders into their classrooms
September 2016
September 2018

20. Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2018
September 2016:
Three schools in the
North East LEP were
using F4S in
September 2016.

21. Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2018
September 2018:
11 Schools are
already over 1
Student Employer
encounters per pupil

22. Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2018
September 2018:
13 Schools have
arranged more than
1000 Student
Employer encounters

23. Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2018

24. Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2018
2015 - Q3 2018
21 of 39 LEPs by
Student-Employer
Encounters as of
October 2016;
18 of 39 as of
December 2016.

25. Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2018

26. Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2018
2015 - Q3 2018
21 of 39 LEPs by
Student-Employer
Encounters as of
October 2016;
18 of 39 as of
December 2016;
2 of 38 as at Q3
2018

27. Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2018
CEC Research: What works in Careers and Enterprise

28. Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2018
The Gatsby Framework

29. Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2018
Education Establishments and Pupil Population age 15 - 18
There is a great opportunity to bring business
leaders into many more secondary schools in
your LEP!

30. Aim: To increase the number of
Student Employer Encounters
across Scotland per 1000
students
Communications
To communicate
regularly and
purposefully with
target audiences to
inspire and report
on the use of the
platform.
Mission: Our mission is to inspire
students and prepare them for the
rapidly changing world of work.
Relationship
Management
DYW, LAs, Partners
To work
collaboratively to
drive SEEs
throughout
Scotland
Workshop Delivery
Workshops to drive
use and support of
the platform.
Events and
Schools
Management
To support and
guide both
educators and
partners in using
the platform to its
full potential

31. Employability Briefing North Eastern LEP
Sept 2018
Key Checklist to Eradicate the Skills Crisis

32. Any questions?