Founders4Schools' mission is to improve youth employability by ensuring young people have at least four encounters with employers each year between ages 8-16 and 140 hours of work experience between 16-24. This progress briefing outlines Founders4Schools' values, priority areas including Dundee, services provided to educators, students, partners, and key performance indicators. It also lists planned activities in Dundee and other locations from July to December 2017 and provides calls to action for educators, businesses, corporates, local government, parents, students, and media.

1. Progress Briefing for Dundee Stakeholder Group
Sherry Coutu CBE & Colette Filippi
4 July 2017

2. THE
BUSINESS
COMMUNIT
Y INTO THE
CLASSROO
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Student Employer Encounters

3. OUR MISSION &
GOALSFounders4Schools’ mission as a charity is
to improve society by increasing youth
employability
We do this by ensuring that young people
have at least four encounters with
employers each year while they are
between the age of 8 and 16 and 140 hours
of work experience placements between the
age of 16 and 24

4. The following values are firmly embedded in
the charity and guide us in everything that we
do:
➤ Scale: we measure our achievements by the
extent they work for our customers
➤ Collaborative : We achieve impact by working
collaboratively with customers & partners
➤ Achieve: we set and achieve our goals in
relation to our customer needs
➤ Leadership: We lead by example
➤ Execution: We commit to doing what we say
when we say how we say
OUR VALUES

5. OUR PRIORITY:
SEE/1000

6. OUR PRIORITY
AREASIn England
West Somerset
Norwich
Blackpool
Scarborough
Derby
Oldham
Bradford
Doncaster
Fenland & East Cambridgeshire
Hastings
Ipswich
Stoke
Newcastle
Manchester (WF)
Cambridge (WF)
Camden (WF)
In Scotland
Edinburgh
Inverness (tbd)
Aberdeen
Dundee
Stirling
Ayrshire
Glasgow

7. OUR CUSTOMER’S
JOURNEY….

8. CRITICAL IF YOUNG
PEOPLE ARE TO
RAISE THEIR
ASPIRATIONS AND
CAPITALISE ON THE
OPPORTUNITIES
AVAILABLE TO
THEM
The Research

9. THE GATSBY
BENCHMARKS
➤ A stable careers programme
➤ Learning from career and labour market informa
➤ Addressing the needs of each pupil
➤ Linking curriculum learning to careers
➤ Encounters with employers and employees
➤ Experiences of workplaces
➤ Encounters with further and higher education
➤ Personal guidance

10. ENCOUNTERS BY
AGE➤

11. ENCOUNTERS BY TYPE
(PER ANNUM)➤

12. ENCOUNTERS
BY TYPE (LAST
FOUR
QUARTERS)
➤

13. Services for
educators…..
(Kate Walker, Director of Education)

14. Guidance
About
Assets
In their local
labour
market
that are
available

15. Guidance
About
Impact of the
different
types of
Student-
Employer
Encounters

16. Services for Students……
(Iain Herd, General Manager for Workfinder)

17. ➤ Discover: Browse and discover local fast growing companies
- spark your imagination
➤ Filter: Refine searches by your favourite subjects - find
companies that excite you
➤ Apply: Apply for roles using template cover letters - it’s quick
and easy
➤ Contact: Apply for positions directly and take an active
approach
➤ Experience: Gain valuable experience and get ahead of the
crowd
➤ Guidance: Subscription to guidance services will get you to
140 hours of work experience by alerting you to fast-growing
businesses and charities in your local community that you
may not have thought about and guide you through
approaching them and securing valuable experience
Services for Students……

18. Services for Partners
Pete Ure, Director of Insights

19. Proposal for Creative
Industries

20. Proposals for Science Industry

21. KEY PERFORMANCE
INDICATORS (UNAUDITED)➤
The KPIs to draw together the team is as follows for 2017/2018:
Personal
• We exemplify our values of Scale, Collaboration, Achievement, Leadership
and Execution
Employer
• Number of Businesses Available for our Young People to Encounter
• Number of ‘volunteers’ per business
Educator
• Number of Encounters arranged per educator (per annum)
• Number of Educators per school who use our services
• % of Educational Establishments who take part in assessment exercise
Revenue

22. NOVEMBER

23. JANUARY

24. 13 Feb: Tom Hunter Dinner
• Fiona Lees (EA present)
• Glasgow
14 Feb: Inaugural Advisory
Update in Edinburgh
FEBRUARY

25. 28 March: Marketplace Launch
Sherry attended this launch which
was well attended by business
leaders, but there were very few
educators. Our focus is educators
MARCH

26. 18 Apr: Stirling
meeting with Stewart Carruth
and Kevin Kelman after
introduction by Steve Dunlop
(who I was introduced to by
Sandy Kennedy)
18 Apr: Edinburgh Briefing to
stakeholders from Edinburgh
20 Apr: Dundee & Aberdeen
stakeholder Briefings
APRIL

27. 4 May: met Malcolm
Buchanan (MD of RBS) to
ask about Employee
Engagement programme
& workplace visits in their
labs
5 May: Edinburgh
educators
9 May:
• Teacher Training
(Strathclyde Uni)
• Languages request:
Meryl James
• Advisory Update
(Glasgow)
19 May
• Teacher workshop
Stirling
MAY

28. JUNE
Stirling and East
Dunbartonshire are doing
well compared to the
others
Top Partner is
Entrepreneurial Scotland
5 June
Joint presentation with
DYW Glasgow to teachers
at YES event
June
Meetings with Glasgow,
Aberdeen, Stirling (Forth
Valley), Edinburgh and
Dundee DYW groups

29. JULY PLANNED ACTIVITIES (Dundee)
Call to Action
– the Cities
Advisor Group
meeting in
Aberdeen (4 July)
Introductory and
update meeting
in Dundee (4
July)
Call to Action
– Business
Leaders
Sign up as a
volunteer to
speak in a local
classroom
Marketing
campaign linked
with partners (6
campaigns
planned)
Call to Action
– Large
Corporates
Set up employee
engagement with
F4S to host
workplace visits
Campaign to sign
up corporates
Call to Action
– Educators
Train the DYW
team, to prepare
for school return
in August
Plan and Agree
input to
HeadTeacher
Leadership
Programme with
Columba 1400

30. AUGUST PLANNED ACTIVITIES
Call to Action
– the Cities
Advisor Group
meeting in Edinburgh
(3 August)
Speaking at Turing
Festival (2 August)
Attending meetings in
Inverness to agree
next steps
Agree and finalise the
MOU for SDS and F4S
Call to Action
– Business
Leaders
Sign up as a volunteer
to speak in a local
classroom
Further marketing
campaigns will be
planned with partners
Meeting to discuss
linking with STEM
Ambassadors
Call to Action
– Large
Corporates
Set up employee
engagement with F4S
for workplace visits
Campaign to sign up
corporates
Call to Action
– Educators
Meeting with Scottish
Government re
Enterprising Schools
Agree dates to meet
teachers with DYW
teams across different
cities
Factsheets, Slides and
Scottish Case Studies
prepared for Teacher
based training
Attend follow up days
on Head Teacher
Leadership
Programme

31. SEPTEMBER PLANNED ACTIVITIES
Call to Action
– to the
Cities
Advisor Group meeting in
Glasgow (7 September)
Speaking at IEE Conference
(7 September)
Celebratory Event Stirling
(8 September)
Attend DYW Board
meetings (Dundee and
Stirling)
Call to Action
– Business
Leaders
Sign up as a volunteer to
speak in a local classroom
Further marketing
campaigns will be planned
with partners
Call to Action
– Educators
Launch of Marketplace and
F4S in Aberdeen
Attend follow up days on
Head Teacher Leadership
Programme
Attend teacher session with
DYW in different cities
Assess links with Education
Scotland Standards on
Career Education and
School/employer Guidance
Call to Action
– Parents
How many SEE will my
child gain this year?
Ask the School?

32. OCTOBER PLANNED ACTIVITIES
Call to Action –
to the Cities
Advisor Group
meeting in Inverness
(25 October)
Advisor Group
meeting Aberdeen (26
October)
Call to Action –
Educators
Attend DYW reference
group in Forth Valley
to assess impact and
evaluate next steps
Attend follow up days
on Head Teacher
Leadership
Programme

33. NOVEMBER PLANNED ACTIVITIES
Call to Action –
to the Cities
Celebration event
with Entrepreneurial
Scotland (30
November)
Call to Action –
Educators
Continue to support
teacher groups
Attend follow up days
on Head Teacher
Leadership
Programme

34. DECEMBER PLANNED ACTIVITIES
Call to Action – to the Cities
Advisor Group meeting in
Glasgow (7 December)
Evaluate position in Scotland and
feedback to Hunter Foundation

35. DISCUSSION / CALL TO
ACTION – EDUCATORS➤ Pledge that each student
you are responsible for will
get their 4 student
employee encounters per
annum if they are under 16
and 1 week of work
experience per annum if
over the age of 16.
➤ Embed training on
employability into CPD and
ITE
➤ Datasets?

36. DISCUSSION / CALL TO ACTION –
BUSINESS LEADERS➤ Sign-up as a volunteer to
speak in a local classroom
or mentor in your
community

37. DISCUSSION -- CALL TO ACTION –
LARGE CORPORATES➤ Set-up Employee Engagement
with us and agree to host
workplace visits and work
experience placements

38. DISCUSSIO - CALL TO ACTION – LOCAL
GOVERNMENT➤ Pledge that each young person
will get 4 student-employer
encounters per annum
➤ Datasets?

39. DISCUSSION - CALL TO
ACTION – PARENTS
➤ Ask your child’s headteacher
“how many student employer encounters
my child will get this year?”
“Would you allow me to organise
Student-employer Encounters for you?”

40. DISCUSSION - CALL TO
ACTION – STUDENTS
➤ Ask your child’s teacher
“how many student employer encounters
my child will get this year?”
Can my child organise student-employer
encounters for their fellow students?

41. CALL TO ACTION – MEDIA
➤ Visit your community’s
dashboard
➤ sign-up for the free alert
service,
➤ and write about the
educators who are doing
the most!
8 September: Celebration of Progress (Stirling)
3 November: Celebration of Progress (Aberdeen)
30 November: Entrepreneurial Scotland award categ

42. Progress Briefing for Dundee Stakeholder Group
Colette Filippi
07887 935854
colette.filippi@founders4schools.org.uk
4 July 2017