Careers guidance

Ealing initiatives

Ealing youth and connexions service
Ealing youth and connexions service provides connexions personal advisors to support young people in accessing jobs, training and education.
Contact: John Redmond, Connexions manager
Tel: 020 8825 6973

Ealing apprenticeship programme (Ealing Council website)
The Ealing apprenticeships programme is for anyone between 16 and 24 who lives or goes to school in Ealing.

Work experience guidance

Work experience placements have many benefits to pupils, including providing insights into the skills and attitudes needed to work in particular sectors or with certain employers. Schools and LAs have a legal responsibility to look after the welfare of their pupils and must take reasonable steps to ensure work experience placements are safe.

Schools need to consider health and safety issues, insurance, hours and payments, subsistence, the reporting of accidents, limitations on the type of work and child protection issues. Health & Safety Executive guidance documents:

The Right Start - work experience for young people: health and safety basics for employers (pdf)

Resources

Jobs, work experience and skills

• Apprenticeships
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Jobcentre Plus

Careers guidance

• Jobs and skills search
• Young people career advisers
• Careersoft
• CASCAiD
• National careers service
• Success at schools

Volunteering

• The Conservation Volunteers (TCV)
• Volunteering England
• VSO - volunteering in the world's poorest countries