Fair Train Work Experience Project: Helping Young People Into Work It is broadly established that well planned work experience (volunteering to do work with the aim of gaining skills that can be used to prove/improve employability) significantly increases the chances that individuals will gain employment. Employers too benefit from work experience with its opportunity to get to know new potential employees before taking the decision to employ. Unfortunately, work experience has recently received bad publicity with the media portraying it as “unpaid forced labour” and as a consequence some employers have stopped offering work experience and young people are finding it hard to gain worthwhile work experience. The term “Work Experience” covers a diverse range of opportunities – there is no nationally accepted standard and usually no recognition or accreditation of the skills gained by those on a placement, or the commitment of the employees and employers who provide work experience. The Fair Train Work Experience Project will address all of these issues by providing a Quality Standard for Work Experience / Volunteering. This Quality Standard will be surrounded with nationally accredited Frameworks which will help employers and training providers to offer excellent quality work experience in the third sector. The Quality Standard will be spread across 3 levels; Bronze, Silver and Gold. This will inevitably allow for aspirational goals to enhance the quality of work experience opportunities provided. The Fair Train Work Experience Project is being delivered by Fair Train, being funded by the UKCES and is supported by the National Apprenticeship Service and Skills Third Sector. During the development phase we are offering early adopters the opportunity to adopt the framework and gain the Fair Train Quality Standard, without charge. To discover more about the features and benefits of the Quality Standard, if you have any questions or if you want to adopt the framework, please contact: Julie Millott [email protected] 07415211232 Thanks again Julie
Posted on: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 02:41:49 +0000
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