Young people are the future

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Young people are the future

• Apprenticeships at Chesterfield Borough Council
• Jenny Caitlin
• Learning and Development Officer
• Chesterfield Borough Council

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Taking on Apprentices

• Chesterfield Borough Council is committed to
  increasing the number of apprenticeships
• At present we have 18 apprentices in building
  services in craft skills
• We would like to increase the number, age range
  and vocational options in other services by
  creating apprenticeships in the future

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A variety of apprentice jobs

• carpentry and Joinery gas engineering
• plumbing electrical
• bricklaying stores
• We run a rigorous selection process and aim high
• Our apprentices have consistently won regional
  national awards

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It worked for us!
The Central Services Manager at the Borough
Council has said The apprentices are
essential to the sustainability of our workforce.
We train them in our policies and working
practices which ensures we can maintain our team
of highly skilled craftspeople
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Along came the the Skills Pledge

• We signed up and committed to up-skill our
  workforce to a baseline of level 2.
• We started with an NVQ Open Day in December
• So far 32 people have achieved NVQ 2
• Another 30 are signed up on NVQs

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Support from Providers

• We work with Derby Corporate College, DART, South
  Notts College, Swan Training and Chesterfield
  College to access government funded training
• We have always offered NVQs and there have been
  pockets of take up in some service areas,
• we now promote, co-ordinate and monitor from HR
  to ensure systematic identification and take up
  of development needs

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The future

• We are starting a Skills for Life session
• We are looking at traineeships in deprived wards
• We are looking at Level 2 qualifications in some
  of the hard to reach groups e.g. streetscene
• we are very, very busy

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However

• Only 5 of our workforce is aged 16-25 years old
  
• Yet 34 of our workforce is over 51 years of age
  
• This could create problems in future
• We older ones are passing through
• We have to develop others and enable them to
  create the future

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Skills Pledge
Part of our commitment is to increase the number
vocational range of apprenticeships for people
of all ages in other service areas We see it as
instrumental in equipping tomorrows workforce
with the right skills and qualifications to
provide high quality services We aim to
integrate into our existing procedures by
exploring suitable skills frameworks for vacant
posts to turn them into apprenticeships. Scales
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Wonderful things come from small beginnings
Thank you for listening