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Hub Newsletter – 04.11.2024

We hope you have had a lovely half term break. Taking on board your feedback, our Hub Newsletter will be coming out fortnightly moving forward.

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Gatsby Foundation – Good Career Guidance, The Next Ten Years

  • Publication date – Monday 18th November 2024

The South Midlands Careers Hub will be running Gatsby Benchmark Masterclasses throughout the 2024-25 academic year in response to the published refinements to the Gatsby Benchmarks.

On Thursday 21st November we will be running the following online briefing and discussion groups:

  • Career Leader briefing and discussion group – 12:30pm – 2:00pm
  • Senior Leaders / Governors briefing  – 8:00am – 8:20am
  • Senior Leaders / Governor briefing – 3:45pm – 4:05pm

We will then set dates throughout the year to focus on each individual benchmark.

To book your place please select the link below and an invitation will be sent to you. Please share with senior leaders and governors in your school/college.

Book your place here

Upcoming Dates

Open to all so please share with relevant colleagues, please let us know if you have any queries or would like further information or to chat over any of the below activities:

Local AuthorityDateTimeVenueBooking Link
Bedford Borough
CL Network Meeting		Wednesday 13th November 20249.30am – 11:30amBedford CollegeEmail to book: Faye.Gadsby@semlep.com
Central Beds
CL Network Meeting		Friday 15th November 20249.00am – 11:00amPriory House, Chicksands, SG17 5TQEmail to book: Lucy.Mugoya@semlep.com
North Northants
CL Network Meeting		Thursday 14th November 20242:30pm – 4:30pmTresham College, Kettering CampusEmail to book: ccoles@bedford.ac.uk
West Northants
CL Network Meeting		Tuesday 19th November 20248.30am – 10:30amNorthampton CollegeEmail to book: Vikki.Morton@semlep.com

Provider Opportunities

A range of exciting new provider opportunities have been uploaded to the Partner News area of our website take a look here

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Hub Newsletter – 30.09.2024

We hope you have enjoyed a successful start to the 2024-25 academic year. We kicked of the year with a bang with our annual Careers Hub conference in partnership with the South Midlands Growth Hub, and the launch of our website. More information below!

Careers Hub Updates

Staffing
We have appointed a new Strategic Hub Lead for the Careers Hub. We are delighted to say that Yvonne Ashby will be taking on the role. We will therefore be recruiting for an Operational Hub Lead in the near future – watch this space!

Term 1 Kick Off
If you missed it, please do take a look at the slides from our online term 1 kick off meeting. This is something we will be running at the start of each term and is a 30 minute overview of all of the headlines for the coming term.

Career Leader Survey
We would appreciate it if any Careers Leaders could take the time to complete our Career Leader survey

Website Launch
We are really excited to launch our new South Midlands Careers Hub website. Please do visit and familiarise yourself with the content. Resources will continue to be added over the coming weeks and months (you may need to register on the site to access some of these), and we would like to encourage our schools and colleges and partners to use the site to share their own news and events. Some key links below:

Annual Conference – 24.09.2024
Thank you to the 203 delegates who joined our annual conference this month, to our keynote speaker Ryan Gibson from the Gatsby Foundation, and to our amazing panellists and exhibitors on the day. We had some great feedback from delegates and have including some comments below. Access the slides from the day here.

‘Great to network and meet from different sectors. Good to hear about developments coming up and things to look out for. It highlights the level of support that is available’

‘First time at one of these events. It was great to meet people and I found the workshops really informative’

‘Discussions about bridging the skills gap with employers, panellists and education was insightful and will help in my role as an Industry Partner’

Support for Careers Leaders

New Career Leader induction with Hub Leads – Thursday 24th October 3:30pm – 4:30pm. Email careershub@semlep.com to be sent the meeting link

This academic year our amazing Careers Hub Ambassadors Stacey Morris, Lee Nelson and Alyce Harris will be offering small group online support sessions covering the areas below.  These will last between 30 and 60 minutes.  If you are interested, please add your details and area of interest here.

  • SEND – Embedding Careers in the Curriculum BM3 & BM4
  • SEND – Enterprise projects BM6
  • SEND – First steps in employer engagement BM5
  • SEND – Cementing employer relationships BM5 & 6
  • SEND – Valuing your work all BMs
  • Mainstream – Developing a whole school stable careers programme BM1
  • Mainstream – support to embed LMI within curriculum learning and parental engagement BM3
  • Mainstream – Meaningful ways to enable encounters with employers and employees and link to the curriculum. BM4 & 5