What is Local Partnership Working?
Careers Scotland works together with other local organisations to link lifetime guidance to lifelong learning. The activities include provision of information, advice and guidance for:
- Learning
- Work
- Volunteering
- Personal development
In particular, it focuses on taking these services out to people who could benefit from them but who might not seek them on their own.
Priorities
Our aim is to agree a set of priorities for local partnership working which supports Careers Scotland’s work with key client groups and which responds to Scottish Government policy developments.
Strategic Local Partnership Working
- Establish Careers Scotland within Community Planning as a partner in its own right in each local authority where this has not already been achieved.
- Develop the national profile of partnership working activity and the contribution of all stakeholders through the Scottish Guidance Network.
- Articulate the contribution of lifelong career guidance within local lifelong learning policies and strategies with particular reference to Integrated Children’s Strategies, Community Learning and Development, Youth Strategies and Local Authority NEET Strategies/Action plans and responses to Workforce Plus.
- Highlight the position of career guidance in key partnerships and strategies as playing a central role in prevention and reduction of 16-19 year old unemployed.
- Increase awareness and understanding of the contribution that Careers Scotland can make to partnership working with reference to community regeneration economic/workforce development and lifelong learning.
- Ensure that colleagues understand and recognise the wider role of career guidance. Utilise local resources effectively, through focussed and innovative partnership working.
Building Local Partnership working
- Embed partners understanding of the principles of career guidance and the Careers Scotland operating model, through delivery of Front Line Guidance courses, and by adding to previous capacity building activities.
- Strengthen community regeneration, economic/workforce development and lifelong learning partnership working, which supports Careers Scotland in accessing 16-19 unemployed clients and other key target groups (e.g. disadvantaged and disengaged adults in transition).
- Develop and extend work with key intermediaries to improve our contact with hard to reach groups (target customer groups), especially 18-19 year olds.
- Increase the number and quality of referrals from and to other guidance delivery partners.
- Engage more effectively with users and non-users in the design and development of Careers Scotland services.
- Learn from how others work – applying the principles of a Community Learning and Development approach to work in and with communities, especially in contacting hard to reach groups.
