The careers statutory guidance makes it clear that schools and colleges should offer every young person at least one experience of a workplace by age 16 and a further experience by age 18, in line with Gatsby Benchmark 6.<\/p>
The department funds the Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC) to support schools and colleges to provide high quality experiences of workplaces. The CEC undertake targeted work with employers to stimulate employer engagement that will support young people with special educational needs and disabilities. The department will continue to make the case for employers to provide work experience for young people with special educational needs.<\/p>
For young people aged 16 to 24 with Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans, the department offers Supported Internships which are personalised study programmes, specifically designed to help young people to prepare for and transition into sustained, paid employment.<\/p>
In February 2022, the department announced that it is providing funding of up to\u202f£18\u202fmillion\u202fover\u202fthe\u202fnext three years\u202fto build capacity in the\u202fSupported Internships\u202fprogramme. The aim is to double the number of Supported Internships\u202fto give more young people with an EHC plan the skills to secure and sustain paid employment.<\/p>
As part of this funding, the department has a contract with the Internships Work consortium, led by the National Development Team for Inclusion, to deliver activities to expand and improve Supported Internships provision across the country.<\/p>
The Internships Work consortium will be working closely with local authorities to double the number of Supported Internships per year by 2025 and will engage with all partners in the system to level up the quality of internships across the country. Over 700 job coaches will be trained by 2025 to ensure interns receive high quality support on their work placements.<\/p>
Finally, in the Spring Budget 2023, the Chancellor announced up to £3 million to pilot extending Supported Internship to young people without EHC plans. Through this pilot, the department will seek to establish whether the Supported Internship model is an effective approach for learners with learning difficulties and disabilities but without an EHC plan. The department will identify the benefits and challenges of using the Supported Internship model to support this cohort and use learning from the pilot to consider if and how the approach could be rolled out more widely.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3985", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Robert Halfon"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Harlow"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Robert Halfon"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2023-07-18", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2023-07-18T15:59:01.263Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "60"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Education"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2023-07-13", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Work Experience: Special Educational Needs"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that children with special educational needs and disabilities have equal access to work experience.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4698", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Janet Daby"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Lewisham East"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Janet Daby"} ], "uin" : "194061"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1011438", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Foreign and Commonwealth Office"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1011438/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
\u200bThe British Government has not provided funding for Radio Dabanga in any of the last five years.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4107", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dame Harriett Baldwin"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "West Worcestershire"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Harriett Baldwin"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2018-11-26", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2018-11-26T16:48:34.893Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "16"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Foreign and Commonwealth Office"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Foreign and Commonwealth Office"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2018-11-21", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Sudan: Radio"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what funding has been allocated by his Department to the Sudanese media outlet Radio Dabanga in each of the last five years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1441", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Lord Bellingham"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "North West Norfolk"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Sir Henry Bellingham"} ], "uin" : "194061"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/45526", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Ministry of Defence"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/45526/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
In the next six months the UK is planning to participate in thirty-seven joint and multinational training exercises in a NATO context.<\/p>
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These exercises will take place on the territory of, in the waters around or in the skies above the following countries:<\/p>
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Canada<\/p>
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