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Learning from Practice
Challenges and issues for adult guidance sectors
| Date: | Wednesday 6 February 2008 |
| Venue: | National College for School Leadership (NCSL), Triumph Road, Nottingham NG8 1DH |
| Ref: | C15-65 |
| Fee*: | £198 (includes lunch, tea/coffee) NB: NIACE does not charge VAT on conference and course fees |
[Background & Aims] [Audience] [Programme]
Background
The proposed development of an adult advancement and careers service has occupied an increasingly prominent place in learning, skills and employment policy following the publication of World Class Skills: implementing the Leitch Review of Skills in July 2007. Details of the structure and features of the proposed service are gradually emerging and are ambitious. It will seek to support all adults to flourish in learning and work, and provide a link to sources of advice and support on wider needs such as finance, housing and childcare that can act as barriers to participation.
Supporting adults whose learning and skills development needs are greatest, and who face stubborn obstacles to successful participation in learning and career advancement, will be central to the purpose of the new adult careers service. Yet research suggests both that awareness and use of information, advice and guidance services by people from marginalised groups are relatively low, and that advisers working outside specialist providers often feel under-equipped to meet their distinctive and complex needs.
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Aims
This conference, brought to you jointly by the Centre for Guidance Studies (CeGS) and NIACE, will bring together practitioners, providers, academics and other stakeholders to share and broaden their knowledge and understanding of developing information, advice and guidance services that empower adults to move from the margins to the mainstream.
It will explore how evidence from current practice and experience in working with marginalised groups can inform the development of the adult careers service and highlight key issues for consideration at the levels of both policy and practice.
Participants will have opportunities to:
 | Explore the challenges and issues that the ambition for a universal adult advancement and careers service poses for the adult learning and adult guidance sectors |
| Debate the concept of 'advancement' and its meaning in relation to marginalised groups |
| Consider what the evidence tells us about meeting the information, advice and guidance needs of adults from marginalised groups |
| Reflect on the implications for their own work of the current policy agenda, and in particular the focus on supporting participation and progression among adults from marginalised groups |
| Learn from practitioners using innovative and effective approaches in the field. |
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Audience
The event will be of particular interest to:
| Policy-makers and Managers of adult learning provision (college/LA/community based) |
| Contract managers (Learning and Skills Councils etc.) |
| Managers of adult guidance services |
| Train to Gain brokers |
| Careers Scotland/Careers Wales |
| Careers England partners/careers company leads |
| Regional Development Agencies |
| Regional Strategic Partnerships |
| Lifelong Learning UK |
| ENTO |
| Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services |
| National Association for Managers of Students Services in Colleges (NAMSS) |
| The Federation of Professional Association in Guidance |
| The National Institute for Careers Education and Counselling |
| National Association for Educational Guidance for Adults |
| Centre for Guidance Studies |
| Trades Union Congress |
| Directgov |
| Confederation of British Industry |
| Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform |
| Business Links (or equivalent) |
| Department for Work and Pensions |
| Job Centre plus (regional). |
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Programme
| 09:45 | Arrival and registration (tea/coffee available) |
| 10:00 | Welcome and introduction to the
day Chair: Dr. Helen Plant, Senior Research Officer, NIACE |
| 10:10 | Keynote address 1: Fishing in
the footnotes: what you can and can’t do with policy evidence in adult
skills and IAG Michael Davis, Managing Director, Centre for Enterprise |
| 10:30 | Keynote address 2: The new
Adult Careers Service: Both universal and targeted? Professor Tony Watts, NICEC / The Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby |
| 11:00 | Tea/coffee break |
| 11:15 | Workshops (Please indicate
your choices on the application form) Working with excluded groups: practical approaches from the field 1.1 Offenders and ex-offenders 1.2 People with mental health difficulties 1.3 Migrant workers 1.4 Older people 1.5 Women from black and minority ethnic communities with historically low levels of female participation in paid work |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 13:25 | Welcome back Chair: Mark Ravenhall, Associate Director, NIACE |
| 13:30 | Workshops (Please indicate
your choices on the application form) Working with excluded groups: practical approaches from the field Theme repeated with different presenter 1.6 Offenders and ex-offenders 1.7 People with mental health difficulties 1.8 Migrant workers 1.9 Older people 1.10 Women from black and minority ethnic communities with historically low levels of female participation in paid work |
| 14:30 | Break |
| 14:45 | Keynote address 3: Messages for
the new Adult Careers Service on working with marginalised groups Dr Jenny Bimrose, Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick |
| 15:00 | Panel discussion and Question & Answer session |
| 15.30 | Close of conference (tea/coffee available) |
This programme is correct at the time of going to press. The organisers reserve the right to make changes to the published programme in the event of one or more of the advertised speakers being unable to attend. Delegates will have no claim against NIACE in respect of such changes.
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