Other Useful Resources and Websites
Click on the below links to find out on how to engage with Education Scotland and others:
- Yammer – The ideal place for practitioners and DYW leads to share ideas, resources, approaches and to network and collaborate with other practitioners and co-ordinators
- Sign up for the Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) monthly e-bulletin
- Education Scotland’s learning blog – Keep up to date with news and updates across the organisation
- Follow us on Twitter to get snippets of information @ESskills and use the hashtag #youngworkforce (email us at edsskills@educationscotland.gsi.gov.uk)
- DYW Website – The website contains key information including the suite of standards and guidance documents, resource and weblinks as well as news from our blogs and twitter feed
- Career Education Standard (3-18) – This document contains the entitlements and expectations as well as examples of ‘I can’ statements to support practitioners in developing career education from 3-18
- Work Placements Standard and benchmarking tool – The standard sets out the expectations for young people, employers, parents, schools and local authorities in advance, during and after a placement. Resources are in development to support schools and Local authorities achieve the ambitions of the standard with the self-evaluation exercise and work placements toolkit already available on our website
- School/Employer Partnership Guidance – for schools, employers and local authorities – These three documents support the aim of creating meaningful and productive partnerships in all secondary schools, highlighting the benefits and suggest practical steps
- SFC Early Adopter Programme Evaluation Report – Evaluation report on Scottish Funding Council’s Early Adopter Programme to guide regional partnerships in the development of senior phase vocational pathways
- DYW and Insight – An article outlining how the Insight benchmarking tool supports DYW
- Colleges Scotland Learner Journey Think Piece – This paper aims to set out initial thoughts from the college sector around what a potential co-ordinated learning and skills framework could look like. The paper also outlines the potential for a co-ordinated approach to delivery of Modern Apprenticeships (MA), recognising the economies of scale that could be achieved through greater utilisation of the existing resources
- DYW 2nd Annual Report 2015/16 – The second Developing the Young Workforce annual report has been published, setting out last year’s progress of implementing the seven year programme
- SQA – Developing Scotland’s Young Workforce
- Review of Youth Awards in Scotland – The review considered how well youth awards in Scotland collectively contribute to: 1. improved life chances for young people, 2. stronger, more resilient, supportive, influential and inclusive communities and 3. the implementation of Curriculum for Excellence
- Looking at Gender Balance in STEM Subjects – Find useful resources to promote gender equality in STEM as well as key research findings and influencing factors
- Preparing Young People for the Future – Senior phase in Scotland’s colleges – The report seeks to provide direction and support to colleges and their partners involved in delivering the senior phase of CfE, and implementation of the recommendations of Developing the Young Workforce (DYW)
- Foundation Apprenticeships
- Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework
- Equate Scotland
- Princes Trust
- Young Enterprise Scotland
- Scotland’s Enterprising Schools
- Education Scotland DYW Summary Page – Find useful documents and related resources to support practitioners in realising the ambitions around DYW
- Tackling Sectarianism – An overview of resources for staff wishing to use ‘Tackling Sectarianism’ recommended resources