Research from the Education and Employers Taskforce shows that a young person who has four or more meaningful encounters with an employer is 86% less likely to be unemployed or not in education or training and can earn up to 22% more during their career.

CORNERSTONE EMPLOYERS

Cornerstone Employers are a combination of local and national businesses committed to working with schools and colleges to help create meaningful work encounters and demonstrating thought leadership support to drive other employers and businesses to do the same. This could include providing senior staff to act as Enterprise Advisers, connecting staff volunteers to career activity providers, delivering Continuing Professional Development (CPD) sessions for teachers and collaborating with other businesses to make the greatest possible impact in an area. To date, the CEC has focused this work on the twelve Opportunity Areas.

We have:

• Over 50 employers signed up, ranging from micro-businesses to multinational corporations.
• Support from leading organisations and employer bodies, including Confederation of British Industry (CBI), British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), Business in the Community (BiTC), Institute of Directors (IoD), and Employment Related Services Association (ERSA)

TRIPLE THE NUMBER OF CORNERSTONE EMPLOYERS

The Careers & Enterprise Company is trying to build their network of Cornerstone Employers to 150. They will continue to target opportunity areas but will also look to employers and businesses to make the commitment to becoming a Cornerstone Employer in other areas – for example, those identified as Cold Spots. If you are a business that would like to get involved, please visit: https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/employers/get-involved-business

If you can support Arrow Vale with work experience placements, an external visit, a speaker or workshop, please email us at office@arrowvaleacademy.co.uk