Greater Essex Careers Hub – Teacher Encounters
The Careers Hub have been awarded funding to offer work-place visits to Teachers. Teachers are one of the biggest influencers on young people in terms of future decisions, so this is an exciting opportunity to encourage interest in your business. The Careers Hub are looking for employers to offer one day workplace visits to teachers from schools and colleges across Essex in May-July 2023. You can find out more at Teacher Encounters or you can e-mail the Careers Hub directly.
 

Essex Skills Plan and Careers Magazine now published!
The Essex Skills Plan was recently published and sets out a shared vision and priorities across key stakeholders in Essex. The plan also sets out future growth and priority sectors and proposes a range of actions. One of the issues the plan highlights is a lack of awareness of the opportunities on offer through key sectors locally and range of support on offer. This has led to the development of an Essex Careers magazine, which has now launched. This will be a quarterly publication, for all ages and available via the Essex Opportunities portal. The magazine incudes sector insights, geographical spotlights and signposting for support and further information. The first edition is available to view at essexopportunities.co.uk/essex-careers-magazine/

Southend and Thurrock also have skills plans/strategies being finalised which will feed into the LSIP, along with the Essex Skills Plan.
 

Retrofit Training
Retrofit Training will be offered from Levels 2 – 5 in courses delivered by Adult Community Learning (ACL) in partnership with the Retrofit Academy. You can find out more here.
 

Inclusive Employers Event
The Essex Inclusive Employment Network are hosting an event on 30th March 2023 to help Essex employers in the first steps to ensuring they are fully inclusive. Essex County Council’s Targeted Employment Team are supporting with the event to help employers to explore how they can have a fully representative workforce, recruit good quality, loyal staff and most importantly, support the 5.1% of the population who have Learning Disabilities or Autism into employment. You can access event details here.