Careers strategy 2023 to 2025

Our vision is for every young person in Lincolnshire to be empowered to have high aspirations and achieve their potential.

Our commitment

There has never been a time when careers guidance has been as important for young people as it is today. At InspireU, we play a critical role in preparing our learners for the next stage of their education or employment and beyond. Our learners will be embarking upon a career pathway. This is more challenging and complex than that faced by previous generations.

Global opportunities and increasing technological advances will result in young people:

• having several careers during their working life
• potentially working in a career that does not currently exist

With the greater choices of education, training and employment, our aim is to:

• prepare learners for these ever-changing opportunities, responsibilities and experiences
• equip them with the skills to manage the choices, changes and transitions ahead of them

Our values

Aims:

At the corporate level, The council has four key priorities which InspireU serve to directly contribute to:

• support high aspirations by offering additional learning options to all and establish high-quality:
  • jobs
  • skills
  • development opportunities
• enable everyone to have the opportunity to enjoy life to the full
• create thriving environments
• provide good quality council services

The work carried out at InspireU is influenced and shaped by:

• the council’s corporate plan
• the GLLEP local skills and strategic plan
• the local skills improvement plan
• Lincolnshire County Council's (LCC) accountability agreement
• LCC's green masterplan
• the local industrial strategy

This is directly linked to our careers programme.

Our key values at InspireU are to be:

• respectful - respect is the foundation on which our college values are based. We promote care, trust and honesty with our learners, their families and, or carers, and all other partners and stakeholders. We encourage learners to have respect for themselves, and show respect to:
  • our environment
  • adults
  • their peers
• ready - ready to learn, ready to listen, ready to participate. Ready to undertake new challenges and be ready to look at career opportunities available to all our learners
• safe - safe in their learning environment, safe with the people around them and safe in the activities in which they are taking part

Vision

Careers provision vision statement:

Our vision is to inspire, inform and raise aspirations of all learners. We will endeavour to guide and prepare every learner. This will ensure that they are workplace ready and successfully progressing into employment, further and,or higher education.