Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) delivers Dorset Careers Hub with funds awarded by the Careers and Enterprise Company (CEC).
The hub aims to connect education and employers to improve careers provision across the county. Our role is to help young people in Dorset progress into promising careers and fulfil their potential.
Dorset LEP are seeking proposals from qualified and experienced organisations to deliver a Work Experience Readiness programme in Dorset. The objective is to research, structure, implement and evidence a work experience delivery model that reflects the principles of the Equalex framework and provides for a progressive, outcome based approach which can be delivered with scale and equity and reaches students who are at risk of missing out.
The programme will engage with a minimum of 20 schools and 20 businesses and organisations, such as SMEs, co-working spaces and BIDs across Dorset to identify how to reduce the barriers faced by young people (in Key Stage 3) living in rural areas, those with additional needs and those disadvantaged and / or at risk of Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) to accessing meaningful and quality work experience. In developing and delivering different types of experience, the delivery partner will evidence programmes that can be scaled up to represent ‘best practice’ for future work experience delivery.
For further information please download a copy of the Tender Document
In order to be considered for selection, proposals to this tender must be received by 31 January 2025 midnight.
If you require clarification or you have any questions please direct these to: dorsetlep@bournemouth.ac.uk