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Priorities for Plymouth
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Upskill staff
 
1
   Organise staff reviews, training and development
 
2
   Help staff improve their language, literacy and numeracy and attain at least NVQ2s
 
3
   Encourage staff to train to at least NVQ3
 
4
   Offer apprenticeships and careers to local people
 
5
   Help staff develop by sharing organisational and business skills with community organisations
 
6
   Achieve the national standard for staff training and development – i.e. through Investors in People
 


Inspire young people
 
7
   Give work tasters (in a block or a day a week) to young people (e.g.) over 16, considering a specific career, not in education, work or training, having difficulty finding work
 
8
   Offer work tasters to schoolchildren considering a specific career
 
9
   Work with Social Services to help children in care aspire to work through supported work experience placements
 
10
   Use career days to help young people aspire to local job opportunities/careers
 
11
   Do a careers presentation to a school about what your company’s looking for
 
12
   Spend an hour a week (term-time only) listening and helping children read or do maths in the classroom
 
13
   Support local students by offering awards for educational achievement
 
14
   Offer students project work and resources to relate their studies to the world of work
 
15
   Support a local youth group or organisation
 


Inspire the wider community

 
16
   Let community organisations and suppliers join your internal training events
 
17
   Make people with disabilities aware of the opportunities in your sector
 
18
   Help people engage in a hobby or interest
 
19
   Share senior management experience with a head teacher
 
20
   Organise an activity for a socially-excluded group like older people
 
21
   Become a school governor
 
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