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Why Futures, why now?

We know that all schools are serious about priming their students with the essentials to give them the best possible start to their working and adult lives.

At a time of unprecedented youth unemployment, our joint responsibility to equip school leavers with the very best employability skills is more critical than ever.

WHY Futures? Only the best will do...
Futures is committed to improving the prospects of local young people and their families.

We work with you to ensure your students make the most of their lives and progress successfully through education and training into meaningful employment.

Our comprehensive employability package offers everything you need to improve the progression prospects of your students. We use our local knowledge of the social and economic landscape to
tailor packages specifically for your students.

Quality - Trust - Experience - Skills

Local Expertise - Integrated Service


  • We are the ‘National Careers Service’
  • We are Not for Profit
  • Meet new Government requirements
  • Proven local expertise and knowledge
  • NEET – ‘Best in Class’ results in England
  • Large employers use and trust us
  • The Complete Employability Toolkit - integrated progression solutions: guidance, skills days
  • Limited budgets require best value for money from services you know and trust
  • Trained and experienced staff – competent to NVQ level 4 and higher
  • Added value – free events (What Next Fair), free websites, free support
Why NOW?

The Connexions Service closes to schools from April 2012. From then, each school makes its own decisions about what
employability and guidance support to buy.

Other key factors include…
  • High youth unemployment
  • Increases in apprenticeships
  • Employability skills more essential than ever
  • Highly competitive labour market
  • Progression matters for the DfE and parents: attract students with your positive destinations
  • Improve your results: employability skills and awareness enhance engagement and academic achievement
  • Anticipated changes to higher education take up: more job seekers, more guidance
Quality you can rely on

Futures is committed to the principles of quality and continuous improvement. Our expert staff are all professionally qualified, have years of experience and are tuned in to your local delivery needs, all underpinned by:
  • comprehensive training and Continuous Professional Development (CPD) - our staff know about choices, work and careers guidance practice
  • a thorough programme of individual adviser assessments and reviews and
  • extensive professional and online support
Besides developing and delivering our own nationally recognised and applauded Career Mark ‘Careers IAG’ quality standard, we also hold the quality kite marks for:
  • Investors in People
  • MATRIX - IAG Quality Standard
  • The Award for Education Business Excellence
 
Order from Futures not just for value, but for quality you can trust too!

Students with Learning difficulties and disabilities


Many of our activities and products are suitable or can be adapted to meet differentiated needs.
We have expert advisers with the skills and knowledge of working with all students with specific needs and can tailor services to create customised products and activities for young people with learning difficulties and disabilities. Please call us on: 0115 960 1571 to discuss your requirements and arrange a package that suits your young people.