It is our pleasure to write to you as we celebrate the third anniversary of Essex Work Skills. Essex Work Skills was created in 2014 with a simple, yet vital, objective – to help schools and colleges to ‘Prepare their Young People for Work’. We work with students from across…

The extent to which schools used their curriculum to prepare pupils for the world of work was largely dependent on whether school leaders considered it to be a priority…………. This was the first and key message of a report released by Ofsted in December 2016 following inspections of 40 schools…

Building meaningful networks and partnerships with The Careers and Enterprise Company For the past 12 months, Essex Work Skills has been heavily involved with the Careers & Enterprise Company’s Enterprise Adviser Network and has been successfully building productive strategic partnerships between education leaders and volunteers from the business world from…

“We have worked with Mark and Anne on several projects, including our Preparing for Interview programme. Their commitment, professionalism and organisation meant that all 280 of our year 11 students received a high quality interview with a skilled and experienced business interviewer, an experience their feedback confirms they found extremely…