Young Workpath and SEND

Young Workpath will offer careers information, advice and guidance to young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) up to the age of 25 and their parents/carers.

All young people with SEND should receive face-to-face careers guidance interviews from a qualified careers adviser. We work with local schools, colleges and other providers to ensure this happens.

Where students have an education, health and care plan (EHCP), our advisers support them from year 9 upwards. Our advisers also liaise with school special education needs coordinators (SENCOs) and other professionals (such as social workers and educational psychologists) to ensure suitable plans are put in place for after year 11 and beyond.

Our advisers attend annual/transitional review meetings for students with EHCPs. We also offer support and advice to parents/carers too for example option choices or career plans.

All our careers advisers work with young people with SEND. In addition, we have two specialist lead advisers who support young people with particularly complex needs.

We help SEND young people with things like:

• making choices about the future
• getting into education (including education, college, university and specialist provision)
• getting into training (including supported internships, study programmes and apprenticeships)
• getting into work (including applications and interviews)
• signposting and referrals to other agencies, where appropriate.

Our centre is fully accessible to wheelchair users.

For more information, please contact us.