Written by Senior Career Development Consultant, Dr Oliver Jenkin PGCE RCDP The year 2020 has posed unprecedented challenges, both practical and personal, to individuals and businesses globally. No sector has been left untouched by the disruption caused by lockdowns and social distancing measures and, CSW Group, like many other companies in the education and social enterprise…
Written by Sam Ansell, STEM Manager In our last STEM news update we shared that some of our STEM Ambassadors were working on producing short videos to demonstrate what they do for a job and what a typical day looks like. Our first video is now available to watch on our YouTube channel and features…
This autumn saw the launch of our new Community Engagement Adviser team. CEA’s will be community based and will work specifically with young people aged 16 – 19 who are not engaged in education, employment, or training. The new team come from a variety of backgrounds and bring with them a wealth of experience. …
Written for Tristram Hooley, Career Guidance Social Justice David Roe is a manager at CSW Group providing career guidance in the south-west of England. In this post he considers how young people might be making career choices based on their concern for the environment and how, as career guidance professionals, we can (and should!) support…
CSW group is delighted to be a sub-contractor on the new Health Works for Cornwall Programme, a major new ESF DWP programme for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly with investment until December 2023. The programme is led by Cornwall Development Company in partnership with 10 local organisations including CSW Group. It aims to support…
Written by Gina Keith, Corporate Support Assistant Have you heard of National Careers Week? National Careers Week (NCW) is a celebration of careers guidance and free resources in education across the UK. The aim is to provide a focus for careers guidance activity at an important stage in the academic calendar to help support young people…
Written by Sophie Cudsen, Services to Education Team Leader. I joined CSW Group in August 2019 after leaving my previous career in the hospitality sector – 5 years of late nights and weekend work just did not inspire me anymore! I was employed under the role of Project Administrator and given my first task of…
Good News Story from #Focus5 Orrin’s story goes back before the national lockdown, when he was identified as NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training) by CSW Group and consequently referred to #Focus5. Orrin had stopped attending college as the environment was not suitable for him. Orrin has a diagnosis of ADHD and has an…
Earlier this year, CSW Group were delighted to populate our YouTube channel with videos to support and inspire young people and businesses across the UK. Since our YouTube channel began, the world has changed quite a bit, so as we fight this global pandemic we’ve had to adapt which resulted in our webinars series being…
CSW Group were incredibly proud to receive a thank you from Colonel Edward Bolitho OBE, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall, for the contribution that CSW have made to Cornwall during the Covid-19 pandemic and for the work that our team continue to do. Our commissioner, nominated us as she was so impressed with how proactive and…