Free Training The Disability Confident scheme supports employers like you to make the most of the talents disabled people can bring to your workplace. As part of promoting this scheme CSW Group in partnership with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are pleased to be able to offer you a free Disability Awareness Session…
Since May 2016 CSW Volunteers has successfully recruited, registered and placed over 200 Somerset volunteers who give their time each month to support services with Somerset Partnership NHS Trust. Research from the Social Care Institute for Excellence describes how loneliness and isolation impact upon quality of life and wellbeing, adversely affecting health. Findings show that…
A national careers strategy and statutory guidance can be key to giving individuals and organisations a clear focus on government policies and priorities. The updated and revised statutory guidance Careers guidance and access for education and training providers January 2018 [1] has been updated to expand on the aim set out in the strategy to…
Wednesday 10th October is World Mental Health Day 2018. Why is this important to us at #Focus5?… According to the World Health Organisation, half of all mental illness begins by the age of 14 with most cases going undetected and untreated. This can affect young people’s ability to fully access education or employment, and that’s where #Focus5comes…
Over the past few weeks our Services To Education Manager; Steph Moore together with her team, has successfully delivered three of our School Enterprise Challenge days. This was to approximately 200 students in the Somerset area ranging from Year 6 through to Year 8. The challenge was to start up a company with the aim…
Our amazing Cornwall staff spent a day recently volunteering with a local environmental charity.
The South West’s largest celebration of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) – The Big Bang Fair South West returned to the University of Exeter
At the exciting awards ceremony held at the NEC, Birmingham on Thursday 16 March, Devonport High School for Girls, Treviglas Community College, Redland Green School and Churchill Academy & Sixth Form have all been recognised for national awards in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) The awards were announced at this year’s Big Bang Science…
Following a number of internal changes here at CSW Group, Investor in Careers can introduce the new team. Verity French will be looking after the Sales & Marketing of IiC, Ed Whitefield leading on the assessments & processes, administration will be ably carried out by Sandy Coggan. The Quality in Careers Consortium have been working…
CSW Group has received £1,706,400 to help some of the South West’s most vulnerable young people make a positive move towards education, employment and training. The new project called #Focus5 will provide in-depth support to young people aged 15-18 across the Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership area. The project is part of…