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Careers Advice - Transition Guide

Sheffield City Council Community Youth Services have an Information Advice and Guidance (IAG) Team.  They give careers advice for young people.

As part of this team, there are advisers who go to secondary special schools in Sheffield. They give careers advice for those young people who have an EHC plan from Year 9 to Year 14.

The schools’ advisers go to:

  • Bents Green
  • Talbot
  • Seven Hills
  • Holgate Meadows
  • Heritage Park

Advisers have a set amount of time.  They use this time to go to each school.  They work with the school to agree when they come in to talk to pupils during the school year.

The offer to schools can include:

  • attendance and input of personal careers guidance at EHC Plan annual review meetings. This is from Year 9 through to Year 14
  • personal careers guidance interviews
  • attendance at post-16/parents’ events
  • group work
  • drop-ins

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Mainstream school careers advice

Mainstream schools provide their own careers advice. They have a duty to do this. Please speak to your school or college for further information.

Post 16 Careers Advice

The Community Youth Services IAG Team can also give careers information, advice and guidance to any young person aged 16 - 19 years who has:

  • left school
  • has an EHC plan
  • is Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET)

Mainstream schools and colleges provide careers advice for post 16 students. They have a duty to do this.  Please speak to your school or college for further information.

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  1. Introduction to the Transition Guide
  2. Preparing for Adulthood
  3. Sheffield's Local Offer
  4. What happens and when - Early Years (age 0-4)
  5. What happens and when - Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 (age 5-7)
  6. What happens and when - Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 (age 7-11)
  7. What happens and when - Year 7 and Year 8 (age 11-13)
  8. What happens and when - Year 9 (age 13-14)
  9. What happens and when - Year 10 (age 14-15)
  10. What happens and when - Year 11 (Age 15-16)
  11. What happens and when - Year 12 (age 16-17)
  12. What happens and when - Years 13 and 14 (Age 17-19)
  13. What happens and when - Age 19-25
  14. Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plans - Transition Guide
  15. Education, Employment and Training - GCSEs and Help in Exams - Transition Guide
  16. Post 16 Education - Transition Guide
  17. A Guide to Qualifications at 16+ - Transition Guide
  18. Apprenticeships and Supported Internships - Transition Guide
  19. Things to do when not in college - Transition Guide
  20. University and Higher Education - Transition Guide
  21. Careers Advice - Transition Guide
  22. 1) Help with finding and keeping a job - Transition Guide
  23. 2) Help with finding and keeping a job - Transition Guide
  24. 3) Help with finding and keeping a job - Transition Guide
  25. Leisure - Transition Guide
  26. SEN Transport - Transition Guide
  27. Independent Travel Training
  28. Other Travel Support and useful Apps - Transition Guide
  29. Social Care Services - Transition Guide
  30. Moving from Children’s to Adult Social Care Services - Transition Guide
  31. Paying for adult social care - Transition Guide
  32. Getting a carer’s assessment for your parent/carer - Transition Guide
  33. Short Break Services - Transition Guide
  34. Direct payments for social care services - Transition Guide
  35. Housing - Transition Guide
  36. Decision making and mental capacity - Transition Guide
  37. Transitioning from Children’s Health to Adult Health Services - Transition Guide
  38. Annual Health Checks for people with a learning disability - Transition Guide
  39. Important Local NHS Health Services - Transition Guide
  40. Mental Health Services - Transition Guide
  41. 1) Finance and Benefits: Disability Living Allowance, Direct Payments and Appointeeship - Transition Guide
  42. 2) Finance and Benefits: Universal Credit - Transition Guide
  43. 3) Finance and Benefits: 16 to 19 Bursary Fund - Transition Guide
  44. 4) Finance and Benefits: Banking, Wills and Trusts and Child Benefit - Transition Guide
  45. Further help and support - Transition guide