All-Age Careers Provision in the North East Combined Authority Region - Call for Evidence - Have Your Say!

Introduction

The North East Combined Authority (North East CA) has commissioned an independent research project to build a strong evidence base to co-design an inclusive, all-age careers strategy in the North East. The research will make an important contribution to understanding what more can be done to personalise all-age careers support and improve accessibility.

The purpose of this call for evidence is to gather the views of key stakeholders, partner agencies and providers on their top priorities for innovative careers and employability support for young people and adults in the North East region over the next five years.

HAVE YOUR SAY! Deadline for initial responses 31st August 2025

Your feedback is important and we are grateful to you for taking the time to complete this survey. This should take approximately 10 minutes to complete - thank you! The submissions received by dmh associates will guide the focus on other research activities, such as telephone interviews. This will also inform the conclusions and recommendations in the final report.

The information that you provide will remain anonymous and confidential to the research team.

Should you have any queries about this survey please contact: Robert Hughes (Administrator, dmh associates) - email: admin@dmhassociates.org

To help you answer the questions this is the definition of the term Career Guidance

For the purposes of this survey, the term 'career guidance' includes services which help people of any age to manage their careers and to make the educational, training and occupational choices that are right for them. It helps people to reflect on their ambitions, interests, qualifications, skills and talents and to relate this to relevant opportunities.

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* 1. What is the name of your organisation?

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* 2. In which Local Authority area are you located?

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* 3. Please tick a box from the list of options below which best describes you as a respondent. If you are responding on behalf of an organisation, please make it clear who the organisation represents by selecting the appropriate interest group.

Business representative organisation/trade body

Business

Education Authority

Local Authority

Vocational training provider

Specialist designated institution

FE College

FE sector representative organisation/trade body

FE independent learning provider

Higher Education Institution

FE charitable or not-for-profit learning provider

Other education (please describe)

Trade union or staff association

Charity or social enterprise

Student representative body

Individual

Policy adviser (please specify area of interest)

Other (please describe)

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* 4. What is working well with regards to careers and employability support services for young people and adults in your local area?

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* 5. What is not working well and what are the main reasons for this?

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* 6. What policies and practices are needed to ensure the right model of delivery and timing for careers support for young people and/or adults, who need career guidance most?

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* 7. How can greater priority be given to young people and adults’ views that can feed into the future co-design of an innovative and impactful all-age careers offer in the region?

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* 8. Can you provide a brief example(s) of good/interesting careers and employability support policies and practices in your area (and other parts of the North East region)?

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* 9. What are the barriers or difficulties you consider are getting in the way of young people, particularly those most disadvantaged?

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* 10. Which of the following barriers or difficulties do you consider are getting in the way of adults, particularly disadvantaged adults, engaging in career guidance? Please number your selection in order of priority or importance i.e. 1= top answer and 13 =bottom answer.

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* 11. Other barriers not shown above (Please specify and/or comment)

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* 12. If you would be willing to have a telephone interview with a researcher, please provide your contact information (optional)

Your Name

Name of your organisation

Email Address

Contact Number

Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey.

The information you have provided to us will be held by dmh associates, North Shields.

The results will only be used for the purposes of research to help present evidence on the delivery and provison of all-age careers guidance in the North East CA. The data will be anonymised. Your identity if you choose to disclose this will be kept confidential and will not be passed on to a third party.
If you wish to discuss this further contact: admin@dmhassociates.org
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