The Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (OxLEP) Skills Team brings together a range of services that help Oxfordshire schools to facilitate careers and enterprise education and experiences. Bringing these together to form OxLEP Skills enables us to work in a more joined up way and make best use of our resources to support schools with developing and delivering initiatives.

Below is an outline of the services and what we provide:

Enterprise Co-ordinators

• Your first port of call to discuss ways of developing and extending your careers and enterprise activities and the support available to you
• Manage the Oxfordshire Enterprise Adviser network on behalf of the Careers & Enterprise Company, linking schools with local volunteers from business
• Contact skills@oxfordshirelep.com

Oxfordshire Apprenticeships

• Deliver talks and workshops on Apprenticeships to whole year groups or smaller groups of students
• Attend careers evenings to give talks to and parents and families
• Manage a network of Apprenticeship Ambassadors, who work with us to talk to students about their experiences as an Apprentice
• Advise on employing Apprentices in your school and, if you’re paying the Apprenticeship Levy, help you explore ways of using your funds
• Contact info@oxfordshireapprenticeships.co.uk or for more info visit www.oxfordshireapprenticeships.co.uk

Oxfordshire Work Experience

• Support local schools, colleges and employers with work experience
• Provide an extensive work experience support offer for schools/colleges and make it as easy as possible for employers to get involved with work experience
• Supported over 6000 student placements in the 2015/16 academic year
• Contact OWE@oxfordshirelep.com or for more info visit the Oxfordshire Work Experience pages

During the summer, we’ll be compiling a detailed programme of the services that the OxLEP Skills Team offers to make it easier for you to identify how our team could support your school. We’ll share this with schools in September.