The Parent Perspective Amazing Apprenticeships & Not Going To Uni

Rachel Burden is joined by Anna Morrison from Amazing Apprenticeships and, after one year in the job, Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education, Robert Halfon in a special episode to mark the start of National Apprenticeship Week 2024.
Rachel and Anna find out what progress has been made in Robert's first year back in the role, we discuss the latest apprenticeship statistics, how Robert’s team have been widening access to apprenticeships and what we can expect in the next few months.
Plus we check in on a couple of promises made on this podcast last year!
For more information and to access support for you or your child, visit amazingapprenticeships.com.
The Parent Perspective, hosted by BBC presenter Rachel Burden, was created to help parents and carers support their children in making more informed career decisions with greater confidence, knowledge and understanding. 
In each episode we will share your experiences of navigating career conversations with your children and provide insights into how the world of work is changing from trusted experts, organisations and employers already working with young people today. 
If you have any questions that you need answers to, you can join the conversation on social media by following @AmazingAppsUK and @NotGoingToUni and using the hashtag #parentperspective.

In the final episode of this series we’re talking about the green agenda and how apprenticeships - particularly in the trade and engineering sectors - can help us hit our targets and live a little more sustainably.
Rachel Burden is joined by Santina Bunting who, at the age of just 18 is already well into her degree apprenticeship with civil engineering firm ARUP, has been shortlisted for the multicultural apprenticeship awards and won an Institute of Civil Engineering quest scholarship award.
Santina tells Rachel why an engineering apprenticeship was the right route for her as well as why she feels she can be a role model for other young women looking to break into the trades sector.
The Parent Perspective, hosted by BBC presenter Rachel Burden, was created to help parents and carers support their children in making more informed career decisions with greater confidence, knowledge and understanding.
In each episode we will share your experiences of navigating career conversations with your children and provide insights into how the world of work is changing from trusted experts, organisations and employers already working with young people today.
If you have any questions that you need answers to, you can join the conversation on social media by following @AmazingAppsUK and @NotGoingToUni and using the hashtag #parentperspective.
For more information and to access support for you or your child, visit amazingapprenticeships.com.

After looking at options post-16 and post-18, the third of our three special ‘Options October’ episodes is all about showing you - the parents and carers - that apprenticeships are also a positive option for you if you fancy a career change.
Rachel is joined by Karen Cotici, who has left her career in finance to retrain as a nurse, and Marie Doherty, who is the Director of Apprenticeships for School of Nursing and Midwifery at University of Keele.

The Parent Perspective, hosted by BBC presenter Rachel Burden, was created to help parents and carers support their children in making more informed career decisions with greater confidence, knowledge and understanding.
In each episode we will share your experiences of navigating career conversations with your children and provide insights into how the world of work is changing from trusted experts, organisations and employers already working with young people today.
If you have any questions that you need answers to, you can join the conversation on social media by following @AmazingAppsUK and @NotGoingToUni and using the hashtag #parentperspective.
For more information and to access support for you or your child, visit amazingapprenticeships.com.

University, a gap year, an apprenticeship or maybe a job? Just four of the many options facing 18 year olds leaving college. But how can you help your young people make the right decision?
This episode is the second of three in ‘Options October’. Last week we focused on post-16 choices and in the third of the three we'll look at ‘retraining’, but in this episode, it’s all about the options open to young people post-18.
Joining Rachel are Lis Herron, from the National Careers Service, and Jamie Martin, the Partnerships Manager at Not Going To Uni. Lis and Jamie answer questions from Brian Fletcher, whose daughter has just finished Year 13 and is exploring her options.

The Parent Perspective, hosted by BBC presenter Rachel Burden, was created to help parents and carers support their children in making more informed career decisions with greater confidence, knowledge and understanding.
In each episode we will share your experiences of navigating career conversations with your children and provide insights into how the world of work is changing from trusted experts, organisations and employers already working with young people today.
If you have any questions that you need answers to, you can join the conversation on social media by following @AmazingAppsUK and @NotGoingToUni and using the hashtag #parentperspective.
For more information and to access support for you or your child, visit amazingapprenticeships.com.

Have there ever been more options available to a 16 year old leaving school?!
This episode is the first of three in ‘Options October’. In later episodes we’ll focus on post-18 choices and ‘retraining’, but in this episode, it’s all about the options open to young people post-16, after their GCSEs.
Joining Rachel are Lisa Capper MBE, who is the Principal of Stoke-on-Trent College, and Laura Hussey, who is a teacher within DSPL and parent of a Year 11 student and a daughter who’s just left sixth form.
The Parent Perspective, hosted by BBC presenter Rachel Burden, was created to help parents and carers support their children in making more informed career decisions with greater confidence, knowledge and understanding.
In each episode we will share your experiences of navigating career conversations with your children and provide insights into how the world of work is changing from trusted experts, organisations and employers already working with young people today.
If you have any questions that you need answers to, you can join the conversation on social media by following @AmazingAppsUK and @NotGoingToUni and using the hashtag #parentperspective.
For more information and to access support for you or your child, visit amazingapprenticeships.com.

In October 2023, the nation’s number one apprenticeship employer, the British Army, celebrates 100 years of offering apprenticeships - but what does an apprenticeship in the British Army look like? What options are available? And how do you go about getting on an Army apprenticeship?
To answer those questions and plenty more, host Rachel Burden is joined by Colonel Craig Terblanche, who is part of the Education Training Services team in the British Army and Deputy Assistant to the Chief of Staff within Education and Mandy Gregson, whose son Oscar has just graduated from Army Foundation College Harrogate (in August) and has moved into training.
The Parent Perspective, hosted by BBC presenter Rachel Burden, was created to help parents and carers support their children in making more informed career decisions with greater confidence, knowledge and understanding.
In each episode we will share your experiences of navigating career conversations with your children and provide insights into how the world of work is changing from trusted experts, organisations and employers already working with young people today.
If you have any questions that you need answers to, you can join the conversation on social media by following @AmazingAppsUK and @NotGoingToUni and using the hashtag #parentperspective.
For more information and to access support for you or your child, visit amazingapprenticeships.com.