Leicestershire Education Business Company

• We engage tirelessly with our employers to ensure they are available year on year for your learners.

• We work with employers from a vast range of industry sectors, adding large numbers of new employers to the system all year round.

• We employ staff with several years experience of dealing with work experience and they have local knowledge to be able to deal with issues such as work location and travel to work.

• We strive to place learners in their first choice of work experience placement and target placements to learner’s needs taking into account their vocational course and personal requirements/preferences.

• Our specialist extended placements offers the chance to re-engage those that require that additional support.

• We provide full placement details to all young people including working times, dress code, location, description of duties and a learner-specific risk assessment.

• Our opportunities replicate the employment market and enables young people to gain a first hand experience of sourcing and applying for work.

• We fulfill contractual and administrative needs with providers regarding offered and self-arranged work placements.

• We provide clear and professional paperwork for all aspects of managing work experience including agreement forms, teacher visit lists, learner reports, employer reports, induction checklists.

• We issue all participating learners with certificates upon completion of their placement.

• We implement a stringent and robust Health & Safety audit process to safeguard learners and establish the suitability of their placements in good time for your learners. All opportunities (including Self-find placements) are fully checked for Health and Safety and safeguarding.

• Checks are completed by our fully trained, qualified and competent staff. In 2010 we achieved the much coveted LSC learner Health & Safety Management Systems award rated Outstanding.

• We provide a Placement Spares service if the learner cannot attend the placement through no fault of their own.

• Track all placement details including returned confirmation letters from employers.

• We communicate with you regularly and keep you up to date offering the highest level of customer service along the way.

• We provide opportunities for school work experience personnel to meet to share experience on a regular basis, give feedback, receive in-service training where required and contribute to continuous improvement. Our network meeting has received excellent feedback.

In addition we can:

• We can assist with briefing sessions which aim to equip learners with an insight into the knowledge and skills they will develop over their period of work experience and prepare them for the differences between life at school and the world of work.