EMPLOYERS’ GUIDE Education and employers working together for young people Education and Employers Taskforce

Apprenticeships: This website is helpful for employers looking for apprentices or vice versa. There is a range of information on apprenticeships and a facility for employers to register their apprenticeship vacancies and search for potential apprentices.

Business in the Community (BitC): A business-led charity comprising 700 of the UK's top companies. The Education Team aims to help young people achieve their potential through effective education-business links. It does this by providing an understanding of education, identifying best practice, supporting and developing activities and evaluating impact in enterprise, employability, and leadership and management.

Career Academies UK: Career Academies UK leads and supports a movement of over 700 employers and over 120 schools and colleges, working together to raise the aspirations of 16 to 19-year-olds. Independently recognised for brilliant business and education brokerage, it is the first national organisation to receive the Award for Education Business Excellence.

Citizenship Foundation is an independent education and participation charity with over ten years experience of managing employee volunteering programmes in schools. Businesses can be matched with their local secondary school to support a range of programmes including the Giving Nation Challenge and Lawyers in Schools. The Citizenship Foundation reaches out to over 4,200 schools and 195,000 young people every year with the support of over 1,600 employee volunteers.

CILT: CILT, The National Centre for Languages, works to convince people of all ages, at all stages of learning and in all walks of life, the benefits of learning and using more than one language. CILT supports the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) in implementing policies to improve the teaching and learning of languages and provide independent advice on all aspects of language teaching, learning and use.

Enterprise Education Trust: A national business education and enterprise charity that empowers young people to realise their potential through business and enterprise. The Trust brings together Business Dynamics, the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), Blue Skies and Achievers International, all of which increase students' knowledge of business and improve and develop key employability skills.

Every Child a Reader: This collaboration between charitable trusts, the business sector and the Government aims to secure sustainable investment in early literacy intervention; it also evaluates how and where to provide intensive support in a national context.

Heads, Teachers and Industry (HTI): A not-for-profit social enterprise working in partnership with business, education and Government to develop exceptional leaders in education and enhance the employability of young people. Founded in 1986, 12,000 teachers have taken part in leadership programmes and over eight million students have indirectly derived benefit from their work. HTI is now supported by nearly 200 companies.

The IEBE is the professional body dedicated to promoting the highest standards in education-business partnership work. IEBE is working closely with the Taskforce to ensure that education establishments have access to a high-quality network of brokers who have achieved the Award for Education Business Excellence standard (which recognises Education Business Partnership Organisations' commitment to excellence in connecting employers to schools and colleges).

The National Literacy Trust (NLT): An independent charity that aims to raise literacy standards, the National Literacy Trust provides programmes, information and research to help businesses promote literacy.

The National STEM Centre provides support for STEM teachers and lecturers through its leading role within the government's STEM Programme, and via a large library of teaching and learning resources. The Centre holds the largest accessible collection of such resources in the UK for STEM subjects across the 5-19 age range. These collections include multimedia, print, practical teaching materials, and research publications, many of which are available online via the Centre's fully searchable eLibrary.

School Governors' One-Stop Shop (SGOSS): Recruits skilled volunteers to support schools by becoming school governors. It also acts as a free brokerage service to schools with governor vacancies.

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Network (STEMNET): A UK organisation that promotes science, technology, engineering and maths awareness, especially among young people. It aims to help ensure there is a flow of well-motivated, high-quality people moving from schools into careers using science, technology, engineering and maths, and prepares young people for the technological world they live in.

The Trident Trust: A charity that helps young people develop their employability and enterprise skills. It offers a free matching service, which helps employers become involved in the work placement process.

Young Chamber: simplifies contact between young people and employers in their local area, and provides a direct line of communication between them in a way that is non-prescriptive, student-owned and business-led.

Young Enterprise Offers a range of enterprise-learning solutions, annually reaching over 324,000 students and 5,500 schools and colleges through support from 3,500 businesses. Some offer students the chance to run their own company; others are built around seminars, using games and activities to help students develop skills and capabilities for enterprise, business and the world of work.