People 1st

Project Management - Young Apprenticeships and Partnerships (2008-2001)

Pareas Associates provided People 1st, the Sector Skills Council, with project management services for its Young Apprenticeship Programme. We were commissioned to train and co-ordinate a team of assessors and decide on the appropriateness of partnership bids to offer Young Apprenticeships in the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism sector. This involved briefing assessors, co-ordinating the bid allocation, developing review systems, providing results and managing appeals from partnerships.

The Young Apprenticeship programme, which had run for seven years for 14-16-year olds in schools throughout England, closed in early 2011. In March 2011, we completed work with People 1st to support partnerships and answer queries. This also involved checking the status of qualifications with awarding bodies and their ‘Section 96’ funding status, providing information to partnerships and local authorities, running events with partners and maintaining ongoing liaison with them to ensure their development action plans (showing that the conditions of their approval had been met) were being dealt with.

14-19 Agenda 

Pareas Associates was asked by People 1st – the Sector Skills Council – to provide project management services for its review and development of qualifications for the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism sector. This involved considering developments across the UK and the then Government’s four funding pathways as part of the national 14-19 Agenda.

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