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The Widening Participation Challenge


Widening Participation Matters

Only 7% of the population attend independent schools, but the privately educated account for more than half of the top level of most professions (51% of Medical)

Only a quarter of boys from working-classbackgrounds get middle-class (professional ormanagerial) jobs

Estimate that approximately 30% of current bands 1-4 workforce in the NW doesn’t have a level 2 qualification

8.93 million people of working age are economically inactive in the UK.

Just under 1 million 16-24 year old people unemployed 15% are NEET:

A comprehensive school student with A-level grades BBB for example is likely to perform as well in their university degree as an independent or grammar school student with A-level grades ABB or AAB – i.e. one to two grades higher

This is a gap of 39.9 percentage between A level students from state schools going to most selective universities compared to those who attended independent schools.

http://www.suttontrust.com/news/news/comprehensive-pupils-outperform/



The diversity profile of the current workforce in England is not representative of the general population that it seeks to serve

Only 2.4% of NHS staff have a declared disability compared to 17% in population

The diversity profile of those employed by the NHS is not representative across the key staff groups

Discontinuation rates for male students a third higher for Speech Science, Nursing, Midwifery, and Radiography than compared to females

Approximately a third less students on medical programmes attended a state school compared to students on other healthcare programmes

For some healthcare programmes more black students discontinue their studies compared to students from other ethnic identities



Health: Compelling evidence that work has an inherently beneficial impact on an individual’s state of health – the risk of joblessness

Economic: Better educational attainment, improved employability and earning potential. Improved social mobility and better for UK PLC

Ethical: Significant Social Responsibility Role – NHS organisations a key factor in local economies.

Equality: Access to good jobs depends on merit, not unfair advantage

Cultural Sensitivity: 13 per cent (7.5 million) of the resident population of England and Wales were born outside the UK, compared to 4.3 per cent (1.9 million) in 1951. (India, Poland, Pakistan, Republic of Ireland and Germany). 46% of population change since 2011 due to inward migration.


What is Widening Participation?

Key Principles• A commitment to equity• Raising aspirations• Increasing awareness of education and its

benefits• Enabling fair access to development

opportunities for education, learning, training employment and further career development

• Targeting the increase in education and employment opportunities, particularly for underrepresented groups so that representation in either education or the workforce is representative of the broader population

• Promoting achievement• Supporting progression

Requirements• Recognition that there maybe/ are

inequalities that need to be addressed for social good.

• Active and focused planning.• Commitment and partnership working

between a range of stakeholders at national, regional and local community level to address the issues of concern.

• Further development of policies, strategies, systems and processes to enable fairness and/or appropriate positive action to tackle any inequalities identified.


Inclusion remains an issue

• Snowy white peaks – ‘The depressing fact is that are only 5 BME directors – from 170 NHS organisations. This is about 2.5%, yet 20% of NHS nurses are of black or minority ethnic origin’ Lord Crisp

• decrease in the number of staff from BME backgrounds in senior positions within the NHS. (Kline 2014)

• Inequality and inclusion issues for overseas nurses

• Supportive staff engagement & inclusive approaches have been found to be enablers for predictors of good quality healthcare


The NHS and Widening Participation – Key strategic needs

• NHS needs to be reflective of the community it seeks to serve

• Continued under representation by some equality target groups

• Recognition that access to healthcare professions has improved but progress slow for some professions – Medicine, Sciences

• Importance of Social Mobility increasingly a national and international concern

• Structural, economic and cultural barriers preventing progress

• Range of initiatives in development and place but require further specific application to NHS, Impact assessment.

• NHS needs to punch to its weight


Widening Participation Strategy – key priorities

• Improve monitoring and reporting of widening participation activities: How- baseline on programmes, protocols for data collection, common recording.

• Enhance further the visibility and targeting of Health Careers Information, Advice and Guidance: How: More engagement with schools, partnership organisations such as STEMNET, Career Academies.

• Increase, through research and evaluation, the understanding and evidence of what works

in relation to widening participation developments in healthcare education and workforce development. How: Directory of best practice, evaluation framework, commissioning evaluations.

• Increase collaborative approaches in supporting Outreach Activities: How: Investment, local agreement and partnerships

• Stimulate and increase the capacity of healthcare organisations in being able to expand and support work or work related experience opportunities. How: Work Experience Commitment and Ambassador Commitment

Teachers, Careers Information and

Guidance Advisors,

Employers

Primary and Years 7-9

Years 10 -11 Years 11-13 BeneficiariesAchievers

• Focused network Events,

• CPD• Topical Issues

Webinars• CIAG Toolkit,• Access to

specialist education resources

• Tell the Story

• Hands On Explorations

• Regional events i.e. Big Bang

• Ask the Expert/Guru sessions

• Skill Clubs

• E mentorship

• Visits and Tours• Conference • Regional

events i.e. Big Bang

• Visits and Tours,• Taster Days

Work experience & Volunteering,

• Internships,• Mentorship,• Application &

Interview Support,

• Residential Camps

• Bridging Programmes

• Become an Ambassador

• Become a mentor

Aims of Intervention

Target Groups

Type of Interventions

Partnerships for Delivery

• National Careers NHS Service

• Employers• STEMNET• Further/Higher

Education Providers

• National Skills Academy

• STEMNET• Further/Higher

Education Providers

• Employers• Classroom

Medics-NHS Shows


Education Providers

• Employers• Career

Academies• Classroom

Medics-NHS Shows


Education Providers

• Employers• Third Sector i.e.

Social Mobility Foundation/Sutton Trust

• Career Academies

• STEMNET• National Skills

Academy• Further/Higher

Education Providers

Securing Our Future NHS Workforce: Promoting Ambition & Engaging for Shared Success

Raising Awareness & Capability

Promoting Ambition

Engaging and Nurturing

Supporting for Achievement

SustainingInvolvement


Final thoughts Widening Participation is about …Not setting an impossible task


Final thoughts Widening Participation is about …

Some may have a longer journey to go

Not about giving others more advantage compared to others

All have a right to be there

Fair to make reasonable adjustments

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